Recording Thoughts

Recording Thoughts: Improve your life with pen & paper

  • Business notes – loose pages or notebook?

    Yes, I know. You’re looking at me thinking I’m some kind of luddite. Here we are, sitting in a meeting and you’ve got your tablet out and I’ve got my pen and paper. Yes, I work with software, databases, and data visualization, and therefore I should be technologically adept. I am. I also enjoy reaping…

  • Only girls keep diaries

    When I was a boy I didn’t keep a journal because back then I didn’t know what a journal was, I knew what a diary was. Diaries were kept by girls, not boys in my mind. I thought about starting one and calling it a log book. Later I learned that another term was journal,…

  • Don’t Make This Mistake – Pen And Paper On Choosing A House

    A few years ago we bought our new house in Kentucky. We looked at a lot of houses. It’s hard enough to find a new place in a region that is familiar, but in a new state it’s even more challenging. I kept bringing a notebook thinking the notes would be helpful in making a…

  • XYark – Adult-sized Field Notes?

    So a long while back I used to journal in the pocket size Moleskine notebooks – the ubiquitous black hardcover ones. They worked pretty well but I slowly moved up the sizes until I was using the Leuchtturm1917 master dots size. A great size with lots of space, but hard to carry anywhere, so I…

  • Recording Thoughts Reboot

    Welcome to the reboot of Recording Thoughts! Back in March of 2005 I started a blog called Recording Thoughts where I wrote about pens and paper, journaling and writing, and how to record thoughts in general. I posted off and on up until about 2016 when life circumstances meant I just couldn’t writ much. It…

  • Moleskine XL review

    When I moved from the usual A5 size notebook to the Leuchtturm 1917 Master Dots it was quite a shock, but one I got over and I quickly got used to the extra space. But that book is pretty massive, and just to big to find in many bags. So then it was the BookFactory…

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