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In 2021 I had a grand vision to get better at noticing the passage of time by writing it down every time A Thing Happened. I sort of mixed together personal items, news items, and the Meme Of The Day. If it was a thing that was all I thought about that day, it went in the journal. If there wasn't anything, I defaulted to what felt like the biggest headline. I fell off it completely by July because I got hyperfocused on writing a webnovel (lmfao). Part of the problem was my dumbass little collages. They took too long, I had to get on a computer and print a bunch of stuff, I'd procrastinate and then not do it. So this year I bought a bluetooth thermal printer and a few rolls of sticker paper.  It only does black and white, but it greatly simplifies the process.  I also designed a sticker for myself as a reading tracker.  So far the only thing I've been able to use to write on the stickers without smearing is permanent marker. It's a downside but I can't draw or do cute spreads so making stickers is about where I'm at. I also have what I call The List, which isn't organized in any way and isn't even dated, it's just a constant rolling list of poo poo I want to write down. I like an A6 notebook because I have a knockoff Hobonichi Techo wallet that holds an A6 perfectly, letting my keep my weird book of stickers on me at all times.
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Mar 24, 2022 00:47
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It was, time really flies. Even without the full year, going back and looking at the months I actually filled out is a wild ride of "I forgot that happened" and "how was that a year ago, that feels like last week" and "oh no, foreshadowing". The printer I got is the Phomemo M02, but I often regret not paying the extra for the higher resolution printer. I have to print larger than I'd like for text to come out legibly, which takes up valuable sticker space.
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Mar 24, 2022 02:09
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The ability to print sickos stickers on demand was well worth the price of admission, tbqh. So far I've tried colored pencils (super faint), Papermate felt-tip pens (smudged no matter how long I waited), and Sharpies (takes a minute to dry but is fine after that). I haven't even bothered trying with my fountain pens, I feel like those would smudge for sure if even a regular felt-tip marker isn't cutting it. I don't know if they sell a version of the sticker paper that isn't glossy/actively resistant to being inked. Considering the texture of most receipts, it might just be an inherent property of thermal printing.
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Mar 24, 2022 04:45
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Your washi tape is So. Good. I am jealous.  I've thought about getting an Instax printer or similar, printing things out with The Big Printer was a pain but I do miss having actual color and higher resolution. Part of it was that I always felt obligated to wait until I had enough images to fill up a US Letter-sized page to minimize waste, whereas with the little printer I can just print any little thing that strikes my fancy one at a time. I actually also have a small handheld printer that could work in theory, but it ran out of blue for some mysterious reason and getting it to print correctly is a chore anyway. Maybe I'll give it another go, though. It might save some of the thickness these many, many stickers are adding. God. Why do I own so many novelty printers.
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Mar 24, 2022 14:17
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I've just been using Phomemo's refills, but I think anything that comes in a roll with a width of 50mm or less would work. I just haven't found any in the right size that are cheaper than the 'official' ones. Most alternate brands seem to come in 57mm, so maybe I would have been better off getting the PeriPage since it also has the benefit of looking like a bear  Even the versions of the Phomemo that don't come with bundled paper come with a small roll, which is enough to get a feel for it. I waited to buy more because if I was just going to play with it once and put it in a drawer I didn't need more than what came with it for that.
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Mar 24, 2022 18:49
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There's a weird thing where bullet journals were intended to offer more flexibility than a planner, but then so many people made big elaborate spreads that they lost all that flexibility and now some folks are selling printable spreads which are. Fundamentally indistinguishable from a planner. Aside from maybe a more artsy aesthetic, or a focus on things that wouldn't necessarily show up in a traditional planner (book and habit trackers, etc). But I say that as someone who uses printable planner pages for work, and a bullet journal for my personal life, because they serve very different functions in my brain.
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Jun 18, 2022 04:40
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Common alternatives to binders I've seen are discbound planners (I use one of these) and those little... six ring ones? I feel like they're ripping off a specific planner. Yeah I just looked it up and it's Filofax. There's a ton of A6 six-ring planner covers out there, I experimented with one for a little while but I found a half-letter discbound planner worked best for my printable needs.
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