Little red book
As I said, I’m blogging less and writing more. A good feeling. Looking to sites like lifehack.org and 43folders.com, [link fixed] I’m inclined to think paper is the next big thing.
There’s a cachet among neo-paper-geeks (perhaps fetish is more accurate) for the Moleskine notebooks. And, yes, you have to pronounce the name in four syllables. Bah! I prefer the the more flexible Miquelrius, with its quadrille printing. Great for tiny handwriting and a more economical, plus the red one can be seen as being so stylishly theological. That and a co-worker at Day Job caught the “Mao is me” visual pun. $6.95 at Barnes and Noble.
Are there any notebooks you like? Derek: is there a style of field book you like(d)?
25 July 2005 at 10:29 pm
Scott: What is the proper URL for 43folders–your link is broken.
Cheerfully, Roger
25 July 2005 at 11:30 pm
Ahhhh…. My favorite field book was small, brown leather bound, and had blank pages with no lines. Perfect for geological field notes, drawings of specimens, and sketching little maps of the terrain I worked in. That notebook had a “thingness” to it, as well as hints of Indiana Jones. There was no brand name to that notebook. I simply bought it at the University of Chicago bookstore.
I’ve considered going back to some kind of notebook. There is a simplicity to paper and pen, and a notebook and pen are even more portable than my iBook. And with my propensity to write for publication (and not just in the Universalist Herald), I’m thinking a theological notebook would be a good place to stew my ideas. Think of it as my ministry field book. And by ministry I mean both my work in the local Quaker congregation, AND also my ministry in the printed word.
25 July 2005 at 11:54 pm
Oh dear, I found myself using the word “thingness” a lot the day I bought my notebook. I’ll fix that link in a sec.
26 July 2005 at 5:43 pm
Moleskine also has a quadrille pad, FYI.
26 July 2005 at 7:05 pm
The Moleskine notebooks are too expensive, too fetish-y, IMNSHO. But the do offer a nice Indiana Jones quality to writing.