Well, I may have finally succumbed to the lure of the Moleskine. Maybe. I’ve never bought one before as I just couldn’t justify spending so much money on what is basically just a notebook. I like to be able to randomly scribble ideas down, doodle thoughts everywhere and rip a bunch of sheets out when necessary. That results in a very messy notebook, and given how expensive and sturdy a Moleskine is, how could I possibly abuse it like that (and abuse my credit card in the process)?
However, now somebody has bought me one (probably to stop me from going on about them whenever I walked into a stationary shop). I now have my very own Moleskine and there are so many ideas out there on how it can be used, that I’m spoilt for choice. I’ve got a lot of research to do so I am going to start by doing a comprehensive list of all the hacks and approaches I’ve found so far. If you know of any others then please leave a link in the comment and I will add it to the list.
UPDATE: Please refer to my updated list of Moleskine hacks.
May 15, 2007 at 01:49AM
Man, I need to buy some stock in that company. They seem to get more free publicity…
May 15, 2007 at 08:46AM
They are a bit like the Apple of the stationary world. They certainly have the price to match anyways…
June 7, 2007 at 12:52PM
I like Moleskines, but just use index cards for my GTD so I got a Moleskine index card file. It was only $9.95 and will last quite some time as I shuffle index cards in and out of it. No need to replace it when it’s full, so it’s only as expensive as new index cards. No hacking necessary. There’s six files you can set up any way you wish. I have it as incoming, home, work, someday, waiting for and reference. This, a hPDA and a space pen and it’s my entire GTD system.
June 7, 2007 at 01:49PM
Didn’t realize they did a index card file. Is it the accordion file folder on their homepage? Either way it looks cool, will have to check it out.
June 9, 2007 at 10:36AM
Yes, the accordion file. It doesn’t hold a ton of cards, but I don’t need that many. If you need more, Mead and others have index card files as well.
November 23, 2008 at 09:27AM
Great links here. Thanks for sharing them. I just posted instructions for making a pen holder using the existing elastic band and a button. I can’t take credit for the idea, but I haven’t seen a post showing images of how it’s done.