• I simply keep a small pocket notebook in my pocket at all times.
• I also keep a reliable pen in my pocket.
• It’s a bad idea to try to keep bits of information in your head.
• I write ideas and information down as soon as possible.
• I don’t organize these jottings at all.
• I separate jottings with a slash or a page break.
• Once a day – or more often – I review all of the jottings and deal with them.
• If a jotting is dealt with, I cross it out.
• If all jottings on a page are dealt with, I tear out the page.

It’s a good, straight-forward system, but I personally can’t deal with the part about tearing out the page. I really like keeping old to-do lists, and using notebooks that don’t have removable pages.

Read more at The Simple Dollar » A Look at My “Idea Notebook”, and don’t miss his other post, 14 Ways a Notebook in Your Pocket Can Save You Money.

The site has also organized an Urban Sketchers Symposium, to be held in Portland, OR, on July 29-31, 2010, with a custom Moleskine to commemorate the event.

Here’s a couple of screen shots from Egretlist, a to-do app that syncs with Evernote:

And here’s the icon and some screenshots from Do It Tomorrow, another to-do list program:

I guess it’s nice that they’re going for a very paper-ish, handwritten look, but I think I’d rather keep my electronic and paper worlds quite separate. I’ll take my own handwriting on real paper, and stick with plain fonts for digital text, thanks!

A fabulous notebook to record “notes for my daily life”. Designed by Japanese company Mark’s Inc., it has a smooth bright orange cover and comes with an elastic closure band to keep your book safe in your bag.

It has 300 lined pages each headed with space for the date. Whatever you’re doing this week, record it in this cool notebook.

* 16cm x 23cm
* 300 lined pages
* spiral bound
* elastic closure band

See more at Mark’s Inc Notes for my Daily Life Notebook.

Read more at Keeping a Field Notebook, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Deborah Siegel asked “What’s in Your Notebook” and got these amongst her responses:

Response
by Tania Prputniewicz

Notebooks I Have Known
by Kelly Jo

My Journals and Notebooks
by Cheryl Wright

Deborah also mentions “a great little post last month on notebooks filled with book lists… What’s in Your Red (or Yellow) Spiral Notebook?.”
Read more at She Writes on Fridays: Notebook Mash – She Writes.

This morning, as I began writing I started thinking about my good old Black ‘n Red. I thought, maybe I should go back and start writing in it again. It was kinda unfair that I abandoned it for this beautiful spankin’ new journal. I sighed at the image of it sitting on my desk forsaken and unused. How utterly sad.

Then I stopped – I interrupted that ridiculous train of thought and was shock to discover that I felt GUILTY! Within 15 seconds I had almost convinced myself my journal was offended and felt cast-off and forgotten. With a quickness I told my brain, “Listen here – that notebook is an inanimate object. The only life it possesses is what I give it!”

But what rich lives our notebooks have, whether we personify them or not, and regardless of which kind we choose at any given time. As the writer finally concludes, “I can write in any flippin’ notebook that I want!”

Read more at Killing Superwoman: Guilty of Being Guilty!.