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How I went to buy a pda and ended up with a notebook

Last week I got desparate at having all todo things on tiny Post-It notes and went to buy a pda/phoone. I was looking at Sony Ericsson P1i with its nice pda capabillites and WLAN. But the screen resolution was not as good as some larger pda’s and I already have a Sony-Ericsson mobile phone. Then I thought there must be reason why market for pda’s are gooing down all the time. Sure, Blackberries and phones like Sony-Ericsson P1 has taken some potential customers, and also gps enabled devices like a Garmin iQue. But I think a part of the real reason is that it feels better to write on paper.

Later on that day a went to a bookstore and bought a nice calender with a rubber band to hold it together. It is not high-tech but the paper feeling spells q-u-a-l-i-t-y. When I came home I did a google search for my calender mark ‘Moleskine‘ to see what else they produce and to my surprise found lots of pages with ‘Moleskine hacks’, i.e. how to find the optimal way to write stuff into your notebook. A new world opened in front of me (okey, that was an exagoration). It’s kind of nerdish, but it’s fun.

Next day I went back to the bookstore and bought small notebook (Moleskine Small Plain Notebook) to hack and second larger notebook (Moleskine Reporter) for drawings, mindmaps and stuff. Together with my black, blue and red Pilot G2 gel pens they make an exellent way to capture ideés. When they come that is. Which is another problem, I’ll come back to that.