Notebooks
In November of 1993, my work was getting ahead of me and so I decided for the first time to record everything in notebooks (before that I used Day-timers). In the UK they had these nicely bound blank books call Black n' Red, and I bought the A5 size (210 x 148 mm), which is a very handy form factor to take with you everywhere. Since then, I have continued to use bound books of one design or another for taking and keeping notes.
I write everything in my notebooks, meeting notes, phone numbers, to-do lists, part dimensions, phone messages, addresses, etc. Everything that might ordinarily get scribbled on a piece of scrap paper goes into the notebook instead. That way you never lose anything you wrote down, it's always available (though it often takes a fair bit of digging around to find it).
I used A5 Black n' Red and OSTAline notebooks until I moved back to the US, where they were no longer available. Then in June 1996, while I was working at Cisco Systems, I started using cardboard composition books.
After I left Cisco in 1999 I used a couple of A4 sized blank books (not shown), but then by September 2001 I had procured another Black n' Red book and used it until August 2005 (the time I was taking in getting my current company started). After going through a couple of no-name A5 blank books I found in France in 2003, I was finally able to source a handful of Black n' Red books here in the US, through an internet supplier. Google tells me they are now widely distributed in the US.
Notebooks
In November of 1993, my work was getting ahead of me and so I decided for the first time to record everything in notebooks (before that I used Day-timers). In the UK they had these nicely bound blank books call Black n' Red, and I bought the A5 size (210 x 148 mm), which is a very handy form factor to take with you everywhere. Since then, I have continued to use bound books of one design or another for taking and keeping notes.
I write everything in my notebooks, meeting notes, phone numbers, to-do lists, part dimensions, phone messages, addresses, etc. Everything that might ordinarily get scribbled on a piece of scrap paper goes into the notebook instead. That way you never lose anything you wrote down, it's always available (though it often takes a fair bit of digging around to find it).
I used A5 Black n' Red and OSTAline notebooks until I moved back to the US, where they were no longer available. Then in June 1996, while I was working at Cisco Systems, I started using cardboard composition books.
After I left Cisco in 1999 I used a couple of A4 sized blank books (not shown), but then by September 2001 I had procured another Black n' Red book and used it until August 2005 (the time I was taking in getting my current company started). After going through a couple of no-name A5 blank books I found in France in 2003, I was finally able to source a handful of Black n' Red books here in the US, through an internet supplier. Google tells me they are now widely distributed in the US.