Best Self Journal

[theverdictis]

Hey,

 

Was wondering if anyone has come across this company?

 

https://bestself.co/

 

Have seen them advertised on Facebook and looking on their website it seems like a cool goal tracker. Just wondered if anyone has used one of these? Are they any good? Do they work well with Fountain Pens?

 

Cheers.

 

Ben

[inkstainedruth]

No clue. They seem pretty pricy, and don't seem to have useful info such as how many pages there are.

I don't think they're going to give my Miquelrius journals (300 pages for about $15, depend on where you get them) a lot of competition.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[bogiesan]

Tightly restrictive and focused on someone’s secular time management theory. Looks like over-designed silliness to me.

 

There is nothing in a notebook’s layout that can possibly influence your ability to achieve your goals. success requires discipline and the skills to do a specific job. A notebook’s layout and design might help, sure, but a $2.00 spiral jotter can do the same thing as this overachiever. Just look up bullet journaling (the original, not the current rave) to see how a simple system might help someone with their job or personal goals.

 

I used Franklin Dayplanner’s paper-based goal-setting system for three decades. I enjoyed the system tremendously but, in the big picture, the influence of the paper organization and forward-looking planning tools on my projects was largely intangible. My achievements and failures were all my own.

[Cocobird]

I'm enjoying my InkWell Press planner. It has good goal setting ideas -- i use yearly, monthly and weekly goals to stay on track. It also has wonderful 140 gsm paper that my fountain pens love.

 

I began with Franklin Quest years ago. Their class was very helpful and I was hooked on the important, for me, of setting goals.

[akrohn2010]

I think that some people thrive on the structure that planners, calendars, or journals like this might provide. I haven't tried one, so no idea if they work well with fountain pens, sorry that I can't answer the OP's question.

 

I'd agree that for me a journal like this would not be useful, but it might be to someone else. Learning how to quantify, specify, or set goals can be difficult for some without exercises and prompts. For others, a blank piece of paper is more useful.