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State of Desk – October 2022
Writing with: Annastasia: I have many lovely pens but I was grateful for a cheap promotional pen! Out and about, I needed to make notes and my phone was almost out of battery. This pen and the back of a flyer did the job. Time to start carrying a pen and mini notebook...
I don’t want to panic anyone…
Happy official start of the spooky season! At Ink Drops Towers we’re part snuggling into autumn (which has meant sampling white hot chocolate and everything gingerbread we can get our hands on) and part getting ready for 2023. We don’t want to panic, but even if...
October’s Organisation Tips
Prepare for the festive season It'll be here before you know it so begin thinking about what you're doing it. Where are you spending it? Who do you need to buy gifts for? What will you eat? Even starting a brain dump that you can add to over the next week or so is a...
An Envelope of Snippets #42
Here's your roundup of links, distractions and things to ponder! Will stamps turn into barcodes? Good question This interesting piece on the arrival fallacy has got us thinking about celebrating micro-wins and also what we can do to avoid when/if happiness projections...
State Of Desk – September 2022
Writing with: Annastasia: an Ooly fountain pen I’m testing for the Ink Drops shop. It writes so nicely! I really hope we can stock them and for the record, I’m holding onto this one indefinitely. Carla: Too. Many. Pens. I thought I’d Marie Kondo my pens, pencils and...
It’s the most stationery-ful time of the year!
Autumn is one of stationery’s natural seasons and we absolutely love seeing new pens and notebooks in every direction. Its as much a marker of seasonal change as slightly cooler evenings and looking out for the first orange leaf. This summer was about taking it easy...
September’s Organisation Tips
Do a brain dump Take a least 10 minutes over a cuppa to write down everything that is floating around your head. Then pull out the tasks that need doing straight away. As for the others work out which ones you might do before December and those which hold the seeds of...
Discovering Job List Zero
It happens. Your job list gets so out of control that job list zero is the only answer. We’ve all heard of inbox zero. Let me introduce job list zero. It started out with a really busy few months. Lots of things to fit in every day and not enough time to do...
Do you need a summer bucket list?
Making a summer bucket list is a pretty standard thing for a blog post to suggest. And it’s a great idea in theory. It’s a way of encouraging yourself to do something out of your usual routine. It’ll make this the summer that you get tickets for that show, go to that...
Organisational Tips for May
Rejig your job list How do you organise tasks on your job list? It's time to revisit your approach and see if there is a method that would work better for you. Review your task batching technique. Having gone through a phase of scheduling every task for a specific...
State of Desk #5
Writing with: Annastasia: My lovely Bookaroo ballpoint which has a good weight in my hand, writes in black ink and has a green barrel that looks seriously good against the marble cover of my Passion Planner. Carla: I’ve gone all sensible and ordered hybrid ink refills...
An Envelope of Snippets #41
We all want to relax more right? The problem is actually doing it. I love this list of 83 ideas for rest and relaxation because they're organised by how much time you have. I think I might make a cheat sheet so that I have a menu to pick from. Here's another list that...