Just curious. What do you write in your moleskines?

All my great, inspired ideas - so my Moleskine is blank! Just kidding. I use my moleskines for ideas, drawings, drafts of speeches, story ideas, character development, ToDos, etc. I've designed entire marketing campaigns in my moleskine, created drafts of a speech that I delivered to 230 people, and doodled some ideas that later became designs.

How about you?

Regards,
Vintner

Well my most recent Moleskine acquisition would be a diary (and by diary, I mean the best diary I've ever had), so I guess I tend to be writing a lot of events or important/useful information in it.

Why is it the best diary I've ever had? It fits so comfortably into my pocket, has all the lovable qualities of a Moleskine, and the week-view-on-left, lined-page-on-right approach really works for me.

I've never had a Moleskin, but I'm working on that. I'll let you know.

Notes, random thoughts, gift ideas, lists, lists of lists, etc.

I write lies in my counterfeit Moleskine.




Also responses to what I read in books and newspapers.

And when they're interesting enough, I record my dreams.

You know, journally stuff.

I use mine as a lab notebook for a materials science lab. Interesting, I know.

-Nkk

Every day stuff, journal may be..

Let's see..

Weather, work, politics, stock market, how the pen with particular ink
it is filled with work on moleskin, and of course family affairs just sums it up.

I am having so much fun with it that I am on my second moleskine book,
after five or so of non-moleskine book journals..

I am starting to add some sketches and poems..

Alan

I use my pocket notebooks (whether Moleskine or some counterfeit) for notes on things I want to remember when out and about, story ideas, project notes, quotes, shopping lists, books I want to read, little sketches, bits of overheard dialogue, record of expenses, etc. I was going to stop using pocket Mole-skinny kind of books and stick with just one large journal (a Miquelrius at the moment) for everything but shopping lists, but I just couldn't do it. Just before I finished my last (gen-u-wine) Moleskine cahier, I bought one of the Markings by C.R.Gibson pocket Moleskine copies (the one with black bonded leather), and I feel at peace again, even if all my thoughts are not in one tidy journal.

It is my catchall. I have grocery lists, list of pens and books or in some cases daily entries like a journal. In some I have sketches as well as diagrams and the like. Really it's just a pad of paper to me


Kurt

A daily journal and I use a cahier nb as a pocket notebook, for lists, to do's etc.. My daily journal is my "pensive" -see Harry Potter books

in the pocket moleskine : things to do, things that just happened, lists of stuff I like, pictures I draw (or paint or colour), phone numbers, e-mail addresses, pen and ink tests - it's a catch-all. I've always carried around some sort of notebook like this, moleskine or not.

in the large moleskine: life and all that, basically a continuation of the diary I started...mmm, 33 years ago. I don't know if I'll keep using a moleskine for this purpose though. I've had journals I like better for this purpose.

But I do like the pocket size for it durability and handy-ness.

Sketches, doodles, random things that I don't want to forget.

Here's a recent entry. I was testing out some watercolor pencils on top of ink lines.

I use my large Moleskine (I wish they made a bigger one) to jot down any interesting thoughts I have, whether it be related to story ideas or mechanisms that come to me, or more abstract musings. I don't use it for more intensive follow-up or exploration of those ideas, but mainly as a place to get down the concept in order to investigate/pursue it later.

I'm open to moving on to a better notebook, but honestly my experience with the paper has been fine so far, using Lamy Blue, Noodler's Black, and recently Montblanc British Racing Green. So I guess I won't worry about finding a replacement until I actually have a problem with what I've got.

Edit: Oh, and nice work there, rcannonp, that is pretty sweet!

I use a middle-sized stiff-bound Moleskine as my diary (journal diary, not calendar diary) right now. Mostly stuff that I may want to go back and recall details about either weeks or years from now. I am moving on to something different when that is full, however. The paper is too inconsistent and generally bad, and the ruling is a tad too close for my tastes. I have already bought other alternatives to try out when that time comes: Habana Quo Vadis, for instance.

