Wednesday 22 September 2021

Write It Down, Or You Will Forget!

I need to make notes of things, or they go out of my head. 

Joan Bakewell said she told her novelist friend Malcom Bradbury that she kept forgetting things. 

He replied  "But Joan, you and I have stuffed our brains full throughout our lives, we shouldn't be surprised if some of it begins to fall off the shelf." I find that strangely comforting. 

I'm getting better at using the camera on my phone to note things when I am out and about - the sign outside the charity shop about which items they will/will not accept now. The opening hours of the farm shop. The ISBN of a book in Waterstones which I hope to borrow from the library...

But I still like to physically write it down with a pen or pencil. Somehow the very act of doing that helps fix it in my brain. And I continue to use my filofax [as does Bob] Every couple of weeks we compare our diaries and see what is coming up. Let's be honest, from April onwards last year, the diaries were pretty empty apart from zoom meetings. But things have started to pick up again, and regular groups are restarting..

The chapel where I preached the other Sunday want me to go again in the New Year, we have a family wedding in May...life is starting to get busier. So we have just ordered our refill pages for 2022. 

Ages ago I bought this gorgeous Orla Kiely Gardening Journal [in pristine condition] for £1 in a CS. I'm making diligent notes in there about the raised bed and other plant matters.

There's a chalkboard in the Futility Room for our grocery shopping list.

As long as I don't forget where I put my journal and Filofax, I should be OK!

Yes, I know I could note everything on the computer or my phone, but I like paper!




15 comments:

  1. I, too, am a Filofax fan. Did you know it was invented for the clergy? My 2022 pages came a few weeks ago - and they are filling!

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  2. I was Malcolm's PA in the early 70s. He had a memory like a sieve even then.

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    1. Love how you casually throw that info out there! lol

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    2. A fabulous piece of information. I do enjoy the connections!

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    3. He was a lovely man. Many people around here knew him so it didn't seem casual to me to say it!

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  3. I bought my mother one of those padded notice boards to avoid post it notes being stuck to every wall surface in her house! I love my Filofax!

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  4. I write things down, too, but, on scraps of paper and then, I can't keep track of my scraps of paper! :D

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  5. Physically hand writing things down, on paper, definitely helps me to remember them. Or, at least I remember writing 'something', which prompts me to check my Filofax, I bought my 2022 pages last week! X

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  6. Oh, the video did make laugh. Yes to paper!

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  7. I've taken photos of store signs but there is something about physically writing down information that sends it to the brain (if I remember to write something down 😀)

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    1. Definitely the action helps fix it in the memory

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  8. I have just added the 2022 Moleskin Weekly Planner to my Amazon cart! I need to write it down!
    Love the video.

    Margie from Toronto

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