Moleskine Pen Hack

"I've demonstrated a quick hack for a flat pen holder for my Moleskine, made in five minutes with ribbon, scissors and glue. I really love the notebooks, however it would be nice if the Moleskine grid came in a Edward Tufte ghost grid style paper. 

Sean Gerety
Details at his blog .

Link to Edward Tufte

Comments

[Robert Anton-Erik]

"I really love the notebooks, however it would be nice if the Moleskine grid came in a Edward Tufte ghost grid style paper."

I *so* agree! I prefer gridded paper, but I find the Moleskine grid to be way too dark.

[Joachim]

great idea!

It reminds me of that : http://blog.goo.ne.jp/syaopairon/e/9dc1a850d1f55cbde78976abf3d25998 or this : http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~sprg/ybksf/pv990520.html
I stumbled across theze pages when I was browsing from a referer to my moleskinelog... but I can't find it :-/

[dalton]

Rats, the link to Sean's blog doesn't seem to be working - I can't take a closer look. I'm definitely going to do this one, though.

[k1rk]

Here Here! I always find notebooks with graph paper to have a graph that is WAY too dark and intrusive. It is very distracting.

[Luis de la Rosa]

The link has an extraneous "." (period) at the end. Just remove that to follow the link.

Interesting hack, but I have the smallest Moleskine possible, so a pen is longer than it. I usually keep lots of pens handy though. :)

[dalton]

Oh, OK, I see it now. I have the small one too, so I just put an elastic loop through mine.

http://www.daltonrooney.com/index.php?p=359

[Stephen]

I like this way of attaching a pen to a notebook. When I used spiral-bounds, I kept it in the spiral if I needed to, very successfully. However, I have this great solution to where I keep my pen - I put it in my pocket! Either my shirt or inside coat pocket (where pens are traditionally carried), or in my trouser pocket (that's pants pocket, you guys).

I find I need a pen several times a day, not always to make a note in my notebook - eg for a visa card signature, or to write up some work paperwork, or just to proffer when someone else needs a pen ( hey, no-one smokes anymore do they, so it's like a lighter as an intro gadget...). And I don't like getting my notebook out each time I need my pen.

I like seeing personal improvements to gear - it makes it more analogue in this digital world. Does anybody have a solution for the vertical weekly diary format yet?

[Fred]

There is my 2 penny. This is a little Moleskine hack that I think of (not really true, it's an amalgam of already discussed hacks with some changes). I called it an Analog Blog. Tell me what you think of it, how it can be improved or if you think it's just a load of crap :)

http://radio.weblogs.com/0140770/2005/01/23.html

Fred.

[Robert Anton-Erik]

Here's my hack w/r/t/ the dark grid in Moleskines: I cut a piece of graph paper to the correct size, then slide it behind the current page of a plain Moleskine notebook. The paper is just translucent enough for the grid to show through without being distracting.