| You can adapt it. If the digital writings are incomplete and you still need to work with them, you can print them out and put them in the bins to work with later. (You can cut the printouts into paragraphs or other smaller chunks to work with them in the bins, by combining the pieces with other jots. And if they are related to or could be used with more than one project, just print out more copies.) Likewise, if the digital files are ideas that you capture to Notion (for example) only when your notebook is unavailable, then you simply remember to print out whatever you have to "update" your bin whenever you start working with that project again. Still, if you're only capturing digitally because you don't have your notebook with you, then learning to capture each idea on its own paper and sorting into bins later may obviate the need to capture into the digital format at all, and you can do almost anything on paper as you apparently desire to. But if the idea is that you capture on paper and then import into the digital realm to work with everything there, then just use the bins to capture the discrete ideas into what are effectively multiple inboxes, and then periodically import all the jots in a particular bin into the digital project at once (by scanning/OCR, dictating, or typing into whatever system you use, such as Notion). From your original post I gathered that you were capturing and working on paper (and preferred to do so, perhaps publishing or storing final drafts digitally) — and I figured that, at least while drafting, you wanted everything in one place, such that not having your working notebook would throw a wrench into the system. That was one of the same problems I had. Moving to my current system solved that issue. One hitch is figuring out how to regularly "visit" or process each bin. Another is figuring out where and how to store your bins. So just keep those points in mind. |