Moleskine'ing
For the last few years that ever so slightly odd coworker Cas has had a fetish for Moleskines (well, she's probably been harboring said fetish since early childhood - favoring the blackened round corners over Barbies anontomically incorrect bust, but I've only been working there ~3 years or so, and well - one really tries not to invade on ones fetish's do they?), yet despite my never ending search for the perfect notebook I never bothered to check them out.
It all changed with her recent Moleskinery Geekness post, followed shortly by Moleskine hacking, so off I go to Borders and picked up myself some midsized lined Moleskine goodness.
Following a somewhat free form variation of Rohdesign's Moleskine Planner I'm finding myself somewhat organized, sleeping better, and making sweet love with the ladies - no wait, that was the DVD I watched lastnight... Whilst I like the cute tabs, I'm not quite there yet - I think I'll leave the obsessive compulsive oddities to Cas ;-)
That being said, loving the Moleskine notebook and I'm currently working with a manual 'to do' list setup with:
- Squares for each item
- Tick's for completed items
- Horizontal strike-through for deferred items
- Cross for won't do items
- Personal/non-work items starting at the bottom of the page, work items at the top
I've even begun forcing myself to take notes during church in the Moleskine, not only do I now have reference to the messages to go back to, but I'm not falling asleep in church (I swear its a combination of no computer, the lighting, and not having to focus my eyes or actions on anything - I just drift off).
One of the somewhat interesting, but highly depressing results of these to do lists is seeing all of the seemingly small things I wanted to achieve in a day, and ending up only ticking off 1 or 2 of them, still - that just means I had something to prefill for the next day :)
Hopefully now I have the notebook, the muse will return and I'll find myself with some poetry and prose to also write down...
And yes, before anyone mentions it - cleaning the fridge is a deferred item - I'm kinda scared to go in there....
Hey great to hear the system working for you. Bill Westerman created that nice set of symbols that I made use of just using circles instead of squares. So, credit for those natuarally goes to Bill. :-)