A LOT of the writers I work with and know wish their process was more efficient.
Sylvie* was frustrated because she had tons of notes all over the place: a million notebooks, notecards, scraps of paper, you name it.
The more we got to talking about her process, it was clear that even though she felt like she * should * digitize her notes or get an app or SOMETHING, the way her brain worked was on paper.
In addition to doing Morning Pages, she just loves taking notes!
We came up with two possible solutions:
Get something like a Remarkable 2, a device that is only for handwriting, but it’s digital, so you can organize your handwritten ideas all in one place.
Only use notebooks with indexes, such as the Leuchtturm. This way, she can index her notes and find them easily by scanning the index itself rather than flipping through the notebook.
Whatever she does, she’s not abandoning her process. Handwriting is how she gets into flow, it’s how ideas come to her and how she naturally organizes them. Rather than throw the baby out with the bathwater, we simply took what’s working for her (handwriting) and eliminating the part that doesn’t (a million notebooks where she can’t find her notes).
