3 Reasons Zen-Journal Should Be One Your Notebook for Everything

THE MORE MINDFUL PLANNING SYSTEM FOR PEN AND PAPER

Forget Separate Notebooks

Some analog planning proponents suggest that you have one notebook for professional life and another for your personal life. At Zen-Journal, where redundancy is nearly always viewed as a negative, there are advantages to having one notebook for your one life.

Exception: Unless you work for a government agency or hold a job that’s tied to a security clearance, one notebook is all you need, and here is why.

1. You have only one life

The caveat above aside, most of us need only one notebook to manage our one life. That’s because our life is the whole and the professionals and personal aspects of our life are subsets of that life.

Having a notebook for work planning and one for personal planning is redundant and similar to carrying two wallets. You don’t one driving license for work and another for grocery shopping or taking the kids to soccer practice. We have one life and therefore splitting our life across two notebooks is like trying to serve two masters… it can b…