Living inside my notebook
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I love postcards.
Email and flickr are nice, but paper can be laid out across a much larger display area, for so much less.
@blogme - little ideas for blog posts get stuck here, sorted, expanded, written, and posted.
"real designers deliver."
"If something is hard to use, I just don't use it as much." - Steve Krug, "Don't Make Me Think"
Notes - Interface (reading notes from Raskin, Tognazini, usability articles, whatever)
Notes - Psych (Reading notes from Norman, other cogsci and neurology stuff)
Doodles - one of the neat things about keeping a house full of index cards is that people doodle on them, and I end up with the doodles, which I *love*.
Old lists - I've filled and replaced this envelope twice since taking this photograph; I've started saving old lists. Just because something about the texture of the scribbled-out writing looks cool.
Digital Ground cards.
Some of the side notes in the book Digital Ground are more like koans than illustrations. I've copied some of them onto cards, and go through them regularly whenever I feel like I know what I'm talking about, because it reminds me that I don't.
My friend Aaron sent me this card from Rome, years ago. Still have it.
More than I can say for the email from that year.
index-card sized business cards are more useful when other people carry Hipster PDA's.
Less so in the world of sane people.
This semacode worked fine on my monitor.
When printed, it's too small for the cameraphone to resolve.
This is one of the walls of my studio. See the notes for annotation.
You may have noticed that all the coin envelopes are binder-clipped in the same corner. That makes them hang at a specific angle off a push-pin, which allows you to cover a wall with them with some nice density, without needing a ruler.
This is just one of the bulletin boards covering the walls; I keep my reading notes, scribbles, and other oddments here.
Alastair Cockburn calls displays like this "information radiators," and the connotations that conjures up are exactly right.
Another wall holds my "Someday/Maybe" list, split into categories like "movies to watch, books to read, places to visit." And another holds my "agenda" envelopes. It's more attractive than the pictures really show, and offers a wonderful information density and overview that I've yet to match.
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Comments
this is so cool, i love looking at stuff like this :)
Posted 32 months ago.
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Thanks.
I used to try to use a "standard" index card file, with tabs, but ran into the "out of sight, out of mind" problem.
Other people may be able to remember what's behind the tabs, but I have to be able to look at the topmost (most recent) card to keep my memory updated.
Posted 32 months ago.
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seriously man
i love seeing stuff like this
i don't feel as strange.
people wonder why theres this guy whos always writing in his stack of index cards and talking about his someday/maybe's.
PS - you have this nice red binder clips in one of these pics and you totally got that from a staples - cause i use the white one for my hipsterpda.
Posted 30 months ago.
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I love how that wave is breaking into rabbits.
Posted 28 months ago.
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Heh. Yeah... that's a sketch that came with the full-size poster.
Which is still in a tube, unframed. :P
Posted 28 months ago.
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Please marry me. Thank you.
Posted 26 months ago.
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Already married, I'm afraid... :)
Posted 26 months ago.
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Wow, you're so organised. My tool is an A5 notebook that I write, and rewrite my lists into. But once the corners get dog-eared, I lose motivation.
Posted 26 months ago.
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One option for old lists and doodles are collages. I've been playing around with grabbing favorites and tiling them a few times a year.
Posted 24 months ago.
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I use a binder clip/t-pin combo myself -- love the look of your wall.
Posted 24 months ago.
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great pic, I blogged it.
Posted 22 months ago.
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i'm inspired!
Posted 19 months ago.
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petter rabbit!
my fav!
Posted 11 months ago.
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rodavlaS İlaD [deleted] says:
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Masters of the Words / CONTEST: One Word , and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 2 months ago.
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I've just used this "organised" picture in a blog post called "11 Things to do With Your Cameraphone While You Wait " over at the Beyond Phototips blog. Do check it out!
I'm usually in a mess with my notes, you've given me something to think about. Thanks.
Posted 7 days ago.
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