The Midwest Journaler

About life in the Midwest for a pen maker and user.

What is the Purpose of Journaling?

By Ken / January 7, 2025

What is the purpose of journaling? We all may have our own reason, or even a few. Is it to keep a record of what happened in the past? Or to make a plan for the future? Or do we want to just make sense of the present? I don’t write a lot about the […]

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Why Pens?

By Ken / October 14, 2023

About six years ago I decided to organize my life. That’s an important task and I wanted to do it right, so I really did my homework. Ryder Carroll’s Bullet Journal and David Allen’s Getting Things Done were two styles that rose to the top of my list. I finally settled on a hybrid of the two which I still use.

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