Depends on which style you are referring to in the question. I have a weekly planner that I use for appointments and keeping up with my account at Edward jones.
I used an Info Book as a daily jurnal for our trip to the West that lasted 19 days. Since there were 21 pages per section it was a perfect fit. In my back pocket,too. Plus the pocket inside the back cover was great for keeping up with reciepts during the day.
I have cahiers that I use for specifics. One for monthly bills. One page/month. I carry one in my pocket at all times for shopping lists and other things too numerous to mention.
I foolishly got away from the simple notebook as journal but will return when i have filled the non-Moleskine I am using now. I got turned off by the lined paper not being FP friendly but like the blank page ones. Haven't tried the sketchbook yet. It might ne even better.
All the above mentioned books are the pocket sized.

I actually use four Moleskines on a regular basis. I write in a large, ruled moleskine every day - a journal, but not overly creative, mostly a simple record of the day's activities and events. I also carry a small gridded moleskine for notes, thoughts, and ideas.

For more creative uses, I have a small, red, lined moleskine for poetry and a large sketchbook for sketching (actually, because my drawing skills are so poor, I end up doing more collages than drawings).

For example:



(from Flickr)

I use a small pocket sized moleskine for daily use - todo lists etc - it's my Getting Things Done (GTD) tool. I cobbled together my own system after reading various posts such as:

http://lifehacker.com/software/getting-thi...cked-224816.php
http://hyalineskies.com/2006/11/hacking-a-gtd-moleskine/

Also, whenever I go abroad, I carry a pocket-sized cahier with me which ends up with maps, telephone numbers, etc etc of stuff I got up to.

It's a jumble. Whatever I'm thinking about that I don't want to let float away.

Might be practical stuff like to-do's and grocery lists, technical stuff like backpacking gear comparisons and field notes, or weighty thoughts, or just ramblings. I often use mine to "think out loud."

The large size gets used for more typical journal purposes -- thoughts, plans, poetry, like that. A lot of "thinking out loud;" I find that larger size more conducive for that purpose.

The small, hip-pocket size is used more for the practical stuff like lists. But when I don't have the large one with me, it serves as a repository for journal entries, until I can transfer them into the large one. Most make it, some never do; upon reflection, it's not a journal entry after all, but one of the practical entries, which can stay right there.

Changes going on: I recently filled up a reporter's notebook, and I am carrying a Field Notes book instead. It is certainly more comfortable; I never know it is there. A lot fewer pages, but if I were a former cahier user, I wouldn't notice that as much. I like the paper, I like the style, we'll just have to see if I like it in the long run. Durability and utility remain to be seen. But so far so good.

When I finish up my current large Moleskine, I am going to try one of the $5 Piccadilly jobbies from Borders. The review on Black Cover sounded pretty good. I try other notebooks from time to time. So far, I keep coming back to Moleskine, as it does what I want it to do (and I never have had the problem with bleed-through etc. that others talk about.) But we shall see; some day I may try one I really like better. I would like to try the Ciak and Cartesio also.

I use a Moleskine pocket calendar (medium size, don't know how many inches). That's what brought me to Moleskine: They have so many different kinds of calendars that I found one that gives me the space I need, but isn't too large and thick to carry around.

Sometimes a pocket Moleskine for notes, lists, what-to-dos.

I've been trying Moleskine volant for notes at home, all kinds of things I want to remember. The rubber band on the standard Moleskine is not well suited for use on a desk.

Journal

I use the XL cahiers with grid sheets - mainly for lecture notes which tend to include graphs and population pyramids (I'm a demographer).

I also seem to find meeting notes and phone numbers there... so it seems to get used for all sorts.

Often two or more colours of ink on any page.

A few weeks ago, I realized that alot of my notes - To Dos, Books to read, things to get, general info, were stored on my Blackberry, and to make matters worse, I hadn't synched it with my computer in months. One bad drop and all that info would go bye-bye. I picked up a Moleskin and started transferring alot of that into it. I also started writing descriptions of hikes I go on, along with an obligatory (bad) Haiku for each hike.

I use my Moleskine (smallest-size fitting nicely into my T-shirt pocket) basically for biggest things: shopping list, price collection of various laptops, URLs noted somewhere, dates re medical doctor.
Smallest things come on bigger paper.

Mike

The pocket plain goes to a mix between an datebook and a selection of doddles on to dos, interesting things I see/do, phone numbers etc.

The large plain is used for more serious writing when I can do it and lastly the address book is used to store all the difficult words I have never seen before and their definitions after I check them out.