What is a Meta-Notebook?

And how does it boost writing and self-knowledge?

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I’m an avid notetaker. And I keep three kinds of notebooks.

The first is the journal for freewriting whenever I feel like untangling my thoughts. I usually don’t know what I’ll arrive at after a period of freewriting. This makes writing, for me, a process of self-discovery.