Your Agenda / Datebook / Planner / 'Diary' on a scale of 1 to why don't you just marry it already and have human-paper babies with dates on their foreheads

i guess a 7 but number will prob go up

MOLESKINE.

i have a functional july-june diary. probably a 5, it does the job but it's nothing fancy.

i also have the little thin unlined notebooks that come in packs of 3 and that can fit inside the pocket of the big notebook!

big HOOS to thread

Gave up on diaries years ago. Now I use Outlook (because my work uses an Exchange server so I'm f'n stuck with it) for appointments and a plain-paper visual diary for everything else.

oh yeah it is moleskine yeah
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I have the same one and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!!! :-)

I don't know what it is that makes Moleskines feel like sex.

well, "palimpsest" kinda sounds like some masturbation-related euphemism, so hay...

gonna take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant

Like, George Plimpton + palimpsest= herpes of the hands, acquired in some incredibly unlikely and embarrassing (not to mention, medically impossible) way)

))uh

the weird thing about moleskines is that they already look like artifacts

esp if you write in black pen or in pencil

I love the title of this thread to itty bits :D

Also I love notebooks and diaries and all things papery.

(xxp to rrrobyn) They do, don't they? Probably massively expensive for what they are but I don't care. <3

A shop near me was throwing out the 2007 ones for $5 apiece. I didn't get one because I hate lines.

omg Trayce when you were little did you get all excited in the stationery aisle? I acn remember getting a 120pg exercise book and just feeling it for hours.

Also I love notebooks and diaries and all things papery.

One of the main things I remember from reading "1984", and I actually only ever read it in 1984, (or maybe '83?) is the part where Winston is describing the creamy texture of the paper that he is clandestinely scrawling his thoughts on

i like paper, i will admit it
there's this new (?) swedish notebook that's called something like 'white' that is white paper with white lines, which is kind of neat. but when i looked at it in the store it was more like grey paper with white lines :/ bleah. they should've done it the other way around.

xposts: yeah they are kind of expensive but unless you get the standard cheapass planner you're still paying a fair bit for a planner anyway! i find

i also got this little 15 cent metal thing that you put your pencil through/in so it attaches to notebook cover like a pen & pen cap. but the weird thing is that while on the metro btwn work and this store i was thinking about exactly this kind of thingy and how i'd never seen such a thing but it had to exist didn't it? and there it was! but not as good as the one i had imagined. but yknow i thought i'd test it out.

i don't know, my pencils fit well next to the back pocket when there is stuff in the back pocket

i also remember that part of 1984 but i'm remembering the movie version of it

did not see movie.

In my experience, Japanese notebooks so beautiful.

xposts: yeah they are kind of expensive but unless you get the standard cheapass planner you're still paying a fair bit for a planner anyway! i find

True. And Moleskine paper is thinner, so you can get 120 leaves in a relatively compact thickness.

My lifelong shame is that I never have enough important stuff going on to need a planner.

For note-taking, the newish softcover Moleskines are awesome. Never got on with hardcovers - you lose too much writing space in the binding.

i have had friends send or bring me a lot of awesome paper stuff from japan and they've actually said with eyes wide, "but really, robyn, the paper!!" - apparently even dollar stores rule on the paper front
i need to go there v much

i manage to fill up planners with some seriously mundane stuff mixed with a fair amount of wtf - i can't remember a lot of things without writing them down, and even then i have my doubts

if all the important things in life that i needed to remember came in the form of a really fucked up visceral scene in a horror movie, well then i wouldn't need a planner

'dentist appointment 10am!! raaahljkfdklsfj killer zombie chilren'

i guess you'd get desensitized eventually tho

if all the important things in life that i needed to remember came in the form of a really fucked up visceral scene in a horror movie

thought this would be an abbott thread

i have had friends send or bring me a lot of awesome paper stuff from japan and they've actually said with eyes wide, "but really, robyn, the paper!!" - apparently even dollar stores rule on the paper front
i need to go there v much

do you have a japantown or some such community where you live? b/c i'm not talking about quality of paper itself, as much as the cool stationary options in general, like, interesting design and all that...plus great japanglish text

my moleskine is my wallet/life preserver. without it i'd be sending car payments to Atlantic Monthly or something. if i'm somewhere i can stop and write (ie anywhere not driving), the second something occurs to me it gets written down. later i go back and deal with the stuff: scheduling for later, doing, forwarding.

if i can't stop and write it down (ie if i'm driving), i pull out my phone and call Jott. they transcribe the note for me and email it to me. since i basically live in my gmail inbox, the note is waiting for me as soon as i'm at a computer. from there it gets treated like anything written in the moleskine: scheduled, done, or forwarded.

The notebook gets used less when I'm less busy. During school I'm using it several times a day: dumping, processing, forwarding. There are projects, assignments, study group contacts, etc. Without the notebook I couldn't keep track of it all.

But now, during the winter break, it's mainly used for daily errands (i.e. not a lot).

I have two on the go: a thick credit card-size (ruled ffs, I HATE ruled) for various notes on stuff, writing ideas, etc., and a larger A5-ish (plain) for longer writing and sketching. These virtually live on me, even though I've been too exhausted to use either in about two months.

omg Trayce when you were little did you get all excited in the stationery aisle?

Haahah I still do! I love going to Eckerleys and spending money on watercolour paper books and funky notebooks and adding them to the big pile of lined and blank notebooks I already have (most of which are filled with rambling crap).

But to get back to the subject at hand I am, on the other hand, about as organised as a pile of washing.

WHAT AND WHERE IS THIS ECKERLEYS

(I have a pile of ~150 blank notebooks literally 80cm high under the stairs.)

Oh christ I typoed it anyway. Eckersley's - its an artist supplies chain, there's a store in Commercial rd, down and across a bit from Prahran market. Check it out! It is deadly awesome :D

Also, I knew there was a reason I liked you =)

lolz we are blank paper buddies

Trayce, Officeworks is doing 64pg exercise books for 1c each!! They're neither diaries nor art materials but at this price you can nary go wrong.

1c! Bloody herr.

Wait, how would they sell it if you bought one?

'min purchase of 5'

THIS is how I ended up with 150 blank exercise books under the stairs.

I have some $3 day planner which works bcz it's got like 1/3 of the page for each day (small space for weekends). And it tells me what order the days go in and I write everything down in it and cross it out when it's done. I don't think this is very original.

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You can't go wrong with 150 notebooks for $1.50. Hell thats cheaper than toilet paper.

I have a pen. It works on much paper.

pencil >>>>>>>>>> pen