He was in the habit of filling notebooks with ideas - one of which was spawned by the fact that in his New York apartment was a laundry room which he would never let his wife enter alone.
At some point, around the age of 16, Mr. Sacks began a lifelong habit of keeping notebooks on his walks, wherever they led him, and sketching and writing about what he saw — "to capture," as he said, "what otherwise might be fugitive in experience".
Either way, writing at the same time every day can help to make keeping a notebook a habit - resulting in writing in it often.
For the past ten years or so, I've made it a habit to carry a small notebook in my front pocket.
By David Sedaris For the past ten years or so, I've made it a habit to carry a small notebook in my front pocket.
Use your second notebook.
In Kishinev he wandered around his rooms naked, wore baggy Turkish pantaloons, and developed his habit of writing in bed, a notebook propped on his knees.
Make your lab notebook entries a compulsive habit.
Along the way, he picked up the habit of scribbling down ideas in notebooks, which piled up in the basement of his house.
Borrow an idea on changing habits from Ben Franklin: carry a small notebook and give yourself a black mark each time you catch yourself picking your nose.
