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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.
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.
Then insert this Notebook 3 and 4 duo underneath the first two notebooks, i.e. between the cover and Notebook 1 and 2.
More on Scription blog: scription.typepad.com/blog/2007/09/how-to-put-4-notebooks...
my stack of blank notebooks. from left to right:
- moleskine large weekly notebook planner 2014, le petit prince edition
- little prince diary, gift from a friend, purchased in hong kong
- hardcover notebook, souvenir, purchased at the vatican museum
- staple-bound softcover notebooks, souvenirs, purchased at vertecchi, rome
- hand-decorated softcover notebook, souvenir, purchased at il papiro, rome
- hardcover notebook, souvenir, purchased at cartoleria pantheon, rome
- moleskine large weekly notebook and small daily planners 2013, le petit prince edition
- moleskine weekly notebook planner 2012, pacman edition
- moleskine large ruled and small plain notebooks, the hobbit edition
- stone paper softcover notebook, souvenir, purchased at the royal ontario museum, toronto
- moleskine large weekly notebook planner 2011
- moleskine large ruled and small plain notebooks, star wars edition
- moleskine large ruled notebooks, indigo exclusive edition
- large hardcover twine-bound notebook, gift from brother, purchased in mexico city
- moleskine large ruled and small plain notebooks, le petit prince edition
- moleskine large weekly notebook planner 2010
- large hardcover notebook with handmade paper
- moleskine small blank notebook, peanuts edition
- moleskine large ruled notebooks, indigo exclusive edition
- moleskine small ruled notebooks, van gogh edition
- tarpaper notebook, souvenir, purchased at la feltrinelli on via di torre argentina, rome
- stifflexible notebook, souvenir, purchased at la feltrinelli on via di torre argentina, rome
- leather cover notebook, souvenir, purchased at san lorenzo market, florence
- handmade notebook, souvenir, purchased at montserrat
- softcover notebook, souvenir, purchased at park guell, barcelona
one year ago:
Old notebook left on the desk in abandonded gunpowder factory, which was used during WWII. Notes regarding deliveries dates from 1942,
Using this free tutorial:
oneredrobin.com/2006/11/30/how-to-make-a-notebook-pencil-...
Blogged here:
melissagoodsell.typepad.com/day_to_day/2007/09/ohhh-ahhh....