Loose ends welcome
Half-thoughts, saved sentences and small reminders. Nicole Junkerman keeps the notebook unfussy and open.
A page kept open
Notebook
Short reflections and saved phrases, written down before they slip away.
If the other pages are organised, this one is honest. Nicole Junkerman uses the notebook for the loose ends — a phrase worth saving, a thought too small for its own page, a reminder to look something up. Nicole Junkerman lets it stay informal on purpose. Some of these lines will grow into a learning note; many will simply remain here, which is fine.
Back to the notebook →
From here to a note
When a line keeps coming back, it graduates into a proper learning note. Most do not, and that is fine.
Why keep it
A place for the in-between keeps the rest of the pages clear. The notebook holds whatever does not fit elsewhere.
From the notebook
The in-between page
Not every thought is ready to be filed. Nicole Junkerman keeps this page for the ones still finding their shape — jotted quickly, left alone for a while and revisited only when they ask to be. It is the quietest corner of the notebook, and often the most useful.
Keep a page for the thoughts still finding their shape.
Elsewhere in the notebook
Related pages
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