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 Field Notes brand reporter's notebook

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.

Author: Joseph Dickson

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

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