Comments on: How I Use My Knockoff Moleskine

By: Better Memory through Association and Associative Techniques

Better Memory through Association and Associative Techniques — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:52:09 +0000

[...] that you should keep everything in your head. Quite the contrary; having an external brain like a (knock-off) Moleskine will increase your memory by 1,453,532%, and using clever tricks like calendar reminders will [...]

By: Keeping Track of Ideas | Happenchance

Keeping Track of Ideas | Happenchance — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:44:17 +0000

[...] want to rip the pages out. To learn more about getting the most out of your notebook, check out How I Use My (Knockoff) Moleskine. Key points here include indexing and labeling the outside of the notebook with the date range (July [...]

By: Need Ideas? Try and Inspiration Binge | Happenchance

Need Ideas? Try and Inspiration Binge | Happenchance — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:49:36 +0000

[...] an idea bank or notebook (knockoff moleskine) handy. Record ideas…but don’t act on them [...]

By: Better Memory through Association | Happenchance

Better Memory through Association | Happenchance — Thu, 27 May 2010 02:47:59 +0000

By: How I Write (Blog Posts) | Happenchance

How I Write (Blog Posts) | Happenchance — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:44:30 +0000

[...] keep a running running list of headlines in my knock-off moleskine.While most ideas and headlines won’t make the cut (Why My Head is Actually a Turnip, for [...]

By: The Power of a Routine | Happenchance

The Power of a Routine | Happenchance — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:16:25 +0000

[...] with a regular creative routine, you’ll have even more of these. Hopefully you’ll have a notebook to catch [...]

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:59:10 +0000

Hey Peter,
I’ve tried doing notebooks for specific subjects, but for what I do, a lot of my categories are interrelated, so it’s easier just to throw everything in one. For advanced subjects, though (your PhD work), I can see devoting entire notebooks to a single subject. The trick is filling them up!

Thanks for reading and extra thanks for finding that dead link.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:17:44 +0000

Love this page and the links. Lots of good ideas for someone for whom forgetfulness is an. . .Sorry forgotten what.

But the link The Monster Collection of Moleskine Tips, Tricks, and Hacks seems to be dead or broken. Unless I’ve mislaid it on my way from this page to that.

I keep buying moleskines and am always congratulated by the salesperson on my taste but find I have to use them for specific subjects – eg birds, my PhD etc. I’m just not organised enough to keep a general one. When I try to, ideas and notebooks seem to be mutually exclusive like E’s theory of uncertainty: I can never have one while the other is present and vice versa. So now I have a large pile of Moleskines of a pleasing variety of shapes and sizes waiting for their particular subject to come along.

The larger of the plain reporter’s notebooks, by the way, is ideal, used on its side, for mindmaps. But that’s probably on the link page that led me here. Now, how did I get here?

By: Happenchance » Blog Archive » Increase Creativity With Mind Mapping

Happenchance » Blog Archive » Increase Creativity With Mind Mapping — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:58:10 +0000

[...] and use all the mind tricks I can. Minds maps are one of my favorites. Used in conjunction with my knockoff moleskine and daily journal, it’s like having an extra [...]

By: Alexandre Boudreau

Alexandre Boudreau — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:01:30 +0000

Seth,

I love how you’re organized. I keep saying to myself that i’ve got to note down my thoughts and ideas, and often I do, but I only do when I’m in front of my laptop. Although that’s most of the time, my creative thinking mostly happens when I’m not in front of my laptop, for some reason. So i’ve got to find a good way to note down my thoughts. Perhaps a digital voice recorder could do the trick? BTW, the little notebook for learning a language is indeed a great tool. I did the same when I learned Khmer a few years back. every new word I looked up in the khmer dictionnary I would right it down in my little notebook and read it over. But I haven’t practiced in hmmm… 4 years .. gosh, forgot most of it. arrg.