I recently picked up a new Moleskin to take to meetings in place of my somewhat tatty ‘classroom’ style notepads and soon realised it’s too late, I can’t go back.
£7 Moleskin verses 60p ‘school’ notepad
It was around two years ago when I switched from Moleskin and Moleskin-esq notepads to plain old basic classroom style notepads.
It’s just paper
This wasn’t a deliberate change. Story goes that I was out of notepads for a meeting and had to buy something new on-the-run so I hopped into a local stationary supplier and picked up the simplest thing going.
Soon my love affair for these cheap somewhat disposable notepads started:
A recent collection from the past 12 months
They may look tatty but these agile little notepads are better than a Moleskin in many, many ways:
- Malleable and easy to hold
- Lighter and thinner
- Cheap (60p each!)
- You can make as much mess as you like
Going back to a rigid, expensive and “premium” Moleskin notepad feels all wrong. It’s difficult to hold, heavy and unwieldy and the paper no longer “feels right” and worst of all I find that I judge myself on any mistake or bad sketch I make as if I’ve desecrated the paper!
My advice – ditch the Moleskin, free your notes.
I totally resonate with this view Kimb. I too have been a Moleskine snob over the years, it’s almost standard now that everyone pulls out the Moleskines to be taken seriously.
I am going to follow your lead, for all the reasons you mentioned. The additional one is if I lose a Moleskine, there is a lot of content in it, sometimes over a years worth of things I wouldn’t want to be in the public domain. Smaller books equals less potential impact of a loss.
I will stick with the concept, but in retro books, such a great idea, I might even use pencil again.
Now, the question is:- do we cover them in wallpaper like we used to at school?
I totally resonate with this view Kimb. I too have been a Moleskine snob over the years (among other brands), it’s almost standard now that everyone pulls out the Moleskines as a status symbol.
I am going to follow your lead, for all the reasons you mentioned. The additional one is if I lose a Moleskine, there is a lot of content in it, sometimes over a years worth of things I wouldn’t want to be in the public domain. Smaller books equals less potential impact of a loss.
I will stick with the concept in these retro books. Such a great idea, I might even use pencil again.
Now, the question is:- do we cover them in wallpaper like we used to at school?
I totally resonate with this view Kimb. I too have been a Moleskine snob over the years, it’s almost standard now that everyone pulls out the Moleskines as a status symbol.
I am going to follow your lead, for all the reasons you mentioned. The additional one is if I lose a Moleskine, there is a lot of content in it, sometimes over a years worth of things I wouldn’t want to be in the public domain. Smaller books equals less potential impact of a loss.
I will stick with the Bullet Journal concept in these retro books. Such a great idea, I might even use pencil again.
Now, the question is:- do we cover them in wallpaper like we used to at school?