Journaling appendix

2017-03-26

    The basic outline of my current OneNote structure

    1. 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
    2. 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
    3. GTD
      • Various attempts at to-do list systems