This a picture of my Rodchenko notes, my meeting notes are all a bit longer but a bit more confidential.
In my continual quest to become uber organised, I have recently ditched Moleskine's in favour of note taking on my Jesus Phone.
This has several advantages.
1. Less stuff to carry around.
2. When it's done, it's done. No typing up the notes.
3. You can email the meeting notes to the client as you leave the building. When they arrive back at their desk, it's in their inbox. Trust me, this impresses clients.
The only problem is that I have to start every meeting with "Sorry, I'm not txting, I'm taking notes" which makes me sound like a wally.
I tried that, but then my Jesus phone just broke one day, and took all my notes with it. My Moleskine (so far) hasn't ever 'just broken'. Might be one more thing to carry around, but its a nice thing!
Posted by: Jam | May 30, 2008 at 11:57
It's No-Tec for me too. But good luck Ben.
Posted by: Richard | May 30, 2008 at 12:09
Whenever I'm wandering around, I find the iPhone ideal for taking impromptu notes. I occasionally do the same in meetings.
Then I email them to my Evernote account.
Oh, and regarding apologies.. shouldn't everyone else be apologising to you for not using an iPhone ;-)
Posted by: Chris | May 30, 2008 at 12:21
I doubt most digital note-taking technologies are mature enough to capture what can be done with pen and paper. They invariably impose some structure that is more geared towards making it easy for the computer to handle the data rather than making it easy for the user to express their ideas.
See for example this picture:
http://flickr.com/photos/peninah/2468093723/
Someone decided to draw thumbnail-version of their everyday clothing choices in a calendar grid. Try doing that in any computer based calendar.
Also, Adaptive Path have released notes from their recent conference in a raw graphic format which, for me, is infinitely more valuable than a list of bullet-points. See:
http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/05/28/mx-conference-graphic-guide-conference-notes-now-available/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/intelleto/tags/graphicrecording/
Posted by: Alexander Baxevanis | May 30, 2008 at 12:40
Those notes from the Adaptive Path conference are amazing.
It is restricting because I can't sketch, yes.
Posted by: Ben | May 30, 2008 at 12:47
Doesn't make you look as much of a wally as that coat did last night.
Posted by: Tom | May 30, 2008 at 13:10
you mean you ACTUALLY USE A FEATURE on your iPhone? Well, feck me...
Posted by: bob | May 30, 2008 at 13:17
Once the whole digital paper thing become affordable, I'm kind of hoping that Apple buy Moleskine and the 2012 iPhone will be a hybrid of the two. Maybe called the iMole... iSkine... Molephone...
Moleskine really is an annoying word isn't it?
Posted by: Daniel | May 30, 2008 at 13:31
maybe you could make a little sign that you take to your meetings. or a t-shirt: 'i'm not texting, i'm making notes'. at least you'd be a wally with a nice typeface.
Posted by: lauren | May 30, 2008 at 15:01
He only wears pink shirts Lauren.
Posted by: Tom | May 30, 2008 at 15:29
Can you type quickly enough on that phone? I find it quite tricky. But then I have sausage fingers. Good when you're hungry, bad when you're typing.
Posted by: dan | May 31, 2008 at 23:38
I can manage OK. My fingers are small and dainty. Like, er, Little Bo Peep's fingers. Maybe.
Posted by: Ben | Jun 01, 2008 at 09:06
HA! Jesus Phone. Love it. I love the notes feature on my iPhone. Now if just AT&T could improve reception in my area...
Posted by: Peter Sullivan | Jun 05, 2008 at 18:00