Editing The Pen Addict 378/transcript (section)

== Navigation Marking Systems ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I have a different way of fixing this problem because we can't put a ribbon in this book. Right. So for me to put a ribbon in, I have to make a new completely new format. I don't want to do that, but I have a different plan, which I'll share with you later because I don't want to talk about it now in case they can't do it. Sure. But I have a different plan and I think I can fix it. But it's just a different way to mark the pages.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I have two index cards in mind right now. One on my journal pages and one on my daily pages.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. So like I say you can use I encourage people to get bookmarks. I don't use bookmarks and I'm fine just looking through the pages to grab it. But I know it needs some kind of marking system and I think I've worked it out. But we are confirming if they can do it. But it's not going to be in the next set because we're having to reprint this one again for the holidays. Right. And so I'm hoping Q2 will be version two of the book.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. Okay. Cool. So like I mean that's easy. Like I mean not everyone wants it but like it really the way it's designed it calls for that type of thing. I agree. Secondly so it's designed for a quarter of the year essentially 90 days of the daily journal which I think is the right size. Like I wouldn't want like a full year single book. The confusion I have and you kind of alluded to it and answer to this before is I have 90 days of the journal pages. But I have what's essentially 192 days of the daily themes. Right. This is the thing that people bring up a lot.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So here's the thing with that. I just put as many pages as I could put in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There isn't really a match between the two. So there's 90 days of journaling. There's more than 90 days of habit tracking. Right. Because I was my thinking was well why don't I just put in as many pages as I can put in. And this seems to be like a sticking point for people but I kind of just shoved as many pages as I could get in there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I think that needs to be cut in half. And then so that's eight pages give you 96 days if you keep 12 on a page. I'm not going to keep 12 on a page. That I'm going to fix. Okay. Because people also don't like that there's 12 on a page. Because that's a different math too. Yeah. And then eight pages of notes. Like why don't I have pages that I don't have to commit to my day to keep notes in. Like if I had that split in half to where my daily habits are ballpark based on formatting the same amount of days as my journal. Otherwise I have eight wasted days. I know you said people might use them for separate projects or things like that. But for me and I would wager the majority if they use one column a day they're going to end up with eight pages they cannot use. And there just be blank circle pages instead of why can't there just be blank dot pages for notes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I will say to you now that I love that idea. I will not confirm anything but I like what you're saying. What I want to do is get 14 days on the daily theme pages. Yeah. So you've got two weeks. Right. I think you can. Because that is like a number or I might do 15. So it could do three weeks if you're tracking on a day. Because the way I don't do this is the weekend. Right. Gotcha. So it would be probably 14 or 15. So I'll be making a change from 12. But then I need to like make it fit. Right. Like I've got to make it fit. So I'll probably make all the circles a bit smaller. Again, none of what I'm saying here are promises. Sure. I just want to make this very clear. Right. Like. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I assumed the things that I'm saying have come up already. I just. We don't talk about it. Nor do I like hear the feedback. Yeah. Or the discussions on Cortex. Bits and bobs. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' People have had like. I've got a lot of feedback where like people get super confused. Like they get hung up on the fact that the journals and theme numbers are different. I understand that like. But I kind of my thinking was just like. Well, I've got the pages. Let me just put them in. I haven't thought about maybe just doing blank note pages. But. And I like that. That's. That is a solution that I have not considered yet.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Because based on the numbers. I. There's eight pages in this notebook that are unusable. Well. There's eight. Eight pages of circles left. Well, the way I'm using it. Right. And everyone's use case is different. But if they were just a blank note page, then I could choose to use them more than I can write on a page with a bunch of circles on it. So that's actually my main feedback. Like I don't have anything like awful. I like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That is a good solution to that problem.