I decided to keep a journal after listening to Jerry Pournelle talk about his life logs. He kept track of the daily weather, phone calls and meetings, food he ate, conversations he had, ideas that popped into his head, projects that were underway, how he felt, etc…
This was going to be a lifelong project, so I bought some notebooks. I wanted a really nice notebook. Then I bought some really great pens. I wanted to see if I liked writing with space pens, or gel ink, or pencil, or fountain pen. Of course different paper is more or less suited to certain types of pens so I had to do a lot of experimenting.
Then I thought how cool it would be if my book was digital and I could paste images and audio and also search it. So I bought a couple of iPads and an Apple Pencil.
Then I thought that I don’t want this trapped in Apple’s walled garden, so now I’m building an application that I can run in the cloud. I want to get this right, so I’m planning it carefully. I’m going to need some notebooks and pens to work on the design of this thing, so I’m back to ordering pads and pens again.
