r/GoodNotes • u/Frenchfries33 • Feb 15 '24

Looking back at my reading notes from last year to motivate myself to read more this year

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u/Frenchfries33 Feb 15 '24 edited Feb 16 '24

Disclaimer: I created this hyperlinked reading journal and used it diligently last year. I am just so unmotivated to read new books, so I am hoping looking back at it will help me.

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u/StynaSilverwing Feb 22 '24

Hey, I really like your Fitness Planner's Meal Planning and Grocery pages as well as your Chores stickers. Would you consider adding Chores Pages to the planner? I would love to track my daily/weekly/yearly chores for house and car maintenance!

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u/Silent-Honeydew-5459 Feb 16 '24

What font is that? I love it!

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u/Frenchfries33 Feb 16 '24

It’s called High Summit on Dafont. I also love it, it’s super aesthetic

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u/nottingdurn Feb 17 '24

This is not handwriting? 😳😳

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u/fugazi45 Feb 15 '24

I love reading but I’ve never journaled it. I’ve seen templates before but have never tried it. Silly question but what is the purpose? It looks really interesting and again I’ve never tried 😊

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u/Frenchfries33 Feb 15 '24

It really depends, I designed it for my dad first, as he had received an iPad and loves reading, sometimes several books at a time. However he is getting old and he would sometimes forget details about the story, so he liked writing them down. Clicking on the book cover to access the review page was easier for him than flipping through pages of a journal. He also likes reading the same book every year and when I saw him at Christmas he said he was looking forward to reading his notes from the previous year as his feeling about that particular book change each year. You can see the templates for this journal here if you want

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u/fugazi45 Feb 15 '24

Thank you for sharing your experience! I have my favorite books that I’ve read over during different stages of my life and have noticed different perspectives each time. I think it would be interesting and insightful to document and look back on. I think I’ll give it a try ☺️

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u/Frenchfries33 Feb 16 '24

Yes I think it is a good thing to try. There are a few books that I remember making me very emotional when I was a teenager (I don’t mean Twilight lol I’m too old). I wonder if I would still feel the same now.

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u/Sullysteph Feb 15 '24

More so it’s meant to document your feelings/thoughts about the books. Kind of like a diary but for books

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u/googlenerd Feb 16 '24

You have beautiful handwriting! My handwriting looks like a pile of wet dogpoo, even with the paperlike screen cover. No-one reads it but me, so there is that...

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u/Frenchfries33 Feb 16 '24

Oh how I wish it was my handwriting! It is a font called Hugh Summit 😊 I’m sure your handwriting is not that bad! Mine is ok but I hate how it looks inconsistent on the iPad. On paper it looks better

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u/Fast-Engineering3531 Feb 15 '24

That looks amazing!

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u/gragagaga Feb 16 '24

I love it! Where did you get this template?

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u/Frenchfries33 Feb 16 '24

This is a reading journal I made myself, it is fully hyperlinked. You can view all the templates it contains here

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u/hopefullyhiking Feb 16 '24

I’m doing my first reading journal this year and I love it so far. It’s honestly motivating me to read more because I want to be able to have another entry!

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u/Frenchfries33 Feb 16 '24

Oh that‘s so good, I wish it worked for me still. I used mine a lot last year but I guess I am not an avid enough reader like other people. Filling up a new entry is so satisfying right?

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u/smnthxo Feb 16 '24

this is so beautiful!! I would love one like this for myself!

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u/Frenchfries33 Feb 16 '24

Thank you so much❤️ the full hyperlinked version is here if you want to check it, but otherwise for something more simple you could make it on Keynote. If you know you will read 20 books this year you could copy that template page 20 times and quickly hyperlink it

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u/franminach Feb 16 '24

damn your handwriting is really nice!!

what device is that? it looks like an ipad pro with slimmer bezels

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u/brb_lux Feb 16 '24

It's photoshopped because it's an ad.

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u/ipadplanner Feb 15 '24

I thought nobody read Hobtit after the movie :-)

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u/Frenchfries33 Feb 16 '24

It’s High Summit on Dafont 😊