I decided I didn’t have the patience to try making notes on my phone – that on screen keyboard is a little too small for accurate notes (especially when the auto-correct doesn’t understand plant names!)

Me too!

Being able to scribble down a note while you’re in the garden, rather than having to wait until you’re back indoors with non-muddy hands, definitely encourages me to make more notes, although I still admit there’s some things I should be noting down (like how certain plants are fairing), that I haven’t done!

hehe I did wonder if anyone thought it should be “stationary”!
I did try a clicky pencil like that before, but mine broke and all the ‘lead’ pieces fell out of it, so I figured I was better off with a standard pencil.

I’ve done the ‘notes piled up in various places’ way of being ‘organised’ before – I’m still finding some scraps of paper with random notes scrawled on now! The worst thing is when I’d written write things down in a form of short hand, thinking “I’ll remember what that means” then haven’t a clue what I’m referring to when I look back at it ages later.

Just as long as I can keep it going for the year, and not find the notes fizzle out in May!

I can imagine that’s a bit of a disadvantage when the diaries are all full of notes for plants that ‘disappeared’ over time!