spring-summer 2020 | issue no. 2 | free
Quarantine Diary
2020 IS NOT CANCELED
INSPIRATION DURING AND AFTER QUARANTINE
WE ARE STRONGER WITH THE SUPPORT OF EACH OTHER
Ed i t o r-i n-c h e f Va l e nt y na S o b c hu k
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About me
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It’s a big pleasure to have you here, in my QDiary. y name is Valia and I am a full-time student and aspiring digital content creator. Right now, I am on my way to obtain a master’s degree in Social Media Management at Jagiellonian University. I’m also proud to be a former exchange student at Sorbonne Université (Paris). My passion is creating marketing strategies, digital content and managing brands presence in social media. Beside that, I work and expanding my knowledge in the field of Event Management and Video Production. In everyday life, I am a big fan of personal development, good arabica coffee, and sunrise views. I am also obsessed with the quotes that are my eternal motivation, even on Monday mornings. My favourite one
“We’ll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it”
Once you need any advice about your digital content improvement, or social media growing audience, I will be here for you to help. Feel free to reach me:
@valiasobchuk /valentynasobchuk valiasobchuk@gmail.com
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CONTENT CONTENT
1 Welcome
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Introduction: What is QDiary?
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Get Inspired: 5 Webpages for Your Daily Dose of Inspiration 14
2 Spotify Playlist by QDiary 17 5 Apps Helping Your Health 20 Accessory 2020: Masquerad Moodboard 24
3 #AfterQuarantinePlan templates 26 Books: Summer To-Read List
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Before You Start
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uring a particularly stressful who-knowswhich day of quarantine week full of work, I felt as if I was going crazy, gradually, but surely. With all those endless zoom calls, lack of fresh air and a to-do list, that seemed never-ending, I was close to runaway. But there was a small problem - I’d declared to #stayhome. So as a sign of support, my Mum sent me a photo with a handwritten to-do list that I had made when I was six. All the items mentioned there were so simple: “draw a picture”, “have a walk”, “watch The Little Mermaid” and “clean my table” - but in the end, there was a note: “I did it all”. This naive and, at the same time, very sincere memories inspired me. Besides the fact, that I had quite a careless routine as a kid, I also understood some universal truths. It cleared me up, that life is only as complicated as we want it to be, as overwhelming as we allow it to be. And our success is not measured with what we want to achieve, but what are we doing and achieving day by day on the way to our goals.
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And finally, I found the inspiration to keep going and enjoying life even under certain restrictions and unknowns, cause I was convinced we would come out of the lockdown as different and hopefully better versions of ourself. All those new perspectives and small inspiring tips, I carried into QDiary.
«I was convinced we would come out of the lockdown as better versions of ourselves.»
I am really glad you’ve found this magazine. If you’re here to come up with some new ideas and useful tips, you’re definately in a right place. It is a great pleasure to share my inspirations with you through pages of my Quarantine Diary, which becomes also yours from now on. I hope this issue will inspire you to take a peek back on this quarantine period, to sum up all the changes that have happened to you, and to keep marching forward, more confidently towards new #afterquarantine reality.
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f you’re here now, it means you’re tired of those two or more months of selfisolation, lockdown, COVID-19, and quarantine - all the stuff you probably never experienced or heard about before the winter 2020 happened. While feeling overwhelmed by all the terrifying news, zoom calls, loads of coffee, you’re searching for inspiration, d i f f e r e nt perspectives, a new breath of air. I believe that on the pages of QDiary you will find at least one thing, that will bring a divine creative impulse into your routine and let you get back on track. And you will be ready for your #afterquarantine life. The Quarantine Diary was created for those who are looking for answers to the question of how to get inspiration back while staying surrounded by the same four walls, how to act in post quarantine
reality, or how to wear the most fashionable accessory of the season - a face mask. All the following (and previous) more substantive pages of this magazine will be accompanied withthe photos that were taken by me during those long days of social isolation. They became my visual diary with a lot of stories hidden behind. There is a moodboard collected from the captures of facemasks from all around the Internet. Hopefully, you will take some screenshoots of the pages of this magazine, then don’t hesitate to share them with friends or those, who can take advantage of it as well. You know, sharing is caring. If you have any thoughts or feedback, jokes, or serious propositions after reading QDiary, feel free to share them with me. Without further ado, scroll/ swipe to get inspired and to find something, you’re searching for.
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This small temporal space, that appeared in our life, contains our ugliest and most beautiful experiences, it makes us the protagonist of this pandemic, and gives us the opportunity to look at our life with different eyes, which seemed to really need to stop for a moment to breathe. — Corina Abdulahm Negura
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At the time when our world was turned around, and then it united us with new mindsets, coronamems, toilet paper stocks, and balcony applause for those, who have become our new heroes. We tried to prevent the disease while it was restless, we try to smile, but it’s invisible through the masks...But as long as we support each other, let’s be sure – andrà tutto bene, everything will be good.
