9 thoughts on “Moleskine Pen Hack”

1. “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.

2. 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 :-/

3. 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.

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

5. 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. 🙂

6. 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

7. 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?

8. 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.

9. 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.

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