This article seems more about logging what you do, not about buying a physical notebook. The medium chosen is irrelevant without a system. I know plenty of people at work who keep all of their notes on random notebooks, but they're not at all organized. Some of them quite literally just turn to the first clean sheet of paper within the notebook to jot down notes about the program they're working on, the meeting they were just in, their grocery shopping list, etc. If I ask them about it an hour later they will spend a few minutes flipping through the notebook to find it, if they find it.
By contrast, I keep a daily log of everything I'm working on with a series of time-stamped Notepad files in a "Work Logs" folder on my work laptop. That's the system I developed after about two weeks working here, and four years later I can still open up stuff from 2011 if I need to. The fact that it's in plain text makes it easy to search through the directory as well for words or phrases.
I'm not saying my method is better than what the author has chosen, it works for me. It could easily be an Evernote notebook if I felt like it, provided that there was some organization method. That is its functional value. Everything else that the article seems to dwell on--tactile feedback, "mindfulness", the tangible growth of the journal as you fill out more pages--these all seem geared towards simply making you feel productive rather than actually be productive.
By contrast, I keep a daily log of everything I'm working on with a series of time-stamped Notepad files in a "Work Logs" folder on my work laptop. That's the system I developed after about two weeks working here, and four years later I can still open up stuff from 2011 if I need to. The fact that it's in plain text makes it easy to search through the directory as well for words or phrases.
I'm not saying my method is better than what the author has chosen, it works for me. It could easily be an Evernote notebook if I felt like it, provided that there was some organization method. That is its functional value. Everything else that the article seems to dwell on--tactile feedback, "mindfulness", the tangible growth of the journal as you fill out more pages--these all seem geared towards simply making you feel productive rather than actually be productive.