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What is David’s Day?

David’s Day is my way of keeping up to date with the essential things in my life by utilising Bullet Points to help keep track.

Initially, I used an old site called Bulleted to replace all my previous blog attempts. These include websites such as I’m Doing, Jottings, David’s XYZ and, last but not least, Totally Bollocks. However, I switched all of these onto David’s XYZ. Disbanded Bulleted and replaced it with David’s Day.

Some of the below will be updated shortly as it was written for another website.

While creating past websites, I often used bullet points. Having looked and found that the domain Bulleted (dot UK) was available, I bought it. With my new website installed, I had to decide how I wanted to use it and what for. Is it a blog about my life; or another test website? Or could it be something else? So I started to look at how bullet points were used elsewhere. Anyhow, it’s a long story, and all you need to know is we are now here on David’s Day.

I like the work of the web designer Rafal Tomal and have often used his colour schemes in the past. I noticed that he recently changed his website links from green to yellow. Yellow and black were once the colours of an old business of mine, so I decided I would copy him… I hope he doesn’t mind.

A few days later, while browsing a Waterstones shop window, I noticed a book entitled “The Bullet Journal® Method.” On flicking through the pages, it wasn’t the content that struck me; but the colour scheme. Yellow and black. So I bought it.

Bullet points are often used for note-taking or creating lists and are commonly used to highlight the significant parts of a given text. In reality, bullet points can be used for almost anything.

With David’s Day, I was going to create notes using the common old bullet point. However, after reading Ryder Carroll’s “The Bullet Journal® Method,” I have decided to try and create an online notebook for myself, using some, but not all, of his principles. After all, to get the most out of bullet journaling, it is best to write your tasks, notes & events down on paper. The book will explain why. Find out more about the book “Bullet Journal” on the Bullet Journal website.

Another thing I have been interested in and have worked on in the past is live blogging. During the building of David’s Day, I thought about integrating this. In effect, I could create, let’s say, an event and draw through any notes made about that event onto its post page. By reversing the natural direction of the posts, i.e. from descending to ascending, they would sit in a more logical timeline for that event. Traditionally a live blog would have the latest post at the top. But these posts are there to remind me as much as to give information out to others.