Hasta La Ideas

One of the main goals of Unclutterer, apart from helping readers lead a more organized and streamlined life, is to help you create long-lasting change in your routines, habits, and life. Many of our articles revisit similar themes so that you can keep moving forward with your goals, revising what you are doing well, and identify when you need a course correction.

In my case, I am trying to merge my work and home life personalities. At work, I am decisive, productive, proactive, and passionate. At home, I never make decisions, ignore projects, react before thinking, and live with neither ups nor downs.

As regular readers know, I’ve been using the Bullet Journal system to transfer my work personality to my home one. And while the system has helped me keep my head above water during a stressful period at work, I’ve let my passivity to life stay in control and have pretty much converted my Bullet Journal into a solely work-related tracking system.

So, something needs to be done, and I think I’ve found the trick: the Moleskine app for my iPad Pro. One of the reasons I’ve let the personal life slide is because the work list was taking up a full page, leaving me with no room to add personal stuff and I refused to have a single day in two different pages in my Moleskine notebook. An excuse?tag=unclutterer-20 Totally! But it was enough to derail me.

However, with the Moleskine app (available for iOS) I can have multiple notebooks and yet have only one item to carry. The app is free if you want the basic notebooks of Weekly Planner, Plain Paper, Lined Paper, and Grid Paper. You can buy other notebooks for Photos, Recipe Tracker, Travel Journal, and Wine Journal, but for now I have no interest in those ones. If you are an avid cook, travel writer, or wine lover, these journals might come in handy for organizing your thoughts.

By using the app, I’ve created five different journals:

• Weekly Planner: to schedule my days and know what’s coming up. This planner looks into the future and includes both work and home.
• Work Journal: to organize all my work-related tasks. I love the color and pen thickness options in the app and can keep track of all my tasks and priorities in a vibrant, colorful way.
• Home Journal: to keep my personal-related actions, desires, and ideas front and center. This journal is copied from my work one and will hopefully, over time, instill my home personality with the more active traits from my work personality.
• Connection Journal: to remind myself to connect with my social circles. As an introvert, I could easily go through a week only talking with work mates, but friends and family need to be taken care of or they won’t be there when my introverted self decides it wants company.
• Time Tracker: to make sure I take time for myself each day. I can easily be busy, busy, busy, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to sleep without taking even 15 minutes to read, write some fiction, or just stare at the ceiling. This journal looks at what has actually happened each day and serves as a good reminder that without personal time, I will burn out completely and start cutting myself off from the rest of the world, which is the exact opposite of my goal.

Wait a second… Five different journals? Isn’t that a lot of work?

Yes, it is, but the changes I want to make in my life are big and doing any less has proved too easy for my (nearly) 50 years of habits to take control and derail my plans.

I love my iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil — it’s the closest I’ve ever seen to a digital notebook, and now that I can use my favorite notebooks in digital format, I couldn’t be happier. Productivity and perseverance thanks to technology.

What changes are you trying to make in your life? Are you aware of any slips? What are you doing to correct them and maintain momentum?

Post written by Alex Fayle

A good idea can save a species! What you’re looking at above is a remarkable replica of a sea turtle egg. Why would one need to make a replica of an egg? Well…

Sea turtles are facing a massive poaching problem. Already having to deal with our polluted oceans, most sea turtle species are hunted for their shells, their meat, and the eggs (which are considered an aphrodisiac and a delicacy in some culture). The Investeggator (love the name!) is a sea turtle egg replica, designed to absolutely match its texture, feel, appearance, dimensions, and weight of real sea turtle eggs. However, this 3D printed egg is fitted with a GPS, and is placed in the nests of sea turtles. The GPS in the decoy egg helps track the batch of eggs in case they get illegally poached by humans. The GPS helps lead organizations to the poachers directly, thanks to a rather clever idea, 3D printing, and some pretty basic technology, and in turn helps save not just one, but multiple species of sea turtle… for in the words of Dr. Seuss, “And the turtles of course… all turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be”.

Designer: Paso Pacifico Conservación

Le photographe urbain Lukasz Palka vit au Japon depuis 2009. Fasciné par l’ambiance frénétique de Tokyo, sa série « L’Appel du Vide » tente de capturer l’intensité et le chaos de la ville par le haut. Prises de hauteurs vertigineuses, ces photographies nous offrent une vue différente sur Tokyo, nous amenant à imaginer les histoires passionnantes et variées qui se déroulent dans les rues ci-dessous. Plus d’images sur Instagram.

Dans son studio basé à Brooklyn, Daniel Michalik fabrique des meubles à base de liège. L’amour du designer pour ce matériau l’a conduit au lancement d’une collection de chaises et de tabourets faits mains. Le liège est un matériau malléable et durable qui permet à Daniel Michalik de créer des produits écologiques.

The Senior Manager of Design Insights contributes to REI’s success by enabling our design teams to gain an accurate and deep intuitive understanding of consumers and their relationships with our products. By fostering a connection between the design team and our consumers, we are able to identify new product opportunities and enhance current product experiences. Models and acts in accordance with REI’s guiding values and mission.

View the full design job here