Idea Organizing Solution
I’ve always been using Rhodia notepads to keep my ideas organized. Lately, I’ve been working on a redesign of my personal homepage and have been using the notepads quite often. After using about 40 pages, I encountered a problem. The notepad won’t stay open for me to write on as the pages won’t fold back. I usually tear off pages to solve the problem, but this time I can’t as I need to frequently refer back to previous notes.
Then there is a second problem. Each time I need to write, I need to dig deep into my bag to look for a pen. I wanted a way to hold a pen together with a Rhodia notepad.
Yesterday, I found a solution. I bought this Midori clip on pen holder from Log On.
They come in two sizes and two colors, small and medium, in black or brown. I got the medium one, and it just fits my MUJI gel ink pen. The pen is a narrow one, about the thickness of a pencil. I wonder what pens could fit into the small sized one. (Update: For the small sized one, you insert the pen’s clip into the loop. I’ve read it from kobucha blog.)
The pen holder beautifully holds a pen besides the notepad, solving the pen problem. But then, there’s also the difficulty of keeping the notepad open.
By clipping the pen holder on the flipped open pages, it acts as a paperweight to keep the fold down. Now I can write comfortably.
If you look closely into the above picture, there is a yellow tag on the page. I use that as a bookmarking system to mark important notes. The tags are from MUJI and a set includes five colors. I have my own coloring scheme, indicating high priority stuff, to-dos, etc.
I keep the tags on the back of the notepads, so they are handy each time I need them.
A good solution to keep track of ideas should be simple, just as this one. It makes my work efficient and the planning process fun. I spend more time on paper, so when I sit at the computer I get my work done almost instantly.
November 4th, 2008 at 1:32 am
make the front page looks like this too~