Create an Index

Paper organizers can be a headache, because it’s hard to know what’s where. (Damn! What did I do with that list of billion-dollar startup ideas?) The Bullet Journal solves that with index pages at the front; Carroll suggests allocating four pages, or two spreads, per notebook. Each time you make an entry—a new week’s worth of personal appointments, stuff to finish in April, Books I Want to Read, cutting rejoinders to that sarcastic colleague, notes from a Tim Ferris talk—you write it in the index with the corresponding page number.