Moleskine notebooks
Troy starts using a Moleskine notebook and finds he’s spreading a virus around his office:
It’s like a virus :) [ ... ] I scrawl random notes of things I want to remember in the Moleskine. I’ve managed not to get hung up on format or content. There is no rule that says “this is or is not worthy of going in a $15 notebook”, it’s all to help me, and my time is easily worth it.
I have been using various Moleskine notebooks (mostly the blank notebooks) for years, and love them. They are well made, hefty, and have a certain substance that is missing. In addition, they are not cheap, and like a fountain pen, it means I keep track of them at all times. This means I always have one with me, and always know where it is. Before, I would use $1 notebooks from whatever crappy store I could get them, and I’d rarely get more than 10% through it before I’d lose it. That makes it worthless, even at the price.
Value isn’t a direct result of price, but of what it helps you accomplish—sometimes subconciously.
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I found this small notebook through my father’s company. (They gave them out at meetings and the such). I am not sure of the brand, but my father always gets them for me, they have metal covers and a really hefty back, and nice spiral binding. And they are my favorite for jotting down my notes in.
Of course, do I ever check the notes later on to see what I need to do? No.
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I found rhodia pads to have better paper at a lower price. Not as low as a $1, so you might be able to feel compelled to keep track of it. (And Rhodia has a (perhaps smaller) trendy cult following just like moleskine.
I prefer griddedpaper & the rhodia grids are much better than those from moleskine. I hear Clairefontaine had the same paper in ungridded form.