Knowledge Base and Journal Iconography

What’s Here

Some folk use icons in their organizers to help with visual cuing. This page contains a number of folks approaches to organizer iconography.

KemoNine

Ir use a pretty straight forward set of icons that’s minimal but insightful.

Agendus

• Train: outing / trip / etc
• Radiation: Critical
• Flag: important
• Helicopter: in-progress
• None: n/a, no special status

Rose, Thorn, Bud

Rose: 🌹

Thorn: 🥀

Bud: 🌻

‘Her Doing’ Ideas / Suggestions

Attribution

Attribution goes to Her Doing. They sent a great breakdown on how they use icons and emoji to help organize notes, journal entries and more. This approach allows for easier searches and visualization of information.

The below is a lightly edited transcript of the information they provided and approved for publishing.

General Icons

On icons, I have all the ones in my journal template (💛 for small good things, etc.), but I also have a list that can be scattered anywhere and I might want to find later, or I want to keep track of.

Such as 🌿 Dates [redacted] cut the lawn (so I know when, how often, and what the final total will be) 📙 Book recommendations 📚 Book finished. 😊 🍽️ Ate at least one good meal 👣 Walked for at least fifteen minutes 🏋️‍♀️ Exercised (other than walking) at least fifteen minutes 🤝 Reached out to at least one other person 📁 Do one thing your future self will thank you for 📖 Read for at least fifteen minutes 📻 Listened to a podcast 🤔 Studied at least fifteen minutes 📯 Played with a hobby for at least fifteen minutes 🛠️ Wrote for at least fifteen minutes 🪥 Basic personal hygiene 🧹 Basic house hygiene 🌜 Lights out by 10.00 pm

(I have never accomplished all of these in one day. I’m not sure I have ever accomplished half in one day. Some I have never accomplished. But it is still useful to be aware of just how much I am or am not doing something. 😄)

Journal Icons

My daily journal has sections: 💛 Small good things at the very top. 🥰 💭 Daily thoughts - whatever is going on / I want to write about. 💡 Daily inspiration - quotes, ideas, book snippets - anything that made me stop and think, and especially that I will want to remember and/or build on 🌱 Story ideas - I write, so whenever I have an idea, I jot down here as quickly as I can, plus any details, backstory, possible directions it can take, whatever. It’s nice for me to know when I had the idea and possibly what inspired it. This is only meant to be a paragraph or so. Sometimes I will write two or three pages - when that happens, I copy & paste it into a document, delete everything but the first paragraph (so I have a basic idea) and link to the full document. This is supposed to be my journal, so just the idea is enough - but I haven’t lost anything. 🛐 I pray for people & this is where I record for whom and for what (and updates and answers)

Additional Thoughts

I really wanted to make them easy to understand and remember - and some were tricky to develop - reading, book recommendations, and books finished, for example!

I already had the seedling for my story ideas and then months later the lawn-mowing thing came up & I had to keep track of that - and there is no lawn mower icon. 😄

Walking is what I am most likely to do - but I wanted another for anything else, whether inside (like yoga) or outside (swimming or going to a gym), so I wanted to acknowledge / keep track of both.

(I have never done yoga, nor am I a gym member - I am trying to think ahead to future needs & scenarios.)

Some of the others - reading, writing, playing with a hobby, listening to a podcast - these were all things that make up a good day for me. If I haven’t done one or two, then hopefully it was because I had a good day filled with the others.

They are NOT a goal to reach - as I said, I have never done all of these in one day, and rarely even half. It’s more of a record of the good ways I spend my days - kind of like your rose/thorn/bud idea.

And maybe it will change seasonally. Maybe in summer I will spend my days walking and in winter with yoga. Or I’ll know if I spent a lot of time listening to podcasts, maybe it was a time I didn’t have the spoons / strength to do anything else - and that’s okay. I am still finding ways to be as active physically and mentally as I can be. 💪 🥰