Posts Tagged ‘notebook’

Stripped GTD: 3 Habits That Make You More Productive

David Allen's Getting Things Done has been a huge help to me as I've created processes and systems for many of the things I do, be it writing, other work, or just budgeting my time so I can spend more of it doing the things I love. The problem with GTD, the snag I've hit time and time again trying to implement its practices, is that it's just so darn… Continue reading

June 15 2009 | By David | Tagged: gtd, notebook, organization, Productivity, review | 14 comments»

10 Great Notebooks Productive People Love

Although I'm going on 10 years as a PDA/Smartphone user (Palm IIIe - Handspring Visor Neo - Treo 180g - Zire 72 - Treo 680 - Blackberry 8310), I love notebooks. A good pen on nice paper makes me much happier than the feel of a stylus on a plastic screen or the clickety-clack of a thumb-board. My personal notebook inventory consists mainly of three kinds of notebooks:

A pocket-sized

May 5 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: capture, notebook, notepad, paper | 41 comments»

5 Reasons to Pay Good Money for a Moleskine

After posting twice last week about Moleskine notebooks, I got several comments complaining about the high price of the notebooks and their perceived pretentiousness, with one person even asking somewhat accusingly if we'd made some sort of business partnership with the notebook company (we did -- we're promoting their contest and exhibition, which is why I thought it would be neat to write some posts about Moleskines). They're fair questions: a… Continue reading

April 30 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: capture, moleskine, note-taking, notebook, value | 65 comments»

13 Things to Do with a Moleskine Notebook

We here at Lifehack have been huge advocates of the Moleskine as a tool for ubiquitous capture -- for jotting down ideas whenever and wherever they occur to you. They're also great for keeping your task list and other information you might need over the course of the day. But those are hardly the only things a Moleskine is useful for! These days, Moleskines come in all sizes and colors, in

April 24 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, family, journal, log, moleskine, notebook, reading, record | 21 comments»

10 Great Moleskine Hacks

Photo courtesy DeaPeaJay

In honor of Lifehack’s partnership with Moleskine, I’ve decided to post all Moleskine-related posts this week. Today, I’ll describe 10 cool ways to get a little more out of your Moleskine. While most of these hacks are aimed at the pocket-sized, hardbound Moleskine (what I think of as the “traditional” Moleskine), they can easily be adapted to the medium and large-sized notebooks… Continue reading

April 22 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: hack, list, moleskine, notebook, tab | 31 comments»

9 Places to Always Keep Pen and Paper Handy

Wouldn't it be nice if ideas came to you when they were supposed to? You sit down, decide to be creative, and boom: you're creative. The juices flow, the ideas are endless, and your brilliance just runneth over onto the page. Unfortunately, that's not the case. For most of us, our creative and inspirational moments come at random, unpredictable, and often totally inconvenient times. There's no rhyme or reason to it… Continue reading

April 21 2009 | By David | Tagged: capture, inbox, notebook, organization, paper, pen, ubiquitous capture | 23 comments»

8 Replacements for Google Notebook

Last week, Google announced that it will be ending "active development" for Google Notebook. More than a few people are upset about the decision: Google Notebook's Firefox extension made it a favorite for keeping track of all sorts of notes. With the end of active development, Google Notebook won't be immediately closed down (at least for active users) but its extension will probably quit working with the next major upgrade… Continue reading

January 20 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: google, notebook | 32 comments»

Back to Basics: Capture Your Ideas

Does this sound familiar? You’re slowly drifting off to sleep when you come up with a great line for the song or paper you’ve been working on all day. It’s such a great idea, in fact, that you just know you’ll remember it in the morning. Happy to have finally come up with the perfect line, you nod off, smiling and peaceful. In the morning, of course, it’s gone. All that… Continue reading

July 4 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: capture, idea, inbox, memory, moelskine, notebook, processing, todo | 24 comments»

Journaling: How I Remember the Details

When I moved across the country, I brought two stuffed filing cabinets worth of personal papers. Not bills or business papers — we’re talking about notebooks filled with minutia of day-to-day life. Since high school, I’ve relied on notebooks (my current preference is Moleskine cahiers, though I’ve used everything from composition books to huge 200-page sketchbooks to little spiral bounds obtained at the dollar store) to write down anything that… Continue reading

February 28 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: diary, journal, notebook, record, ubiquitous_capture | 22 comments»

How to Use a Notebook to Make 2008 the Best Year Ever

The notebook has been around forever. Do you remember your first one? It probably had very wide lines and perhaps a spiral binding. You used a fat pencil and traced letters until they became second nature. Before long you learned script. Then you migrated to pens. Some of you, dear readers, are now Moleskine aficionados and are selective and perhaps downright snooty about your pen choice. The lefties here… Continue reading

January 7 2008 | By Susan | Tagged: goal setting, gtd, meditation, new_year, notebook, planning, Productivity, success, tool | 69 comments»

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… Continue reading

September 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gtd, notebook | 7 comments»

The Dirt Cheap Milk Container binding system

This is a simple binding hack from Judy Of The Woods. She's made up a very, very cheap alternative to those clip-in binder notebooks that Circa and Rollabind make. The system revolves around making binding loops from the container plastic with larger heads at each end. Also you'll need to cut slits outward from your hole punches to insert and remove pages. The results look great, plus the customizations are endless… Continue reading

June 5 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: binding, book, notebook | 1 comment»

Create a 100 pages Notebook

Chebang at Instructables has a step-by-step guide on making your own notebook, with materials that available at home. Why would you want to create your own notebook? Frankly, this is pretty cool and elegant - for instance, you can create your own front cover: I am so tired of looking for new notebook and never find exactly what I want. So I thought, why not make my own? This tutorial… Continue reading

August 3 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: MAKE, notebook | no comments»