Flat pen and moleskinI'm still trying to come up with an optimized personal organizational system, time management system. The best thing I've come up with so far is a Moleskine sketchook
for notes, sketches, writing ideas, and a pocket sized Slingshot organizer for a datebook and contacts. I know it seems like a trivial thing, but a flat pen like this might really increase the functionality of this system. I'm far more likely to have one or both of those little books, than to have a pen on me.As it turns out, it’s not so bad if you put the pen in the middle, clipped to one of the manilla folder inserts (it’s a thin cardboard as opposed to regular paper). The bottom of the pen tends to move around though; I might use a small loop of paper or sponge to help keep the pen in place. The cover does bend alarmingly, comforming itself around the pen, but I think the moleskine can probably hold up to it. Time will tell.
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I have tried a lot of small notebooks and the moleskins are absolutely the best in my opinion. I always carry one under the seat of the scooter and one in my non-riding jacket. I use the unlined sketchbooks because of the heavier paper and they serve as journals and note taking books. More than a few Scooter in the Sticks entries began there.
I have had a fascination with paper since I was a kid and in my work world clogged with technology I find pen and paper to give the same sort of deliberate release from the chaos of a day that the Vespa does.
For awhile I was experimenting with writing instruments and for a long time was using Watermann fountain pens. They were just too fussy for routine use and now I either use a pencil or a Pilot fine tip pen.
Always looking for the simple approach...
I've just started carrying the moleskin around all the time, and I've got a couple zygotes of posts in there.
Usually my posts are written on the fly, as I find something cool just in my normal surfing. Link wrangling, as it were. I really enjoy blogs like yours though, where the posts are prose, more essay-like and polished. I'm hoping to get some more thoughtful pieces through this approach, and it's sure encouraging to know that it has worked for you.
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