"Why do I keep a notebook at all?"

Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? Why do I keep a notebook at all? It is easy to deceive oneself on all those scores.

WHY NOTEBOOKS?

Major reasons:

• Reduce Repeated Thinking


• Prevent Lost Porgress


• Observe Mind

Minor reasons:

• Storage and Retrieval


• Living Strategicly

Since the note is in my notebook, it presumably has some meaning to me.

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly com pulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only acciden tally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.