[HN Gopher] On keeping sketchbooks
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On keeping sketchbooks
Author : matt_kirkland
Score : 48 points
Date : 2023-08-22 19:42 UTC (1 days ago)
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| dallas wrote:
| Nice post! I've always kept a journal since using laboratory
| notebooks (and learning how to organise them) at uni. Over the
| decades I've settled on taking a notebook and running a bullet
| journal from the front page, in, and an "autofocus" to-do list
| from the back page, in. This year I'm hosting it inside a day-to-
| a-page Moleskine diary because I never really spill over one page
| for my daily log and I was going through three journals a year
| which incurs three-times setup overhead.
| kaycebasques wrote:
| I was very inspired by Dennis Dawson's "sketchnoting" lightning
| talk at Write The Docs Portland 2023:
| https://youtu.be/Bv6VlPBLPco?si=e9w9QcfOONV0AAoi
| denno020 wrote:
| I feel like hand written notes are great for people who are
| artistic.. I would love to take hand written notes, and be able
| to connect dots with lines on a page, draw diagrams, doodle etc,
| but I'm just so not creative enough. I need structure. I need my
| lines to be perfectly aligned and spaced, I want to be able to
| search for things that I would have written down, because I don't
| remember which notebook its in. I admire people who can/do take
| hand written notes. For me, I need a computer (or phone) to take
| notes in, digitally
| eternityforest wrote:
| Yeah, it's just such a cool image, the person with the notebook
| at the meeting, he's probably doing something cool, with the
| same media that a lot of my favorite works of art and technical
| things probably started on.
|
| He's got his job figured out so well it makes sense to have
| dedicated accessories and actually carry them around. He's a
| master of his tools, he must be really passionate about what
| he's doing(Or else he'd be staring at a screen). He's really
| _made it_.
|
| But the actual experience... feels like work. And creates
| physical artifacts, which is then even more work, and phones
| are so highly addictive it _really_ feels like work by
| comparision. Then if I go back and read them, I can 't, unless
| I was carefully paying attention to each individual letter as I
| write it.
|
| Not exactly something you can just pick up, it takes lots of
| experience to be able to write without being so distracted by
| trying to get your hand to make the letters that you stop
| paying attention...
|
| Really the only time I ever write on paper these days is
| tabletop RPGs, a few checklists for very high profile projects
| worth having both digital and analog versions of, and a play I
| volunteered for where real paper made the most sense for
| tracking cues on lines of the script.
| denno020 wrote:
| I agree! I love hand writing, I love the feel of pen in hand,
| and hand on paper, but it's so time consuming and inefficient
| for me, that it's not something I ever do
| sailorganymede wrote:
| I throw all my sketchbooks. I don't have a lot of space but
| whatever I do like, I cut them up and keep them in a "Big A3
| Book" (some terrible quality paper I bought form ASDA i refuse to
| touch cause it upset me)
| jeegsy wrote:
| I always started these but always stopped. Instead, there are a
| bunch of A4 sheets lying around that I've been using over the
| years!
| bagful wrote:
| I prefer taking notes one-sided on loose sheets; unlike a bound
| notebook, you can freely insert, remove, and re-arrange pages.
| Taken directly from the zettelkasten concept, I date each sheet
| for a unique identifier, and then notes in a series are
| numbered hierarchically, so that, for example, a page inserted
| between those numbered #1.1 and #1.2 would get the number
| #1.1.1 ; for storage, I staple or clip my stacks and stash them
| in a hanging file.
|
| For writing on the go, steno pads integrate well into this
| system; when I fill up a pad, I (eventually) unbind it and re-
| file the pages as if they were loose sheets.
| aviperl wrote:
| I've been doing more or less this with a small pocket size
| notebook since October. I admit that I initially fell for the
| romance of the idea and made an impulse purchase, but started to
| use them a couple of weeks after I bought them.
|
| I tried different formats and pre-planning and have basically
| made peace with my reality, that I don't know what I'll be doing
| in it on any given day. So I operate like a log, whatever is next
| comes next. Sequentially. But I'll also jump to a page, or two-
| page spread, for notes on a particular project.
|
| Here's what I use:
|
| Moleskine Cahier Journal, Soft Cover, Pocket (3.5" x 5.5")
| Dotted, Black, 64 Pages (Set of 3) https://a.co/d/9jXRxNt
|
| I also use a 4 color flexion erasable pen, but I can't recommend
| that since you're liable to lose all your notes if you leave it
| in a hot car. Not so bad though, it comes back if you stick it in
| the freezer. No joke.
| kwstas wrote:
| Posts like these make me wish I could be consistant and keep a
| single notebook until its done and then move to the next. I
| always end up starting a project or scibbling down a thought on
| random scraps of paper. I try to organize and consolidate but
| really there is not much point after the fact since, if the note
| is made, transfering it is just busywork.
|
| I leaned into it last couple of years, I have a 2 corkboards (a
| bit larger than A4 sized) on the back wall of my desk and I
| actually mounted a stationary clamp under one to have blank
| papers (A6) handy. It works pretty well until I fill them and
| move on to another notebook scrap paper etc.
|
| I wish I could stick to a notebook and have everything from each
| time period but I have too hectic thought process I think. Maybe
| I could somehow combine them...
| dallas wrote:
| I wouldn't sweat it... it's customary to start a new laboratory
| notebook for each project.
| NewsaHackO wrote:
| Have you thought about digitalizing them?
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