Ioana

22 y/o blogger, brand marketer, daydreamer, cafe-hopper.

Philosophy: seize the day.
Idea-seeker.

creativity

journaling & balance

lifestyle

productivity

videos
Writing 50k words in ONE month: National Novel Writing Month 2022 Prep Vlog + Goal Setting + Events
I’m participating in NaNoWriMo this year! National Novel Writing Month is a worldwide, virtual writing event during the month of November during which hundreds of thousands of people around the world set one goal for themselves: to write 50,000 words (a novel) in a month. That’s 1,667 every day. I first did Camp NaNoWriMo twice…

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Literary Commentary
“Company” on Broadway in NYC
We decided to make our first night in New York City a Broadway night. I’m so glad we ended up choosing the musical “Company”… it completely blew me away! The story opens on the 35th birthday of Bobby, a bachelorette whose friends are all married…

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academia

academic

productivity
what it means to be your own friend (feat. my last bathroom selfie in Goodes Hall)
Earlier today I took what will likely be my last bathroom selfie in Goodes Hall. (Hopefully in equal part because I’ll grow out of it and because I’m about to graduate from undergrad. 😋) Isn’t it an amazing feeling to be fascinated by an area…

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books

Literary Commentary
book review || The Course of Love by Alain de Botton
I started off really liking this book, and to be fair by the end I still feel that there were some great messages. What intrigued me the most was the start, which refreshingly challenges our obsession with how two people “fall in love” rather than…

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academia

academic

Law

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☕ 3: Tenant fixtures and other things I think about on a Friday night
…like the fact that I’m graduating in 6 weeks! Idea Café is an email newsletter from Mistral Spirit sent straight to your inbox (mostly) every second Sunday. If you love it, consider checking out the Mistral Spirit YouTube channel for more organization strategies, joining the book club, and sharing…

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books

Literary Commentary
Normal People
It’s been a while since I’ve read or seen something that I genuinely can’t stop thinking about. I finished watching Normal People (the TV show) last week and on the surface, it was a decent show with some strange parts. But somewhere beneath that, it…

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academia

digital organization
first thoughts on the Supernote A5 X digital note taking e-ink device
We’ve got a new digital note-taking gadget in the house! It’s a second-hand Supernote my boyfriend got to streamline his many stacks of engineering notes. There are plenty of great online articles to learn more from, but in essence it’s a device that uses e-ink…

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journaling & balance

Literary Commentary

Psychology

the idea café newsletter
☕ 2: Writing is an act of ego: the problem with Atomic Habits and why I’m giving it 2 stars
This post first featured in my bi-weekly Sunday newsletter, Idea Café on January 24, 2022. Find out more about Idea Café and read the archives here. I’ll be discontinuing the classic WordPress blog updates today, so please make sure you’re subscribed to my new list…

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digital organization

note taking

organization

videos
a complete digital system for uni organization: OneNote + Todoist + notebook | get organized with me
My completely DIGITAL organization system for the final semester of my undergraduate university degree (Commerce at Queen’s University) combines all the studying strategies I’ve learned since my first year! The organization tools I use are: OneNote for note-taking, Google Calendar which synchronizes with Todoist for…

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