Who would have thought? In this era of PDFs, email attachments and
instant messaging, it looks like plain old paper is making a comeback.
Stationery stores report double-digit increases in the sales of writing
journals and paper planners.
DIYplanner.com, a website devoted to
"paper-based productivity" promotes the virtues of note-taking and
diary-keeping, with ongoing blog postings about buying the best chunky
pens and finding the "most smooth and delicious" vellum papers. ("I’ve
had a lifelong addiction to office supplies," one blogger confesses.)
On
the bus and in the metro, people with iPod buds in their ears and
laptops in their briefcases are scribbling into little notebooks.
The
Moleskine, a black bound journal just like the one Vincent van Gogh
kept in his pocket and reproduced by the Italian company Modo &
Modo, has become the latest fashion accessory among a new generation of
sketchers and doodlers.
Claire Bennett, a 22-year-old fine arts
student at Concordia University, has just filled hers, mostly with
to-do lists and plans and reminders of movies to see, books to read and
sketches for her art projects.
It’s being heralded as the "back-to-paper movement."
"On the paper trail: Not everything is better with a BlackBerry"
SUSAN SEMENAK, The Gazette
Photograph by : PIERRE OBENDRAUF THE GAZETTE
[Thanks Joyce!]
There is a web site that I frequent that compliments this one very much: PocketMod.com. This site allows one to make their own planner on a sheet paper. You print, cut and fold and do with it as you like. I have a few of these in my Moleskines. Very handy now that I have ditched a PDA for paper this year.