Top Coast Sketchnotes
Last weekend, I had the opportunity to attend the MPR News Top Coast Festival. I thought it was the perfect opportunity to give Sketchnoting the event a spin. S...
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Hybrid Journal / James Gowans
Hybrid Journal / James Gowans I have a long and rocky relationship with pen and paper. Ive often romanticized the idea of keeping a paper journal to record the ...
The Noguchi filing system | Unclutterer
The Noguchi filing system | Unclutterer Years ago, I worked in the IT department of a residential school. There was a lot to manage, from help desk requests to ...
Slower Posts This Week…
Just a heads up that I (Patrick Rhone — Editor In Chief) will be in San Francisco this week participating in Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference as pa...
Why We Write
“We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.” — Cecil Day Lewis
Paper Based Markup Systems
by Patrick Rhone I’ve long been fascinated with the various methods and organizational systems people use to take notes. I’ve even been known to spo...
Turn a Blank Notebook into a Lined Notebook | The Well-Appointed Desk
Turn a Blank Notebook into a Lined Notebook | The Well-Appointed Desk I have something so much better, at least in my humble opinion. I use a sheet of lined pap...
Starter Pencil Setups #PencilWeek #Erasable | Pen Paper Ink LetterPen Paper Ink Letter
Starter Pencil Setups #PencilWeek #Erasable | Pen Paper Ink LetterPen Paper Ink Letter That’s why unlike, say, a coffee starter kit, a pencil primer shouldn’t b...
Fountain Pen Guide For The Left-Handed Writer
by Ana Reinert Left-handed writers face some challenges when writing, but I don’t think fountain pens make it worse. If anything, I’ve found that my handwriting...
The Writing Tools of 20 Famous Authors – Flavorwire
The Writing Tools of 20 Famous Authors – Flavorwire Just like it says on the tin. I had forgotten the fact that Mark Twain made his own (very handsome and smart...