Posts Tagged ‘moleskine’

How to Use a Todo List to Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever

Ah, the humble todo list. With all the high-tech, whiz-bang productivity applications, mobile gadgets, office tools, and genuine Corinthian leather dayplanners out there to spend our money and attention on, in the end the single most productive tool we can use boils down to a list of crap we need to do. Look under the hood of any GTD app or productivity system, and the engine that drives them… » Continue

January 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: moleskine, organization, Productivity, task, todo_list | 35 comments»

Moleskine Hack: Tab + Bookmark

Here’s a great tip for the notebook GTDers out there. Peter at Getting [Some] Things Done has a nice write up on using tabs to organize his Moleskine notebook, but this little hack stood out.

Starting at the back and working forwards, are my notes, sketches etc. I use the bookmark to mark the current working place, and a single blue tab at the top of the notebook to mark… » Continue

October 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gtd, moleskine | 4 comments»

Advice for Students: 11+ Ways to Make this Your Best Semester Yet

Right about now, America’s students are heading back to school for the Fall semester. Last week, I gave some very specific advice about using a wiki to store and organize notes, but keeping good notes is just part of being a successful student. Over the weekend, I decided to offer up some more general, all-purpose advice for students. Whether you’re just starting college or returning, the… » Continue

August 27 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, college, collegelife, howto, moleskine, organization, Productivity, student, tip, university | 46 comments»

Make Your Own Moleskine

The ole’ Moleskine notebook. It’s become a standard for writers, creative types and GTD-wannabes the world over. Ever want to just make your own? Michael Shannon has got you covered.

All you need is: A bookbinders needle, Beeswax, A bookbinders awl, Adhesive, Xacto knife, Ruler, T-square, Heavy books, Pencil, Bone folder [some really strong fingernails] & Binder clips.

It’s an original design with a very thorough tutorial that makes it look… » Continue

August 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: moleskine | 7 comments»

Staying Organized with Moleskine

Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users shares her organization system using Moleskine. Inspired by PigPog PDA Moleskine hack, she mixed and customized parts to fit her style. Overall the most useful part is how she separated her moleskine into different sections: Next Actions; Projects; Travel/Calendar; Notes; Health; Back Pocket. Also her reasons on using a moleskine instead of a cheap notebook is quite interesting:

2) There’s a theory that… » Continue

February 1 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: moleskine, organization, pda, Productivity | 3 comments»

Moleskine Memo Pocket - Wallet & Hipster PDA Case

The Cranking Widgets Blog had an interesting tip on using a Moleskine Memo Pocket. You can use your Moleskine Pocket Memo as a wallet and Hipster PDA carrying case.
I realized that I could probably fit the necessary wallet contents into the two spare pockets of the Moleskine. It fits nicely into my wallet pocket and isn’t really any bigger than my previous wallet. The best part is, I’m now able… » Continue

January 15 2007 | By Rob | Tagged: hipster, hipsterpda, moleskine, organizing | 4 comments»

Hacking a GTD Moleskine

Talk about a great example of GTD and Moleskine implementation - Eston Bond at hyalineskies preaches his tales on GTD and how he moves from using Treo 650 and Kinkless GTD to Moleskine.

The post has detail of his setup and I am not going to repeat what his said. What I found useful though is the section on dividing moleskine in sections. As moleskine is just a notebook… » Continue

December 26 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, moleskine, Productivity | 7 comments»

Kody’s Moleskine iPod Hack

Another great hack on Moleskine. Kody Chamberlain, a professional comic book artist, is a loyal Moleskine and iPod user. He figured out a way to combine both of his frequently used items in a case. He chose a refillable sketchbook and slide those two items and other accessories like pens into the leather flaps:

Great hack - thanks for passing this along, Kody.

Kody’s Moleskine iPod Hack

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December 19 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: ipod, moleskine | 3 comments»

Creating a Custom Moleskine Planner

Moleskine is not as popular as before - but I am sure it still has its fans. Best of all it is elegant, it is free in style, you can customize it in any ways. Mike Rohde, a visual designer, shares his setup on creating a custom moleskine planner. He bought a new line-ruled Pocket Moleskine notebook and draw up his custom planner:

Planner Formatting
On the ruled Pocket… » Continue

July 12 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: moleskine, planner | 5 comments»

PigPog’s Moleskine PDA Updated

You know you want a real good reason to really use a Moleskine. Admit it: you own one that’s not getting a lot of ink (well, there’s just so beautiful- you can’t just… write on it!) Enter: the PogPog PDA.

Michael has a killer system here, complete with what I’ve come to realize is what was missing with my attempts at using a paper PDA: a way to deal with what’s… » Continue

July 10 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: gtd, moleskine, organization, pda, planner, planning, Productivity | 1 comment»

The Moleskine Social Network

You have at least one Moleskine sitting around, don’t you? Aren’t they built right into the Lifehack.org action figure kits these days? Sacha Chua uses hers to keep track of people and conversations she encouters during a given day. It’s fascinating.

I’m somewhat notorious for writing notes during conversations. I keep ‘minutes’ in a little black book that I always carry with me. I can’t help it! I love learning… » Continue

May 30 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: conversation, hacks, Lifehack, lifehacks, moleskine, networks, social, stewe+boyd | 2 comments»