Thread by @raulpacheco

People often ask me “what kind of notes do you write in your Everything Notebook?”

These notes in loose pieces of paper give me an opportunity to answer.

I often draft abstracts by hand and then type them.

I also like to consider and reflect on how my writing is connected.

I had made a resolution to write and publish more stuff on the politics and geographies of waste. To do that, I reflected on what I had researched and how my different strands of work connected with each other.

These are draft notes. I can do one of two things:

1) staple these pages into my Everything Notebook in my 2020 section “Discards and Waste Studies”

2) transcribe my abstracts and notes (instead of stapling)

In this case I find it’s better for me to finish drafting my papers and their linkages and THEN transcribe onto EN.

Here is an example of how I use my draft notes to make a cleaner copy (yes I know I made a mistake - I was multitasking) in my Everything Notebook.

You can see that as I transcribed I recalled other work I have coauthored (w/ @KateParizeau and w/@kmoneill2530)

Once I have mapped out my writing commitments on waste and discards for the year, I start mapping a sub-Publications Planner (specific to the topic).

This is important because the cells I fill out in this draft in my Everything Notebook land in the digital version.

I fully admit that I write by hand and that I draw my tables by hand as well. I have done that since grade school, and it’s worked wonders for me.

A lot of people work digitally. You’re welcome to adapt my methods to the digital realm!!

Designing and implementing a Publications Planner raulpacheco.org/2016/06/design…

In one of my previous tweest, I explained that I write a sub-Publications Planner (per topic) that I integrate into my global one. Here's how I write the latter.