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Jan 3 12

FIELD NOTES : Plain notes for planning by.

by nikbutler

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It was @DataInadequate who sent me my first few “Field Notes” in response to my usage of Moleskine Journals for blogging. At the time I decided against using them for the blog as I felt it would break the continuity of the books.

However I continued to carry the Field Notes notebooks  with me and they soon transplanted my moleskine journal as a means for occasional note and thought scribbling.

IMG_9067I am grateful that John introduced me Field Notes as until then I was carrying two moleskines around and the bulk of two books was too(hah) much. These slimmer memo books are a similar size if not depth to the Moleskine Journals and the paper and build quality of the notebooks is hard wearing and resilient to my in out, drop , place, cover, spill and walking lifestyle.

I start each new book with a thought on the front cover and when complete I review them for pertinent data that might need to be carried forward , in which case it is stored in @evernote and then the books are archived. I am not going back; I will continue to use my Moleskine for the purpose of writing the blog but I urge you to take a chance on Field Notes as an alternative. Somehow your thoughts feel like they are working if they are written between those brown covers.

 

Thanks for reading.

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Dec 28 11

A Little something everyday

by nikbutler

I cant remember when I thought that I was going to commit to writing and posting a new entry every day but it happened. As the project got older and the rhythm of words and pen strokes became addictive I realised that no matter how I felt the words inside wanted to escape and they wanted to find a type of permanence that a life in digital feels ill prepared to equip them for.

So it was that I gathered up my Moleskine and I set a new thought onto the pages every day this year and a few more in the year before. Now there are more than 365 posts and from the first to the current me expectations of what it means to use technology to communicate are rewritten in ink and communicated on a level that currently only  a human will be able to interpret. In the meanwhile I make robots and spiders blind and leave it to another human to find value and meaning in each post.

I like to think that the entries in Loudmouthman.posterous.com are leaving a trail of ideas and inspiration but I fear the lack of dancing kittens might be stalling the acceptance.

Thank you for reading them

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