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I've been searching for a perfect little notebook for all my needs, most serve the note taking purpose but lacks photo journaling features, GTD elements, or refillable with nice leather covers. I have a passion for Moleskine and Traveler's Notebook, but a product with the combination of their features, in addition to some of my own note taking practice, is difficult to find. So I set out to play with some customizations and adaptations on scrap materials.......
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Day 5, The August Break, 2013 - { close up }
There's always something quite special about starting a new notebook. It fills me with a sense of oportunity and endless possibility, a feeling of excitement about what could happen. It's a simple act that holds so much potential.
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.
A new, smaller journal. I hand-bound it myself and added the tabs for a little bit of fun. They're more like placeholders, so I can get to where I'm working easier.
Old notebook left on the desk in abandonded gunpowder factory, which was used during WWII. Notes regarding deliveries dates from 1942,
paperclips on notebook - A notebook with a pile of paperclips. To Download this image without watermarks for Free, visit: www.sourcepics.com/free-stock-photography/24706456-paperc...
Using this free tutorial:
oneredrobin.com/2006/11/30/how-to-make-a-notebook-pencil-...
Blogged here:
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Shots of my planner for my blog and all crafty things for this year! part of an old notebook I am determined to fill up this year.
January 24th - Saturday. Second day of strategy residential. It was a very good meeting although I was pretty exhausted afterwards.
Not too tired though to celebrate Burns Night. I had haggis and drank scotch and attempted to read some Burns and toast the haggis. Not everyone joined in!
Reasons to be cheerful
1. My first whisky session in at least 9 months. Nice.
2. Haggis.
3. Successful 2 day meeting.
I just found that Shanti asked whether Midori's Traveler's Notebook is acid free or not in Dec 2007! She got the notebook as a Christmas gift from her husband and wondered if the notebook can preserve her diary/writing forever.
So I did a test tonight with pH testing pencil and to my surprise....
Well, the paper is acid free but the notebook cover is not! Rest assured that the inside pages of the refill can keep your content in near archival quality, just don't put any important stuffs on the cover or the pages touching the cover if you are meticulous about preservation. Side note: friend at KOLO album told me that in some cases the paper can be acid free in the beginning but as time goes by, the trace lignin inside the paper can make the paper goes yellow and further deteriorate. For more information on Acid-free paper and archival quality standard, visit:
Acid-free Paper from Wikipedia
The ANSI/NISO Z39.48 Standard from Stanford University
Selection from North American Permanent Papers
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Handmade notebook.
Cover screenprinted on wood. Back and spine is one piece letterpress printed in 1 color.
Available at: shop.elcalotipo.com/
Libreta de notas con cubierta de madera estampada en serigrafÃa. La trasera y lomo es de una pieza estampada en letterpress a 1 tinta.
A la venta en: shop.elcalotipo.com/