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What’s Your Core Note-Taking System?

Posted on January 28, 2024January 28, 2024 by Emily Hokett

Necessary Components and Workflow.  The information that we collect, organize, and review represents our journey across time. Our notes form our written history. Note-taking strategies help us learn and retain new information, remember previous information from the past, and grow

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Literary Therapy, This is What Got Me Through This Year And Will Get Me Through the Next And the Next…

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Emily Hokett

Writing, Reflection, Refocusing, and Next Steps.

writing blogging, creativity, focus, habits, health, journaling, mental health, reading, self-care, sleep, wellness, writing Leave a comment

Creativity Drivers, Workflows, and Cycles for My Writing Habit

Posted on May 28, 2023May 28, 2023 by Emily Hokett

A brief series on why And How I write. Notes This blog series developed from several influences. A few of them include: Mason Currey, Octavia Butler, Austin Kleon, Langston Hughes, and Hugh MacLeod. I posted a couple of other tiny

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My Current Writing Habit, A Little Every Single Day

Posted on May 27, 2023May 27, 2023 by Emily Hokett

What motivates you to write? There are only a couple of creative habits that I try to practice every day. Writing is both of them. In the mornings, I journal. Lately, I’ve also been taking time to read and write

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Solving Creativity Issues is Rarely an External Endeavor

Posted on May 27, 2023May 27, 2023 by Emily Hokett

Personal meditations on tools for creativity, productivity, and time. I wanted a new device, a new app, a new something. I had fallen prey to a common productivity trap, looking for a new tool to solve all of my problems.

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Handwriting In Goodnotes: A Tool For Reading, Research, and Journaling

Posted on January 14, 2023 by Emily Hokett

A Three Part Note-Taking Series Note-taking is fun. Most of my writing starts as a note somewhere. It might originate from my academic work or my morning journaling. These notes often form the basis of long-form, polished writing (e.g., manuscripts,

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The Case For Apple Notes, A Reference Material and Writing Workflow

Posted on December 3, 2022December 3, 2022 by Emily Hokett

You can certainly “just use Apple Notes” for internet-based referencing and writing. Here are some practical use cases. There’s a lot of talk about tools and note-taking in the creativity space. In effect, tools are just tools. They may help

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