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# On keeping a notebook for twenty years
- URL: https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/podcast/ep-07-on-keeping-a-notebook-for-twenty-years/
- Published: 2026-05-08T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T20:11:41.000Z
- Description: with Sam Iredale · 1h 19m
- Author: Enova Studio
- Tags: #podcast

Sam Iredale has kept the same kind of notebook since 2005 and has never once used an index. I went in sceptical and came out having changed my own system.

> I do not reread them to find out what happened. I reread them to find out what I kept noticing without meaning to.  
> Sam Iredale

## In this episode

1. 04:15 Why the same notebook, and what happened when it was discontinued.
2. 19:00 One line a day, and the years that are just weather.
3. 35:30 On not indexing, at length and persuasively.
4. 58:00 The entry from 2011 that changed a decision in 2024.
5. 1:11:00 Forty more years.

## Mentioned

- *A Book of One's Own* by Thomas Mallon
- The Rhodia that was discontinued in 2016
- His own shelf of forty-one volumes

Recorded at his kitchen table in Frome, with a dog.