Journaling appendix

2017-03-26

The basic outline of my current OneNote structure

School
- School years from senior year of high school (2011-2012) to my coterm (2016-2017). Also a section group for college apps.
  - Academic quarters, summers, and long-term
Personal
- General: A catch-all for cool articles I’ve read, people I admire, and things about myself that I’ve noticed
- Daily: My daily journal. A dated page for every day.
- Film: Used to be for making shotlists and links to cool film, photography, and audio technology. Also de-capitalized versions of Film Crit Hulk essays. The pages I usually access nowadays:
  - Ideas: Store images and scenarios that could inspire a film
  - Standup: Observations for when I decide to do standup
  - Video essays: List of YouTube / Vimeo channels that create video essays
  - Animation: Like the Ideas page, but for inspiration that translate better to animation than film (often involves animals, fantasy, or anthropomorphic objects)
- Travel: Things to do for a place I’m about to go to, dream destinations, tips on getting cheap flights, alternative ways to stay somewhere (e.g. Couchsurfing, WWOOF, JET)
- Art:
  - Courier: Fine art, graphic design, product design, quotes about art and artists, etc that resonate with me
  - List of curation sites for graphic design, fine art, web design, photography, etc
  - List of artists that impress me
  - Drawing tutorials and links to drawing books (human proportions, perspective, etc)
  - Costume redesign: Superhero costume redesigns are my jam. It’s a unique design challenge of balancing history, utility, symbolism, and aesthetics.
  - Programming: Tutorial sites, essays about higher-level concepts and principles, useful snippets of code that I’ve used in projects, a mini-Courier for well-designed websites
  - Fashion
    - A mini-Courier for clothing + style
    - Inspiration for things I’d like to make (kimonos, backpacks, etc)
    - Random links and images about hair, shoes, and raw denim jeans
  - Comics
    - List of web comics that I’ve come across
    - Ideas for stories I’d make best suited for the comics format
    - Anonymous indie one-shots that I’ve found that I might not be able to find again online
  - Cooking
    - Recipes, list of food blogs, weird things you can do with food (e.g. golden egg)
  - Video games:
    - Notes on video game design
    - Mini-Courier on ideas I’d like to turn into video games
    - How to make video games
    - Links to video game art books
  - Design annoyances: started off as mini-Courier of poorly-designed objects but now also well-designed objects and broader design articles and resources
  - Random pages about lockpicking, Halloween costume ideas, beekeeping, typography, Bret Victor, etc
  - Music
    - List of songs I like that aren’t on Spotify
    - List of homemade YouTube covers that I like
    - Sketchbook: I was really into writing verses in high school. Lots of couplets and off rhymes. Some freestyles from YouTube comments to hip hop instrumentals
    - Songs I could sample for beats / instrumentals
    - List of songs I could mashup, tabbed riffs and licks
    - Medleys I’ve done
    - Technical setup documentation for Ableton and my recording equipment
    - Poetry that resonated with me
    - Geeky audiophile stuff about headphones
    - Podcast setup stuff
    - Earworms
    - Light show songs
- Connect: Became a catch-all for dealing with people
  - Business ideas
  - Cute things people have done on the Internet to ask someone out or surprise their significant other
  - A couple James Altucher essays
  - Career advice, salary negotiation, etc
  - Notes and cautions about startup life
  - Raw land (that’s a story for another day…)
- Body
  - Workout regimens
  - Nutritional frameworks (IIFYM, intermittent fasting)
  - Martial arts that I’d like to learn
  - Polyphasic sleep
  - Flexibility
  - An essay on Pele
GTD
- Various attempts at to-do list systems