Journaling & Field Notes

9 Ways to Fill Your Marikina Field Notes

Not sure what to do with a blank notebook? Here are nine ways people use the Marikina Field Notes, from café logs to a year of small noticings.

A new notebook can be intimidating. Here are nine ways to use up a Marikina Field Notes, or any small notebook, without overthinking it.

1. The café log. One page per coffee shop. Order, price, seat, verdict. Work your way through the Marikina coffee shop directory one barangay at a time. Full method in our coffee journal guide.
2. The one-line-a-day. A single sentence every evening.
3. The walk book. Only write in it while walking around Marikina. Nothing from home, nothing from work.
4. The meetup book. Bring it to every hangout and ask each person to write or draw one thing.
5. The bad-experiences book. Worst coffee, strangest dessert, most awkward hangout. The welcome letter inside practically asks for this.
6. The food diary. Not calories. Just what you ate and whether you would eat it again.
7. The sketch log. One small drawing per page. Cups, signs, shoes, trees.
8. The gift. Fill the first three pages with your own favourite Marikina spots, then give the rest to a friend.
9. The reading log. A page per book: title, where you read it, one sentence you liked. Take it to a book café or a silent book club.

Whichever you choose, write the date on every entry. Future you will be grateful.

When you fill a page you like, post it and tag @marikinafieldnotes with #MarikinaFieldNotes. We are a small studio and we read everything.