A Lawyer’s Guide To Bullet Journaling For Greater Productivity

I’m at the point in my life where I have to write everything down to remember it, and I mean everything. I could say that aging caused this need, but if I’m honest, I probably should have been writing things down a long time ago.

Scientifically speaking, there are many benefits to writing beyond recording information.  When we write things down, encoding occurs. Encoding is a biological process by which the things we perceive are analyzed in our brain’s hippocampus.  The act of writing by hand improves the encoding process in such a way that we have a much better chance of remembering and understanding the information we write down.  

As legal professionals, we have lots of things to remember and write down all the time. For me, that meant that I used to write things everywhere. I had a notepad by the phone for notes from phone calls. I kept my to-do list in a separate planner, and any random ideas went on the notes app on my phone, on the back of an envelope, or on any other scrap pape…