RE: Hand written journals

I like the bound Clairefontaine books.   They come in a variety of sizes,
from little pocket-sized things on up.  The paper is good quality.   But
I've also used plain old composition notebooks, too, and wouldn't be too
proud to use them again.  I have used Rite-in-Rain books.

For bicycling I like books of a size to fit in my handlebar bag.  I have a
cover to put over my handlebar bag when it's raining.  (It's the larger of
the Arkel bags.)

I don't like spirals of any kind.  They are nice in that they lay open
easily, but they snag on pants pockets and/or various stuff in my
handlebar bag or elsewhere.

I number my notebooks, and number the pages consecutively in the upper
left or upper right corner of each page, where also I note the date.  Page
numbers go across notebook volumes.  When I start a new notebook, I start
page numbers where the previous notebook left off.  Those page numbers
make handy references and cross-references, and sometimes end up in my
computer databases and/or spreadsheets.   For reasons that aren't entirely
clear to me at the moment, I number the tiny pocket books separately from
the bigger notebooks.    Well, I guess a reason is that sometimes I'll
have two current notebooks -- a tiny pocket one and a larger handlebar
one.

These notebooks are not just for bicycling.  They're for everything.   I
do keep a separate series at work, though, and don't mix work and personal
notebooks very much.

And yes, I do also take notes on my DroidX -- mostly to-do items. The
DroidX has more or less replaced the little pocket books, which I hadn't
been using so much in recent years, anyway.  But the larger paper
notebooks provide a tactile, visual, chronological record of where I've
been and what I've done.  Nothing in them gets deleted, and pages don't
get rearranged like can happen with computer notes.

John Gorentz
www.spokesrider.com


> I buy any spiral ring steno pad or notebook (grocery store or drug store)
> that fits in the gallon freezer bag.  I'd just leave it shoved in the
> outside of my pannier (maybe a rain cover in heavy rain), never got wet
> once.  I'd keep the current map in there too.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> MH
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 6:56 AM
> To: Touring
> Subject: Hand written journals
>
> Any suggestion on notebooks to hand write a touring report type journal?
>
> Never took notes bicycle camping before.
> Thought I'd get a medium sized spiral notebook.
> Any suggestion that would be better would be great!
>
> Thank you,
> -Mark Hoagy
>
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