On keeping a notebook for twenty years
with Sam Iredale · 1h 19m
Enova Studio
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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
- 04:15 Why the same notebook, and what happened when it was discontinued.
- 19:00 One line a day, and the years that are just weather.
- 35:30 On not indexing, at length and persuasively.
- 58:00 The entry from 2011 that changed a decision in 2024.
- 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.
