I spend a fair bit of time out in the woods or on the water, I've become a huge fan of Write in the Rain products, along with Japanese made mechanical pencils. My writing and structure has improved a lot after volunteering with the local marine search and rescue crew. Having to write a lot of logging information for training and missions while cooping with the boat movement and weather adds extra challenge!
Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s the name of this pen? Sounds incredibly useful
I don't know the brand. (She's traveling right now.) but I know it uses something called "N" notebooks. Checking Amazon just now shows that Moleskin has one of its own. But I don't know if that's hers.
Might well be Lamy?
https://us-shop.lamy.com/en_us/ncode-technology
I didn’t even know they were still around until recently. I always had Lamy fountain pens as a school kid, many, many years ago.
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#53I'm curious about the main use-cases for physical notebooks from folks on HN. I love the idea of physical notebooks, but also have years of digital notes that are searchable and that I can access on any device. I feel like I'm in too deep with digital, and like the ability to access it anywhere. Has anyone made the switch from digital to physical and loved it? What kind of notes are you taking, how did you get it to…
I feel like I'm in too deep with digital, and like the ability to access it anywhere. You can have both. My wife uses a smart pen that tracks her writing in her notebooks and creates searchable PDFs. Every couple of months she unloads it via Bluetooth into iCloud and the pages are available everywhere she is. She recently turned off the pen's built-in OCR after she found that macOS does a much better job of automatic…
I just scan the notebooks when I fill one up. The scans I open and "print" — but really "Save As PDF". Thus I have a digital backup in the cloud.
Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
#54I'm curious about the main use-cases for physical notebooks from folks on HN. I love the idea of physical notebooks, but also have years of digital notes that are searchable and that I can access on any device. I feel like I'm in too deep with digital, and like the ability to access it anywhere. Has anyone made the switch from digital to physical and loved it? What kind of notes are you taking, how did you get it to…
I have a stack of moleskeine's small flip up art collection sketch pads and take one with me most places. I have one of their music notebooks but that was more aspirational to buy, though I've used it. the use cases include sequence diagrams for processes and code, product ideas, song lyrics, character sketches and story fragments, thoughts I wouldn't put into an electronic device, training diagrams, etc. I write and draw to think and reason things through, and the notebooks are essential to that.
Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
#55I'm curious about the main use-cases for physical notebooks from folks on HN. I love the idea of physical notebooks, but also have years of digital notes that are searchable and that I can access on any device. I feel like I'm in too deep with digital, and like the ability to access it anywhere. Has anyone made the switch from digital to physical and loved it? What kind of notes are you taking, how did you get it to…
I feel like I'm in too deep with digital, and like the ability to access it anywhere. You can have both. My wife uses a smart pen that tracks her writing in her notebooks and creates searchable PDFs. Every couple of months she unloads it via Bluetooth into iCloud and the pages are available everywhere she is. She recently turned off the pen's built-in OCR after she found that macOS does a much better job of automatic…
Will it record anything she writes with the pen? Regardless of what she is writing on? Does she need to replace the ink in the pen ever?
Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era
#56I'm curious about the main use-cases for physical notebooks from folks on HN. I love the idea of physical notebooks, but also have years of digital notes that are searchable and that I can access on any device. I feel like I'm in too deep with digital, and like the ability to access it anywhere. Has anyone made the switch from digital to physical and loved it? What kind of notes are you taking, how did you get it to…
I started carrying notebook and pen in my breast pocket when my children were small. I would do a lot of thinking about my work while I was caring for them, and I wanted something to catch my thoughts. Something I could put away instantly when someone needed a push on the swings and pull back out half an hour later, and have it be just as I left it. I still do this occasionally, but these days I can just use a full sized notebook for sketching out ideas.
Nevertheless, I’ve found it incredibly useful to carry a pocket notebook still. Moleskine for a while, but the paper kind of sucks. These days I pick up anything with a sewn binding and hope I get lucky. But anyway, a big reason is social. People react much better when you grab a notebook and start writing than they do if you pull out your phone. One says, “your words are very important to me,” the other says, “I’m ignoring you.”
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#57Ya'll may also want to check out Midori¹, a favorite of the journaling community. There's also Northbooks², a small American company. And Nanami Paper³ if you want to try out quality paper in the ultra-thin direction. [1]: https://md.midori-japan.co.jp/en/products/mdnote-cotton/ [2]: https://gonorthbooks.com/ [3]: https://www.amazon.com/Cafe-Note-Tomoe-River-Journal/dp/B073...
I love Midori but even with the covers they simply aren't sturdy enough for popping in a bag without getting damaged.
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#58I love my Maruman Mnemosyne 105 (not the 182 which is single sided) notebooks (I've been using them for years). The great thing about them is that the paper is thin but there is no bleed through even with fountain pens.
They're also much more practical for ideating than a Leuchtturm because they are perforated for tearing off. With a Leuchtturm there is a hesitation to write because you don't want to waste paper or mess up a nice notebook, but the Mnemosyne there is no such hesitation (even though it's nice paper).
https://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-N105-Notebook-A5-D...
Also, although I've been a fountain pen enthusiast for years (LAMY, TWSBI, Pilot), I find I can get the same quality of writing from a inky rolling ball pen like the Pilot Precise V5 RT. They're much cheaper and easier to carry around than a fountain pen.
https://www.target.com/p/pilot-3ct-precise-v5-rolling-ball-p...
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#59Leuchtturm paper bleeds like a napkin, so hopeless. Moleskine works. Hobonichi rules.
I got a Leuchtturm once out of curiosity. Could only use one side of each sheet. Sometimes it was so bad I had to leave a leaf entirely blank on both sides. Absolutely worthless paper. For a good a5 notebook we are spoiled for choice at that price point. I’ve been enjoying Yu-Sari lately. Where I struggle is finding good paper in a pocket notebook.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
> “The CEOs” and “the politicians” are not to blame if the entire system isn’t working. Yes they are. The CEOs and the boards are choosing to focus on maximizing short term profit over the wellbeing of the people in the countries they operate. That's a choice. And the politicians are directly responsible for setting up the rules under which such systems develop. That they allow companies to offshore to other countrie…
Both the politicians and the CEOs are only successful in direct proportion to how well the public responds to their decisions - buying their stuff, voting for their party. The public wanted cheap imported products, and so now that's what we have.
That's an overly simplistic picture. See for example recent tariffs of Chinese EVs to the US. The people buying EVs want cheaper models, but they get tarrifed just the same because the US manufacturers are complacent and far behind, yet again.
People vote against their own interests all the time, all you need is a little propaganda.