Self-inking date stamp
Rubber stamp with adjustable bands that prints the day's date on a page
Rotating rubber bands for day, month and year, reinked by a pad built into the body. Libraries and offices ran on them for decades. Notebook and index-card keepers use one to date a page without writing the date. It sounds trivial. What keeps the habit going is that it takes a second and stays legible for years.
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Austin KleonDoes it
Writer and artist · Steal Like an Artist
Keeps a big heavy Trodat professional model on the analog desk. Newsletter readers already know how much he likes date stamps, he says, and part of the appeal of this one is the satisfying noise it makes.
Source: AustinKleon.com: Studio gear
Aimed at the same thing
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- Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.On record from 6 of 62 tracked people: 6 do it
- Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.
Standing desk
A desk that raises, so part of the working day happens on your feet
On record from 4 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it, 1 recommends it - Gear$$$Mid: Roughly $50 to $500, or up to $50/month.On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it
- Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Paper notebook
A bound notebook for thinking on paper away from a screen
On record from 3 of 62 tracked people: 3 do it - Gear$$$Cheap: Roughly under $50, or under $15/month.
Phone lockbox
A lockable box with a timer that puts the phone out of reach for a set period
On record from 2 of 62 tracked people: 2 do it - Gear$$$Expensive: Several hundred dollars and up.On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 does it
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