Author: Joseph Dickson

Joseph Dickson is a front-end web developer with experience building higher education websites using ClassicPress, WordPress, and Drupal.

Tip: Writing in a Reporter’s Notebook

A trick to review your notes quickly. Lay the notebook to the first clean spread. Grip the rings and fold the notebook over with the rings at bottom. The top page will appear upside down. Next, grip the rings again and flip the rings away from you, to reveal the bottom page upright.

A trick for rapid top to bottom note taking and review using a reporter’s notebook or steno pad.

  1. Lay the notebook to the first clean spread.
  2. Grip the rings and fold over. The top page will be upside down. Write.
  3. Next, grip the rings again and flip the rings away from you revealing the bottom page upright.
  4. Open the spread and review your completed notes top page to to bottom.
A Field Notes brand reporter's notebook
A Field Notes brand Front Page reporter’s notebook
A Reporter's notebook open rings at bottom of page.
For the top page, rings facing bottom towards the writer. The page should appear upside down. Flip the book over, rings away from the writer for the second page of the spread.
A reporter's notebook open to a spread, text can be reviewed upright top to bottom.
The finished spread can be reviewed top to bottom.

Watch how to flip the notebook on YouTube.

Traveler’s Notebook for all the things

  • Traveler’s Notebook
  • Pilot Prera, medium nib
  • Noodler’s Brown Ink

This July I’m testing out my Traveler’s Notebook as one notebook to rule them all. Ink and pen will vary through the month.

Setup

  • A Lightweight 013 insert for personal writing
  • A Dot Grid 026 insert for work

Update: Noodler’s Brown doesn’t pair well with the 013 insert while it handles 026 just fine. The inverse it true with Pilot Iroshizuku Fuyu-gaki. I’ll need a pen for each insert. Noodler’s Smudges easily on 013 and Iroshizuku bleeds through 026.