Bookshelf
At Analog Office World Headquarters, we like to read about:
- working and thinking and playing with paper
- organizing information that is stored on paper
- alternative analog strategies to handle common tasks
- how our tech and our tools shape us
- office machines
- organizing physical offices with old school office supplies
Here’s a partial list of favorites. (Click on the image to learn more about the book.)
Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind
by Dan Charnas
The Future Is Analog
by David Sax
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto
by Jaron Lanier
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think
by Laura Vanderkam
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
by Annie Murphy Paul
The Accidental Diarist
by Molly A. McCarthy
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information
by Jillian M. Hess
The Organised Writer
by Antony Johnston
Breathing In, Breathing Out: Keeping a Writer's Notebook
by Ralph Fletcher
The Paper Solution
by Lisa Woodruff
24/6
by Tiffany Shlain
Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
by John McPhee
Improve Your Handwriting
by Rosemary Sassoon
Syllabus
by Lynda Barry
Leave Me Alone with the Recipes: The Life, Art, and Cookbook of Cipe Pineles
by Cipe Pineles
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
by Cal Newport
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
by Annie Murphy Paul
The Revenge of Analog
by David Sax
The Lost Art of Handwriting
by Brenna Jordan
Draw Your Day
by Samantha Dion Baker
In Case You Get Hit by a Bus
by Abby Schneiderman
Organizing Solutions for People with ADHD, 2nd Edition-Revised and Updated
by Susan C Pinsky
The Bullet Journal Method
by Ryder Carroll
A World Without Email
by Cal Newport
What It Is
by Lynda Barry
Conquering Chronic Disorganization
by Judith Kolberg
Typewriter Century
by Martyn Lyons
The Typewriter Revolution
by Richard Polt
Getting Things Done
by David Allen
The Myth of the Paperless Office
by Abigail J. Sellen
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier