I am an Evernote junkie. There is nothing like starting a paragraph in the cab and finishing it on my desktop in the time it takes me to get from the lobby elevator to the office. My thoughts might be scattered, but my process gives me the illusion of seamlessness. No matter how much I …
I have learned that an excellent way to mitigate Notebook Overpurchase Guilt (NOGuilt) is to write reviews of said notebooks. That way, every time I purchase yet another notebook I cannot possibly need, I feel like I am doing others a service. (Insert self-justification hurl here.) Out of such mental contortions a good thing occasionally …
What can I say? I doodle. My brain cannot handle meetings without doodling. As I have at least five meetings a day, I have doodle opportunities the poor one-meeting-a-day person can never hope to have. I doodled this one over several meetings, using a Nakaya with an EF nib, a Stipula Ventidue with a 1.1 …
Hope for the disorganized-in-denial is now available at Fully Booked. Moleskine has released many diary flavors, from weekly vertical to one day at a time to a special edition with an Italian patent leather cover. (Consumer insight: Shiny cover just might be more visible inside bag stuffed with year-old receipts, three kinds of lip balm …
We’re shooting at Pinto Gallery in Antipolo. Stairs of stone and cement lead to and from pockets of gardens and ponds. There is a whiff of delightful dereliction about the place, a devil-may-care attitude towards cobwebs and lichen. There are sculptures almost indistinguishable in texture from the grass and soil and wood that surround them. …
This was a quick exercise using three different nibs on Moleskine reporter notebook paper: a Bexley fine (bright green ink), a crisp italic from Mr. Binder (spring green ink), and a vintage Parker Lucky Curve nib (burgundy ink). The Bexley fine works out better than the other two, which have a touch more tooth (in …
I’d give it an A for looks an a C+ for paper performance. I bought several Moleskine reporter notebooks in Fully Booked, the unruled version. The format interested me: compact, with the binding on top instead of on the left side. Ever since Chiqui introduced me to Moleskines, I’ve always had at least one on …