reaganmarsh
Puritan Board Senior
Greetings PB brethren,
This may surprise you, given that I give the heads-up on a lot of ebooks around here, but I don't really care for ebooks. I read them because they're free and I can't afford the printed copy. But my definite preference is for physical resources.
That being said, I have a question for you. In my normal work day, I'll be in the Study for roughly half the day, and making visits/in meetings (hospital, home, evangelistic, etc.) for roughly the other half. That means I take notes.
For the last 7 years or so, I've carried Moleskine-knockoff-type pocket notebooks. I like these notebooks because they're hard bound & thus fairly durable, they provide plenty of paper, you can set them up for the endless variations of GTD, there's space for jotting down a flash of insight re: the sermons when it comes, etc.
What drives me nuts about them is that, once you've used a page for a quick grocery list, or directions somewhere, or whatever one-time-use you have it available for, you still get to tote that useless page around until the notebook is full. I can (and often do) tear out the page, but the way these notebooks are bound, to tear one page is to lose at least one more somewhere else. Do that very many times, and you're losing pages every time the book comes out of your pocket or opens.
So from the beginning, I've found myself also carrying a small stack of index cards inside the cover. And I've found that I like the index cards better for the vast majority of my note-taking during these meetings. I can make my notes, or jot down pertinent info (i.e., a passage of Scripture for a counselee to consider, or for an inquirer to study re: who Christ is, etc.). Of course, they fall out of the notebook just as readily as the loose pages (and yes, I've used rubber bands, paper clips, binder clips, etc., and haven't been happy with any of them). And that brings me to the point of this post.
I've just this week come across something called a shirt-pocket briefcase which is basically a small leather case which holds regular 3x5 cards. It has 2-3 pockets so you can file the cards to follow up once you're back at your desk. You toss or file the card once you've handled the info it captured. This sounds like an excellent idea, and maybe I'm just a lemming or late to the party, but I've been home sick this week and found myself thinking 1) this would be really helpful, 2) why haven't I heard of this before, 3) I wonder if any of the PB'ers use/have used something along these lines?
So given those questions, I've found a couple of options. A company called Levenger makes a "shirt pocket briefcase" which is absurdly expensive but looks really nice (though I just found a reasonable price on it here: http://m.ebay.com/itm/381457689835?...92&_trksid=p2141725.c100338.m3726&_mwBanner=1). Or Amazon has any number of knockoffs: this one looks interesting https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00F..._1_1?colid=3MLE6X8W486CG&coliid=IFZCXT7IWAB2P, this one has only one pocket but is reasonably priced https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009...C_UL100_SR100,65_&refRID=8EP0S4C0CB222FSX59ES, and this one is the same basic idea too https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000..._UL100_SR100,100_&refRID=2KTAVY046HC2NJTR9D1M.
What are your thoughts? What do you use? Are these ridiculous?
Such a strange thing to think about, isn't it?
This may surprise you, given that I give the heads-up on a lot of ebooks around here, but I don't really care for ebooks. I read them because they're free and I can't afford the printed copy. But my definite preference is for physical resources.
That being said, I have a question for you. In my normal work day, I'll be in the Study for roughly half the day, and making visits/in meetings (hospital, home, evangelistic, etc.) for roughly the other half. That means I take notes.
For the last 7 years or so, I've carried Moleskine-knockoff-type pocket notebooks. I like these notebooks because they're hard bound & thus fairly durable, they provide plenty of paper, you can set them up for the endless variations of GTD, there's space for jotting down a flash of insight re: the sermons when it comes, etc.
What drives me nuts about them is that, once you've used a page for a quick grocery list, or directions somewhere, or whatever one-time-use you have it available for, you still get to tote that useless page around until the notebook is full. I can (and often do) tear out the page, but the way these notebooks are bound, to tear one page is to lose at least one more somewhere else. Do that very many times, and you're losing pages every time the book comes out of your pocket or opens.
So from the beginning, I've found myself also carrying a small stack of index cards inside the cover. And I've found that I like the index cards better for the vast majority of my note-taking during these meetings. I can make my notes, or jot down pertinent info (i.e., a passage of Scripture for a counselee to consider, or for an inquirer to study re: who Christ is, etc.). Of course, they fall out of the notebook just as readily as the loose pages (and yes, I've used rubber bands, paper clips, binder clips, etc., and haven't been happy with any of them). And that brings me to the point of this post.
I've just this week come across something called a shirt-pocket briefcase which is basically a small leather case which holds regular 3x5 cards. It has 2-3 pockets so you can file the cards to follow up once you're back at your desk. You toss or file the card once you've handled the info it captured. This sounds like an excellent idea, and maybe I'm just a lemming or late to the party, but I've been home sick this week and found myself thinking 1) this would be really helpful, 2) why haven't I heard of this before, 3) I wonder if any of the PB'ers use/have used something along these lines?
So given those questions, I've found a couple of options. A company called Levenger makes a "shirt pocket briefcase" which is absurdly expensive but looks really nice (though I just found a reasonable price on it here: http://m.ebay.com/itm/381457689835?...92&_trksid=p2141725.c100338.m3726&_mwBanner=1). Or Amazon has any number of knockoffs: this one looks interesting https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00F..._1_1?colid=3MLE6X8W486CG&coliid=IFZCXT7IWAB2P, this one has only one pocket but is reasonably priced https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009...C_UL100_SR100,65_&refRID=8EP0S4C0CB222FSX59ES, and this one is the same basic idea too https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000..._UL100_SR100,100_&refRID=2KTAVY046HC2NJTR9D1M.
What are your thoughts? What do you use? Are these ridiculous?
Such a strange thing to think about, isn't it?
I feel pathetic.
