Category: Idea
Young Fingers Thinking Early
An advertisement for Royal Typewriters from Life Magazine, January 6, 1941.
[Robert Stephens on Threads
Robert Stephens on Threads.
My Dad’s Lists
One of the motivations in my personal zeitgeist as I started this site was my long fascination with other people’s handwritten habits and styles. I recently not...
The Skills, Tools & Knowledge You’ll Need for 2020, 101, 61-70 – Nicholas Bate
“Don’t cheat on the quality of your (paper) notebook. It records your greatest work.” — – Nicholas Bate, The Skills, Tools & Knowled...
The Most Important Work
At the end of last year, I had the pleasure of reading Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography of Leonardo da Vinci. One of the things I was most struck by ...
Hand-Copying the Constitution
Friend of The Cramped Petey “Pete” Conklin sent me this especially timely New York Times article by Morgan O’Hara, an artist who began copying the Unites States...
The Daily Plan Bar – Rohdesign – Medium
The Daily Plan Bar – Rohdesign – Medium This past year I’ve started using a modified form of the Bullet Journal approach, using a dot grid notebook, thanks to a...
Some Indexing Methods for Notebooks
I recently found the need to create an index for my Commonplace notebook but was unsure of the best way to do so for my needs. So, I took a look around the Inte...
To a good home… | The Cramped
To a good home… I came up with a plan on how to distribute the slightly used notebooks and other items I am kindly sent for review. If you would like in on it c...