Moleskine Hacks (Analog Blog)
on 01.24.05, 07:28am in life • comments (3)
[Fred's Security Vortex] Personally I was interesting to try to use some of these ideas, enhancing them, and use my Moleskines as an analog blog. Okay, it can seem crazy, it can seem really, really geek (and it is) but I’m curious to found if it can be effective and practical.
Interesting concept, although it seems a bit too complicated for my Moleskine usage. I did, however, go ahead and ‘implement’ the following hacks to my moleskine:
- Table of Contents. I left the first 3 pages blank for a TOC that I fill in with each new entry.
- Page Numbering. Each right-hand facing page after the TOC gets a number in the upper corner. If a thought doesn’t complete the page, has a ‘virtual quadrant’ (as described here) and I use the -> for "continued on" and <- for "continued from".
- Moleskine Multi-tab Hack (more here): I put in 3 Avery Write-On Tabs - Tech/Projects, Personal and Dump. The "dump" tab is just for short snippets of things I want to blog about, books I want to eventually read, quick thoughts, etc.
Up to now, this system has been working for me. It’ll be interesting to see how it progresses and changes over the next few months.




Willem Odendaal (January 25, 2005 @ 1:05 am)
I’ve been following your moleskine posts and it got me interested enough to find some in South Africa. Very cool indeed.
After reading this post I had to laugh. Only a full-blooded geek can add ‘virtual quadrants’ and ‘multi-tab hacks’ to an old fashioned paper notebook.
Just a playful jab
You should see what my daily ‘todo’ list looks like.
l.m.orchard (January 25, 2005 @ 4:24 am)
Well, if you *really* want to see what a full-blooded geek can do with paper and journals…
“How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think”
http://www.speakeasy.org/~lion/nb/html/
Don’t say I didn’t warn you though.
Abizer (April 7, 2005 @ 3:49 am)
Rather than leave the first three pages blank, I just add the ToC at the back. I start at the top of the last page and just keep adding entries.
It also keeps a clear diving line between content and toc