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Get Inspired:
5 webpages for your daily dose of inspiration
After staying at home, or somewhere in our comfort zones, it seems that there is nothing else left than Me, myself, and...my computer. And it’s totally normal to NOT be at your most productive during a global pandemic! But let’s be honest, Netflix or constant updating of social media wouldn’t keep your interest forever. So in case you seek for some daily dose of motivation, check this five webpages. I guarantee you, they can become your endless source of inspiration within one click during and after quarantine.
Here you can find the examples of the best websites, that were rewarded by digital design professionals from across the globe. And literally this is a webpage that always leaves me open-mouthed in astonishment! The Awwwards extension for Google Chrome will help you to collect your favorite websites or videos, to do screen captures, and store them in folders of inspirations. awwwards.com
If you’re a big fashion admirer, then there is no better or more aesthetic website for you, then Inside Chanel. This microsite provides you with videos, that look like chapters of the book, about the house’s history and heritage, and chronicles of the people, places, things, and events that have contributed to the success of this iconic fashion brand. inside.chanel.com
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Harvard University or Berkeley University of California, Mandarin language or Biomedical Engineering, Shakespeare’s Life and Work or Big Data in Business - have you ever thought to study that? With nowadays technology that’s possible. eLearning courses inspire and motivate you to obtain a new skill, change your behavior, or improve your performance at work and personal life. Choose your own subject and open a whole new world with www.edx.org
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SHOULDIMAKEFORDINNER Another day when the only restaurant you visit is your kitchen? You run out with ideas of what can appear on your plate? And you ask yourself, again and again, whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner, then this micro-website will generate the perfect answer especially for you: whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com
It’s not a secret that other people inspire us more than anything else, especially when they talk to us from the stage, and behind them, there are three letters: TED. Always inspiring, broadening your horizons, and stimulating to act TED talks. And here you have the instruction: one coffee, one TEdtalk and one page of notes - your perfect recipe for morning inspiration. www.ted.com
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QUARANTINE DIARY PLAYLIST
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A CONSCIOUS APPROACH TO HAIR CARE
anwen.pl
Some coffee for pleasure Some coffee for hair
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*ANWEN Wake It Up – enzymatic coffee shampoo
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5 Apps helping your health IOS edition
Downdog - the only app that helped me become consistent in taking yoga classes every morning. You still don’t believe it’s possible? Thanks to the options of choosing the type, level of advancement, and even savasana time (!), every yoga session feels like it was tailored for you. Namaste.
Goodreads is a social cataloging website that allows you to search freely its database of books, reviews, quotes. Thanks to Goodreads I finally managed my to-read wish-list. However, with so many books to read quarantine probably should never end for me.
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Zero is a beautifully designed tracker used for intermittent fasting. If you have no idea what is that, so there is no better way to figure it out, then just by downloading this app and diving in it.
Research has shown that social connections not only impact your mental health but your physical health as well and increases likelihood of survival. In times of global pandemic, it is a hit the bull’s-eye. And as long Zoom is associated only with long conferences, Houseparty can be your perfect way to strenthen your relations with freinds in a more casual way.
Do not disturb - yes, you’re right, it’s not an app, but it’s an irreplaceable function of your phone on your way to being happy and healthy. Sometimes, not always, but it helps regain freedom of thought and reminds you that there is a world outside your smartphone.
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ACCESSORY MASQUErad Moodboard
@olivier_rousteing
@diana_ft
be posh The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially announced fac masks as a basic and most essential accessory of spring-summer 2020 fashion. @chanelinternational wtvox.com
scmp.com pausemag.co.uk
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RenĂŠ Margritte
be yourself
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@voguemagazine
be unique @ladneu
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#Afterquarantine Plan
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BOOOOOKS GETING THINGS DONE. The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen QUOTE: «Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it’s not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly.» ABOUT: David Allen shares the breakthrough methods for stress-free performance.
REST Why You Get More Done When You Work Less, by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang QUOTE: «If it’s accompanied by freedom, routine can enhance creativity.» ABOUT: Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder
FACTFULNESS Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World –and Why Things are better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling QUOTE: «The world cannot be understood without numbers. But the world cannot be understood with numbers alone.» ABOUT: In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and a man who can make data sing, Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens, and reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective. 28
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BOOOOOKS
WHEN ALL IS SAID Five Toasts, Five People, One Life, by Anne Griffin
VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GR ASS by Lana Del Rey
QUOTE: «I’m here to remember -- all that I have been and all that I will never be again.»
QUOTE: the book will be published in September. ABOUT: A poetry collection featuring «13 longer poems» and several short pieces.
