
This way, you can access each of these sections quickly and easily. Next Actions aka Action List (page 100).I labelled these and placed them on the following page numbers: Next, take six of the multi-coloured labels. These numbers will allow you to cross-reference notes and divide your book into sections. There's no need to number pages on the left. Now, number every page on the bottom right-hand side corner of your Moleskine notebook. We bring this commitment to our notebooks, bags, apps & smart pens & notebooks.īuy on Amazon Step 2. MOLESKINE QUALITY: We're dedicated to culture, travel, memory, imagination, & personal identity-both physical & digital.DELUXE QUALITY PAGES: Moleskine's thick, ivory paper pages in a hardcover Moleskine notebook, softcover Moleskine notebook, cahier or volant journal, or Moleskine planner are perfectly textured for writing with a ballpoint pen, fountain pen, or pencil.The binding and cover have a durable finish, designed for daily journaling, writing and sketching. GIFT QUALITY NOTEBOOKS: Moleskine planners, journals and notebooks come in hardcover or softcover and colors like black, red, blue, green and brown.Leather-like classic Moleskine cover & thick, ivory paper pages are perfect for writing with fountain pens. DURABLE COVER & ELASTIC CLOSURE: Hold writing projects & notes in your Moleskine notebook with an elastic closure band & inner storage folders.Moleskine notebooks are beloved by travelers & bullet journalists for their slim design. CLASSIC MOLESKINE NOTEBOOK: Moleskine classic notebooks are perfect notebooks for writing journals, a daily diary, or note taking in college classes or meetings.‘I want the Moleskine to be like an iPhone,’ Riccardi concludes, ‘something that you wouldn’t leave home without. The digital functionality is a welcome bonus that could prove essential – imagine being able to run a text search on an old notebook – but the object itself will always endure. Version 2.0 is a step on the road to an increasingly seamless system, one that committed jotters and scribblers would be very happy to use on a daily basis. I personally have terrible handwriting, but it’s part of my personality I just have a need to write things down.’ ‘Whatever the human brain is capable of doing, we can reproduce it,’ Riccardi says, ‘but we have to connect Moleskine to other apps and systems and make it easy and accessible for everyone. The future is one of greater connectivity and openness. The latter makes recycling a bit trickier, she admits, adding that ‘nobody recycles their Moleskines! We have customers who build custom libraries just to keep their notebooks.’ ‘For us, Smart is the future of the brand and 2.0 is just the start.’ Noting that traditional objects such as fountain pens are undergoing a revival, Riccardi emphasises how important it is to achieve the right texture and quality for Moleskine’s encoded paper. ‘Maria said to me that a Moleskine was always meant to be the start of the creative process,’ Riccardi says. Whatever happens, Riccardi remains committed to the physical object. If all that thinking was done directly to digital, we would lose a significant part of our process.’ It’s something that is important to preserve. ‘Sketching captures the most powerful part of the human brain,’ she enthuses, the spirit of human creativity. For Riccardi, it is a luxury Italian brand with a bright future, even – perhaps especially – in our digital age. The Moleskine name was coined and a mythology evoked, effectively transforming the humble blank notebook into a fetish object by ramping up quality and tactility and emphasising the creativity and inspiration that would surely flow during its use. The brand was founded in Italy in 1997 by Francesco Franceschi and Maria Sebregondi, following Sebregondi’s introduction of a high-quality compact journal for Franceschi’s firm Modo & Modo. Chatwin romanticised the handmade generic black notebooks he used to buy in Paris, coining the term ‘moleskine’ to describe them, probably in reference to heavy, felt-style moleskin cotton. ‘I had a positive image of the brand and its legendary notebook – a book that is yet to be written.’ Moleskine often gives the impression of being a much older company, perhaps due in part to its long-standing association with the author Bruce Chatwin, who died in 1989. ‘When I was approached by Moleskine it changed my plans,’ Riccardi admits.
