The Dash-Plus system
In Hyde's latest Over/Under with Ellane I went down a rabbit hole and found her post about the Dash-Plus system for analog notes. It's a slight modification from the "original" description.
The reason for her preference of this system:
With standard Bullet Journal bullets, one must either determine the note type before writing, or write notes first and add symbols later.
I've been using my own version of Bullet Journal notation for many years; I don't use the same method that Ryder Carroll suggests. I would say mine is simplified. I wrote about my method a while back. (Coincidentally, that post was also inspired by Hyde.)
The Dash-Plus system looked intriguing and Ellane presented it as a more robust method of note taking for events / future events. I decided to implement it for a week, diving in completely. I used it for my work notebook as well as my bullet journal. I wrote down a table on one of my pages so I could refer back to it. The plan was to use it for a week to evaluate it.
Unfortunately it's not for me. I wanted to give it a chance, I really did; four days is not enough to run it through the paces, because it's a new process and I knew I'd need to get used to breaking muscle memory.
It's not that I can't get around the muscle memory issue, I just don't like the aesthetics of it. It also seems more complex to me and I don't need to introduce complexity to an already-simple journal. Maybe if I was using this for bigger projects (I'm always amazed at how many things people have on the go when they show off their journals), it might be more useful.
After today I'm going back to my usual methods.
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