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Seth Goodling's Moleskine PDA Hacks

Seth Goodling, on his GTD-modded notebook:

"I use two versions depending on my mood and time. If I am feeling crafty, I grab about 20 pages and make notches down the length of the book with a razor blade to create little tabs to separate my sections. If time does not allow, I simply grab those pages and use a marker to color a section.

I should run over with my car. It works for me, I tend to just keep the "chapters" straight in my head...."

More at Seth's blog, "Good Pens"

Related GTD hacks, found via our new-ish search box up there:)

Discuss: Reasons to Pay Good Money for a Moleskine

Dustin Wax over at LifeHack has 5, and has this caveat:

"Before I give my reasons, I should say that there are plenty of worthwhile alternatives to Moleskines (but a spiral-bound notebook isn’t one of them — sorry, Charlie!), some accurate-enough knock-offs and others taking a different approach to notebook design. I’m not as much wed to the brand as I am to the design — but the Moleskine brand is the one consistent supplier of that design...."

:::Drumrolls:::

Number One!

The CEO's notebook

New York Times' Adam Bryant recently interviewed Richard Anderson, chief executive of Delta Air Lines. An interesting excerpt:

Q. Are you a list keeper?

A. I use Moleskines. It’s just lists of things. Sometimes I’ll just sit down and write what I’m thinking about things, because I’m not a PowerPoint person. I’ll start at the upper left corner of the page and start writing, in complete thoughts, what I think. I have a long paper that I’m writing about our marketing strategy.

Read the full interview

[Thanks to Will S.]

Home exchange tip: Write your own guidebook

Julie Ovenell-Carter shares her experience with the Moleskine City Notebooks:

"During our home exchange to Paris last summer, our best tips didn’t come from Fodor’s or Rough Guide or Lonely Planet but from the pile of hand-picked and well-worn books, magazines, newspaper clippings and hand-written notes left for us by our exchange family.

I vowed we’d do a similar favour for our exchange visitors this coming summer, and was delighted to run across a new offering from the good folks at Moleskine, creators of the sleek little Italian notebooks favoured for centuries by artists and other creative types...."

Learn more at Julie's site, thesebootstravel

Webfind: The Art of Manliness

On Tuesdays, the blog "The Art of Manliness" highlights a contribution to their community. Today it is a post from Stephen Young about pocket notebooks.

"Of all the tools in your arsenal, without a doubt the most important is your pocket notebook. Notebooks are the obvious precursor to PDA’s and computers, and still have the upper hand on these gadgets in that they are quickly accessible, absolutely customizable and completely unique. No other technology will allow you to easily compile lists, sketches, calendars, notes, plans, links - exactly the way you want them....:"

Interesting link to the Portaitissa icon towards the end.

Learn more

[Thanks to Kristian Brodie]

Project: Moleskine Speaker

 

Patrick Ng's latest project for a Lifehack.org GTD initiative:

"At the back of this MoleLoudSpeaker, a switch to turn it on, a mic for you to speak to, and a horizontal switch to select either speaker, police siren or fire engine siren modes..."

Learn more 

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"1st prize: A lifetime supply of Moleskine*"

Inspiration: Rock Balancing

Bill Dan Balancing Rocks at Sausalito downtown.

Overheard: "Mad props dude!"

OPEN SESSION: The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion

Welcome to OPEN SESSION:  The Moleskinerie Open Thread Discussion.

Moleskinerie invites you, our visitors to share your thoughts on a special topic.

Today it is: "KEEPING A GARDEN JOURNAL"

Spring has sprung and so has the pages of many garden journals. Recording the progress of growing things is a tradition kept by farmers and gardeners for ages. Do you keep one?

Image: Victory Garden/WIKIPEDIA

VIEW ALL OPEN SESSIONS HERE.

Inspiration:

Watercolor sketches by Juan Blanco

Cabo de Gata - Playa de Agua Amarga

Cabo de Gata - Iglesia de las Salinas

From our FLICKR pool, these pair of beautiful watercolor Moleskine drawings by artist Juan Blanco done in Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, Spain. The location, according to Wikpedia is...

"...characterized by volcanic rock formations and by matorral, an abundance of drought-adapted flora: low-growing vegetation, dwarf fan palms and a number of xerophytes..."

Learn more

© 2009 Juan Blanco All Rights Reserved.

Moleskine on TfL

Barry Sampson tipped us off to the TfL site and look! Moleskine City Guides!

(Hmmm, looks like they're fresh out. More should be coming soon)

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