My System for Analog and Digital Knowledge Management

I love having a physical notebook as I have grown from being a writer and performer into a multimedia artist, a relatively new development. I also appreciate the ability to collect ephemera within them. A loose piece of paper in a box, a receipt, a ticket, a photo, a card or letter from a friend, is easy to lose and without context. I tape and glue ephemera that is not more openly displayed or hung up into notebooks to contextualize moments, create a visual timeline of my life, and connect the dots between time, space, events, and my thoughts and ideas.

That said, notebooks themselves fee somewhat ephemeral. When one is done, I move onto the next. I don't usually review the notebook for a year or so, after which I review my old paper notebooks and annotate them.

When it comes to ongoing projects, lessons learned, and connecting ideas over different eras that can't be contained to one notebook, I love Obsidian.

Paper Notebooks

• Notes on the go
• Ephemera
• Paintings and small art projects
• Newspaper clippings

Obsidian

• Process notes
• Guides for specific supplies
• Building on bigger ideas
• Musical tabs

I'd like to find a good system of including photos of relevant notebook spreads, and including a sort of alt text for them so they are searchable and indexable.

Created: 2025-10-12T12:20:29.032-06:00
Last Edited: 2025-10-12T12:33:24.505-06:00