ABOUT: A tale of a single night. The story of a lifetime. Next great Irish novel by Anne Griffin.
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Not a Horoscope On the last pages of magazines usually you can find some predictions of the future based on constellations of stars...I mean horoscope of course. However, in the QDiary I decided instead to attach a different story, also inspired by stars and the universe, but somehow more heartwarming and inspiring. It’s a fragment of a talk An Ode to Living on Earth, given by a visual artist Oliver Jeffers to TED Talks Daily, where he explained in a poetic way, «beautiful, fragile drama of human civilization» and our connections with the universe. You can also listen to his talk at
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arth is pretty great. It’s home to us. And
germs. Those ones take a back seat for the
clusters of stars only make sense from this point of view
time being, because believe it or not, they’re
down here. Their stories only make sense here on Earth.
not the only thing going on.
And only something to us. To people. We are creatures
This planet is also home to cars, brussels
Those pictures we have made up for the
of stories. We are the stories we tell, we’re the stories
sprouts; those weird fish things that have their own
we’re told. (...)
headlights; art, fire, fire extinguishers, laws, pigeons,
bottles of beer, lemons and light bulbs; Pinot noir and
it means the sum total of all knowledge. But when
paracetamol; ghosts, mosquitoes, flamingos, flowers,
said another way, «for all we know,» it means that we
the ukulele, elevators and cats, cat videos, the internet;
do not know at all. This is the beautiful, fragile drama
iron beams, buildings and batteries, all ingenuity and
of civilization. We are the actors and spectators of a
bright ideas, all known life ... and a whole bunch of
cosmic play that means the world to us here, but means
other stuff. It’s my fav orite place, actually. This small
nothing anywhere else. (…)For all the importance in
orb, floating in a cold and lonely part of the cosmos…
the cosmos we believe we hold, we’d have nothing if not
for this Earth. While it would keep happily spinning,
You may think you know this planet Earth, as
«For all we know,» when said as a statement,
you’re from here. But chances are, you probably haven’t
obliviously without us. (...)
thought about the basics in a while.(...) Some things are
really obvious. Like, the planet is made of two parts: land
we look up and out, mostly we look down and in.
and sea. Some less obvious until you think about them.
Looking up and by drawing lines between the lights
Like, time. Things can sometimes move slowly here on
in the sky, we’ve attempted to make sense out of chaos.
Earth. But more often, they move quickly. So use your
Looking down, we’ve drawn lines across the land to
time well, it will be gone before you know it. Or people.
know where we belong and where we don’t. We do
People come in all different shapes, sizes and colors. We
mostly forget that these lines that connect the stars and
may all look different, act different and sound different,
those lines that divide the land live only in our heads.
but don’t be fooled. We are all people.(...)
They, too, are stories.
We carry out our everyday routines and rituals
Seeing anything from a vast enough
On this planet, there are people. Sometimes
distance changes everything, as many astronauts have
experienced. And human eyes have only ever seen
wonderful thing. It looks big, this Earth, but there are
our Earth from as far as the Moon, really. It’s quite a
lots of us on here. Seven and a half billion at last count,
ways further before we get to the edges of our own
with more showing up every day. Even so, there is still
Solar System. And even out to other stars, to the
enough for everyone, if we all share a little. So please, be
constellations. There is actually only one point in the
kind. (...)
Here we are on Earth. And life on Earth is a
entire cosmos that is present in all constellations of stars, and that presence is here, planet Earth.
Good night.
An Ode to Living on Earth, Oliver Jeffers
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pandemic, a long interval where the world has stopped and started to function at a slow pace, we finally paused. But this pause paradoxically becomes an opportunity to finally be able to deal with ourselves.
We found time to read the books, that we are never managed to finish or started something new (like this magazine) or we cooked for our beloved once. We finally appreciate our windows and balconies, which became the safest place to observe the small corners of the world. Terraces from which to peer into the universe, to observe the rising sun, to capture the sunset, and to rediscover the Moon, accompanied by billions of stars. We found ourselves reflecting on our time, on the past and on the future, observing a precipitous past that makes room for a rich and decidedly slower present. And even while we are still writing a hashtag #stayhome under our posts in social media, preparing dalgona coffee, getting ready for another zoom workout session and somewhere in the background we can hear playing Tik Tok “I’m bored in my house, and I’m in the house bored”, we’re not bored anymore. We made friends with boredom and we found that time is not just сontrolled by watch hands, it’s only in our hands. Now, after having read the QDiary, I hope you have a bunch of useful hacks to survive the rest of quarantine time and you also have your own #afterquarantine vision of how you want your life to look like. You are not afraid of the future. You are inspired. You can start living your best NOW, cause who knows what 2020 is still preparing for us. xoxo, Valia
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the end or maybe the beginning...
