Comments on: Moleskine Art http://lavonardo.net/blog/2008/04/24/moleskine-art/ The life and times of a fallen hacker Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:04:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: lavonardo http://lavonardo.net/blog/2008/04/24/moleskine-art/#comment-210 lavonardo Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:53:07 +0000 http://lavonardo.net/blog/?p=489#comment-210 I use the Moleskines in two distinct fashions. The plain traditional A6 is carried all over in the side pocket of my backpack, and serves as the place to jot down ideas on whatever. Only occasionally I use dedicated pages (or double pages) for a given topic, usually the text just flows freely. But having such a constant location for a specific issue would make things easier to locate in the long run. So maybe I'll give it a shot. I use an A5 at work. Heavily. I gave up lugging the laptop to most meetings about a year ago. It's just easier to concentrate when there are no electronic distractions in front of your nose all the time. And yeah, I wasn't a big fan of notebooks for a long while, but getting disillusioned with laptops, misplacing my Palm T3 and just having a need to take notes *wherever* combined to push me to testdrive a Moleskine. Bought one in the Harvard bookstore in Cambridge back in 2004. And the rest, as they say, is history. I use the Moleskines in two distinct fashions.

The plain traditional A6 is carried all over in the side pocket of my backpack, and serves as the place to jot down ideas on whatever. Only occasionally I use dedicated pages (or double pages) for a given topic, usually the text just flows freely. But having such a constant location for a specific issue would make things easier to locate in the long run. So maybe I’ll give it a shot.

I use an A5 at work. Heavily. I gave up lugging the laptop to most meetings about a year ago. It’s just easier to concentrate when there are no electronic distractions in front of your nose all the time.

And yeah, I wasn’t a big fan of notebooks for a long while, but getting disillusioned with laptops, misplacing my Palm T3 and just having a need to take notes *wherever* combined to push me to testdrive a Moleskine. Bought one in the Harvard bookstore in Cambridge back in 2004. And the rest, as they say, is history.

]]> By: Juha Ylitalo http://lavonardo.net/blog/2008/04/24/moleskine-art/#comment-207 Juha Ylitalo Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:56:32 +0000 http://lavonardo.net/blog/?p=489#comment-207 Have you tried moleskins in different sizes? At least for me ruled A5 gets little used, but most of my notes go into ruled A6 noitebook/reporter books. I have one ruled A6 notebook for work related stuff and one ruled A6 reporter for travel notes, etc. Whenever I start new topic, I always use double page for that topic, i.e. I have one reserved for each one of my three blogs covering todo items (like WP upgrade, adding plugins, etc.) as well as topics that I should write about). I've reserved one double paged area for future ABC wednesday topic options and another one for finnish version of it. I also did all my notes about Nepal into one of those A6 sized notebooks. I am still real newbie with notebooks, because I've never liked normal A4 or A5 notebooks, but fell in love with moleskins (especially the small A6 ones fit into pockets, etc.). Have you tried moleskins in different sizes?
At least for me ruled A5 gets little used, but most of my notes go into ruled A6 noitebook/reporter books. I have one ruled A6 notebook for work related stuff and one ruled A6 reporter for travel notes, etc.
Whenever I start new topic, I always use double page for that topic, i.e. I have one reserved for each one of my three blogs covering todo items (like WP upgrade, adding plugins, etc.) as well as topics that I should write about). I’ve reserved one double paged area for future ABC wednesday topic options and another one for finnish version of it. I also did all my notes about Nepal into one of those A6 sized notebooks.
I am still real newbie with notebooks, because I’ve never liked normal A4 or A5 notebooks, but fell in love with moleskins (especially the small A6 ones fit into pockets, etc.).

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