Notebook Addict of the Week: Emmanuel

This week’s addict has a habit of filling Moleskine and Rhodia notebooks. Look at these nice stacks!

The Moleskine stack is pretty impressive given that he says he remembers first holding a Moleskine in his hands in January 2012. The Rhodias are from 2003-2006. Emmanuel says he wrote the first book in French about the “Quantified Self” philosophy, which involves keeping track of a lot of personal data– that’s what filled up all those Rhodias!

But I liked his thoughts below:

J’aime ce travail d’écriture, mi manuel mi intellectuel, quand la pensée se met peu à peu en formes, quand les idées s’inscrivent dans la matière par le contact physique entre la main, le stylo, le feuille… Et puis de temps en temps ça repose des écrans !

I translate it roughly as “I love the work of writing, half manual, half intellectual, when thought little by little takes form, when ideas are inscribed materially by the physical contact between the hand, the pen, the page… and then from time to time this rest from screens!”

Read more (in French) at webusage.net: Les tours de carnets, après Rhodia vint Moleskine.

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