Comments on: Pile of Fieldnotes http://pileofindexcards.org/blog/2007/01/27/pile-of-fieldnotes/ as a cultural genetic code Thu, 17 May 2012 23:14:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Hawk http://pileofindexcards.org/blog/2007/01/27/pile-of-fieldnotes/#comment-11 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:20:17 +0000 http://pileofindexcards.org/blog/2007/01/27/pile-of-fieldnotes/#comment-11 >>jon The fieldnote is good for hacking. It's cheep but high quality :) Thank you for mentioning David's calender. That is such a simple and nice! I have made my own calender as you see in the photoset. I will print the David's calender and put on the fieldnote :) >>jon

The fieldnote is good for hacking. It’s cheep but high quality :)

Thank you for mentioning David’s calender. That is such a simple and nice! I have made my own calender as you see in the photoset.

I will print the David’s calender and put on the fieldnote :)

]]> by: jon http://pileofindexcards.org/blog/2007/01/27/pile-of-fieldnotes/#comment-10 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:41:24 +0000 http://pileofindexcards.org/blog/2007/01/27/pile-of-fieldnotes/#comment-10 Thank you for adding the detailed photos of the Fieldnote book. I also found the link to Chika Chubb's pages useful. Especially this photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chubb3/275056215/ I don't like puting a pen inside a book and bending the pages! It's disrespectful to the notebook :)) I prefer to force a pen into the spine, the book doesn't mind that. I was also looking at Ciak Journals as an alternate to Moleskines. Not cheap either, but they have a soft back and so flex and bend. They have a band like your hack, across the book, but they seem to put a small notch in the cover edge. This helps hold the band in one palce. May I also suggest you look at this calendar: http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/12/14/compact-calendar-for-2007/ It's a superb idea for a calendar as a continous stream. You can build your one quickly on a spreadsheet. By printing the page as landscape, you can get a lot of room for making notes. I'm starting to capture future dates, especially anniversaries which as a bloke I normally ignore. By formatting the cells in different ways (bold, boxes, colour fills) I get a lot of useful info in a dense format. I now carry this calendar in my hPDA all the time. I think it's a fantastic tool. Thank you for adding the detailed photos of the Fieldnote book. I also found the link to Chika Chubb’s pages useful. Especially this photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chubb3/275056215/

I don’t like puting a pen inside a book and bending the pages! It’s disrespectful to the notebook :)) I prefer to force a pen into the spine, the book doesn’t mind that.

I was also looking at Ciak Journals as an alternate to Moleskines. Not cheap either, but they have a soft back and so flex and bend. They have a band like your hack, across the book, but they seem to put a small notch in the cover edge. This helps hold the band in one palce.

May I also suggest you look at this calendar:
http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/12/14/compact-calendar-for-2007/
It’s a superb idea for a calendar as a continous stream. You can build your one quickly on a spreadsheet. By printing the page as landscape, you can get a lot of room for making notes.

I’m starting to capture future dates, especially anniversaries which as a bloke I normally ignore. By formatting the cells in different ways (bold, boxes, colour fills) I get a lot of useful info in a dense format. I now carry this calendar in my hPDA all the time. I think it’s a fantastic tool.

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