Comments on: 5 Small Lessons Learned From Carrying a Notebook Everywhere

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:52:05 +0000

Hey Suzann! I have a solution for you: a waterproof notebook. :)

http://www.waterproof-paper.com/waterproof-field-book.html

By: Suzann

Suzann — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:23:15 +0000

I’ve been keeping notebooks since I was in grade school. The only place you can’t take one with you is into the shower. But other than that … yes, the car. I will pull the car over or turn into a parking lot and then write down the idea. The ideas fly by so fast, that if I don’t catch them right away they are often gone forever.

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:23:38 +0000

Hi Steven! Couldn’t agree more – ideas certainly come in strange places.

What do you usually do when you get an idea while driving? Do you stop and write it down, or do you try to memorize it until you stop the next time?

By: Steven Aitchison

Steven Aitchison — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:06:41 +0000

I have lost a lot of ideas by not carrying a notebook. I find it carrying a notebook helps me with articles I am writing for my blog, I drive a lot and ideas come about in some strange places.

By: Olesya

Olesya — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:05:29 +0000

Thank u! You know, the second one is about me. It helps me to keep ideas for my next stories, when I was a child I had such special box with cards and put my ideas on them. But now I just use notebook and I like it.

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:24:28 +0000

Thanks, Myscha! That sounds like a really good thing to use a notepad for.

By: Myscha Theriault

Myscha Theriault — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:37:56 +0000

Oops. The last block was blocked by another graphic so I had to “type in the dark”. Sorry. Still loved your post, though.

By: Myscha Theriault

Myscha Theriault — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:36:58 +0000

Hi Jarkko. Fun post. I noticed your comment on my soup toppings post on Wise Bread and thought I’d visit your space. My husband and use the pad and paper thing traveling quite a bit. When charades don’t work communicating an idea in a foreign country, picturionary seems to work every time.

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:15:23 +0000

Matti, sorry I missed you when replying to comments. I’m not sure about the brand of my notebook as it doesn’t have any text on it.

I’ll go to Suomalainen Kirjakauppa to get a new one today so I’ll check if the wrapping has some info on it…

My pen is a Pilot G-2. Currently I’m using a blue one although a black pen was better with my clothes ;)

Reko: That’s a tough decision to make. Books or sketching. I’d pick books, but that’s just because I’m not “quite” as artistic as you are and enjoy reading more than drawing…

By: Reko

Reko — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:48:46 +0000

Hi :) I actually found it ages ago, but my blog reading is very on/off affair nowadays so I usually just have to read a ton of older articles to catchup :) I don’t think the helsinki subway sketch group is alive anymore, the most active ones are over the atlantic. But I’ve been sort of thinking about it especially now since I take the tube down to work nowadays. I’d just have to replace my love for reading books while travelling to sketching :)