I was excited to find this, since speedskating is one of my favorite parts of the Winter Olympics: Shani Davis keeps notebooks! Since 2004, he has kept meticulous journals, recording his lap times in training and the smallest details on race days, from what he ate for breakfast to the condition of the ice to [...]
Only 9 more shopping days til Christmas! Notebooks can make gifts for pretty much anyone, but here’s a few ideas for when you’re trying to find something just right! For someone crafty, how about the Stitchable Journal: Personalized Journal & Decorative Keepsake Box– it comes in a kit with yarn and needles that allow you [...]
Here’s a use for notebooks I hadn’t considered: documenting martial arts information. On the Martial Arts Planet forums, Shadowfax asks: How many of you keep a journal or notebook about your art(s)? I’ve been keeping a journal with diagrams showing various forms, especial fine details, notes from seminars, thoughts about sparing matches, and so on. [...]
What would you expect to find in Jack Kerouac’s notebooks? Probably not this: Jack Kerouac — Mr. On the Road, the King of the Beats, who begat the beatniks who begat the hippies who begat the hipsters — Jack Kerouac, the fountainhead of cool — that Jack Kerouac was obsessed with — guess what. Freedom? [...]
A notebook for baseball season! The green-covered CVS-brand notebook sits deep in Daniel Murphy’s locker at the Mets’ spring training site, Tradition Field. The notebook has been places, though. And like the Mets’ 23-year-old leftfielder, it seems to be going places, too. Murphy bought the notebook in October in Arizona when he played in the [...]
I love finding articles where people from all walks of life talk about using notebooks. It’s way too easy to find writers talking about using notebooks– that gets really boring after a while, so I was happy to come across this article, an interview with Lowell Cohn of the Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, CA, [...]
