Falling for Notebooks
A strange thing has happened over the years: people are falling in love with their notebooks. You can see this with the surge in Moleskine popularity and the huge following it has.
I must admit, however, that it’s not all justified. When you begin devoting some energy to writing in a notebook, particularly organizing or making a daily todo list, you become more addicted to it.
The second you have a new idea or another task, out comes the book.
Utilware.com discusses this in a little more detail while developing a simple task action system called GSD [as opposed to GTD, getting things done].
But the strangest thing of all is that I’m finding that I have less and less need for any sort of organizational scheme. I’ve found that the physical act of writing on paper - rather than pecking away on a keyboard or scribbling out something in Graffiti - actually helps me remember it much
better.
It’s a another good start for anyone who asks the question, “what’s with all these notebooks?”
Falling hard for a pad of paper - [Utilware]
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Skellie says on September 21st, 2007 at 7:20 am
There’s definitely a certain level of addiction, particularly when it comes to the Moleskine. How else can I justify spending $32 Australian dollars (around $25US) on a notebook covered in pleather?
I think we’re buying more than a notebook, though. We’re buying the promise of better ideas and more serious productivity.
AJ says on September 21st, 2007 at 11:03 am
Hmmm… I have three different moleskins on me at all times. Yeah, addiction is probably a good term for it, but is it any worse than the people who are attached to their ‘Crack’-berries?
Pinyo says on September 21st, 2007 at 2:35 pm
I agree. I take my notebook everywhere I go. I don’t use moleskin though, just a simple spiral bound book.
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Adam Snider says on September 23rd, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I’m not sure what it is, but there is definitely something about the act of physically writing something down (by hand, rather than typing it) that makes it much, much easier to remember.
When I was a student, I usually found that, as long as I took good notes during the lecture, I would remember most of what the prof had said that day, and wouldn’t necessarily have to review my notes in any great detail when it came time to study for exams.
The simple fact that I wrote it down made me more likely to remember it, even if I never bothered to take a second look at the notes I had written.