Paper Supplies for Minimalist Home Office
It's 11:27 AM on Saturday morning and I am just finishing up a relatively short Office Organization session. I've gone through my Saturday morning checklist and hit all of the basics. I didn't have enough energy or time to tackle my digital filing system (which is good enough for now) or a deep restructuring and purge of my Gmail labels (which feels like it needs to get done before the end of September), but I did get a small start assembling in one location all of my paper supplies. What do I really need? Maybe next week I will begin to seriously downsize this area (cf. Minimalist Office: Downsizing Supplies and How to Declutter Home Office Supplies). The question I am asking myself right now: do I really need a pocket notebook, or can I make do with the graph-ruled index cards that are my current favorite? Apart from printer paper for the occasional printing job, #10 envelopes with stamps, and hole-punched A5 paper for my password binder, can I simplify my remaining paper notetaking to a graph-ruled pocket notebook? Maybe. Or maybe I don't even need it.
I am running behind this Saturday, so I won't write a new post, just a quick comment. At the end of last week's session, I discovered the hipster PDA concept developed by Merlin Mann back in 2004. I also found a nice dark brown vegan leather index card holder on Amazon from a company called Notsu. I tried the hipster PDA system with graph-ruled index cards and a blue binder clip to help get me through meal planning and grocery shopping this week. It also came in handy for tracking my single strength workout on Monday. On one hand, I am tempted to stay with a hipster PDA and graph-ruled index cards. On the other hand, it might be a good idea to try a graph-ruled pocket notebook to organize a month's or quarter's worth of plant-based nutrition and exercise notes. I am not ready to make a decision, which means I will continue experimenting with the hipster PDA concept for now. Earlier this morning I did manage to zero out my paper and email inboxes and further declutter my paper supplies. Now it's on to weekly planning.
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