@DIYSara The giveaway ended, but I’ll be doing another one soon! in reply to DIYSara # I love it that I’m starting to get emails from people who need help searching for obscure notebooks– bring it on! # RT @goldspotpens Our contest is still going for the FREE Pelikano Jr’s http://tinyurl.com/qrzwcd # I love the … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-16
Had to repair the spine of my current #Moleskine with electrical tape. It actually blends in pretty well. # @DIYSara I love the new look! in reply to DIYSara # @OfficeSupplyGee Oh we definitely need those in MY office! LOL in reply to OfficeSupplyGee # @OfficeSupplyGee No, really, we use a lot of Tactical Tomahawks … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-09
@nrepose I haven’t started using one on a daily basis yet– I just tried them for the review. I might use the little one for a wine journal. in reply to nrepose # If I owned a stationery store, it would be like an alcoholic owning a bar. # There’s still time to enter the … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-02
4 more new notebooks arrived this week! # Only about 20 pages to go in my current notebook… time to start picking a new one from the stack! # Thanks for all the RTs, @inkophile, @nrepose, @dowdyism, @kookychick, @diysara # Powered by Twitter Tools.
@DIYSara @alpratt I bought some more Uniball Signo RT 0.38s. They are wonderfully fine and smooth! JetPens is wonderful. # anyone else having dreamhost problems? my site is down again… # JenPens order arrived! Lotsa pretty colors… # RT @doanepaper What’s the best spiral bound notebook size? 3×5 and 8.5×11 are my faves. # RT … Continue reading Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-18
I noticed the other day that I seemed to be rampaging through my latest notebook at a faster than usual pace. Have I just had more to write about? More to draw? More things to do and ideas to jot? I’m not sure, but part of the reason is definitely that I copied several pages … Continue reading From Old to New…
I’m coming into the home stretch with my current notebook, an unlined Moleskine. My choices for the next one are: a squared Moleskine an unlined softcover Moleskine an unlined Moleskine Volant a Filofax Each of these would have its advantages and disadvantages. I rather like the squared paper for list-making and doodling, though it can … Continue reading What’s the Next Notebook?
Here’s another amusing item from my childhood collection: This started out as a simple plain notepad, the kind with glued-together pages and a cardboard backing. They came as a pack of 3 that were meant to be separated, but I liked the chunky thickness so I left them all together. I decorated the first page … Continue reading Modified Note Pad
Another notebook that was probably manufactured in the late 1970s to early 1980s: a slim lined memorandum book by the Northern Central Co. of Milwaukee. The cover has a textured fake-leather look, but it’s just glossy card stock, stamped in gold foil. Dig that cool logo on the front! I didn’t use very many pages … Continue reading Memorandum Book Made by Northern Central Co., Milwaukee
Do you have a “system” for using a notebook? A lot of people talk about using notebooks for GTD– the method of organizing tasks promoted by David Allen’s best-selling productivity book Getting Things Done. I’ve had a few different methods of tracking tasks in notebooks and on a computer and PDA, but here’s my current … Continue reading What’s Your System?