Notebooks and platforms
Perfection; notebook, writing app, blog
Field Notes for notes, Writer for writing, Blot for hosting (with a Writer inspired design).
But I’m always looking for perfection—optimisation of my notebooks and platforms.
Field Notes is expensive and embraces seasonal design; but I bought some a while ago, meaning I can’t buy the Moleskine alternative which is somehow hard to find anyway, and Leuchtturm’s simplest version is an expensive pocket Bujo.
Writer feels bloated and not as simple as it used to be; but it still looks good, and the alternatives are worse. I also use it for my blog design, which is hard to depart from.
I worry that I haven’t found the best version of my tools, when I should really just be using them.
Sometimes the ‘use’ of the tool is hardest to grasp. If I found the perfect notebook, writing app, blog host, or computer, what would I actually do with it? If a dog caught a car, what would it do?
My utopia of perfect tools frees me from thinking about the ‘perfect tool’. But then what would I do? This has been my only constant consideration for years. As the world produces tools, I am the one to consider them. This is my job.
Therefore, I am a fool.
The tools were always perfect. I am the one who is imperfect. The tools were already as optimised as they could be. If the goal was consumer optimisation, I would never get there. There’s always a new product for the consumer to try. I am a fool, once again.
If the goal of simplicity is enabling other things, try doing those things first. Focus on the thing, not the tools for it, or the means. If we need more time, what do we need more time for? Why not just do that instead?
Optimisation is a singularity. You can only project optimisation, you cannot wear it.