Do you identify yourself as a dog person or a cat person?
Or are you neither?
Perhaps you’re just an animal lover in general?
Was there a specific event or a time in your life that influenced you to prefer one type of pet over another?
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Have you ever had your fortune told?
What was the experience like?
Where did it happen? What were your surroundings like? Was the decor and atmosphere appropriate to the situation?
Was the reading accurate?
Would you have it done again?
I know - this is a fairly obvious use for a Moleskine as they already come in a range of planners and diaries with different page configurations. It’s still a cool use for a Moleskine though!
I currently use a red pocket sized weekly planner and love the calendar page/notes page layout. My appointments go on the calendar side and my weekly to do items on the notes side. It’s a perfect size for my handbag, the red cover distinguishes it from my journal and it keeps my organised.
Did you know though that you can get the same effect, or an even more personally customised one, simply by altering a plain ruled or squared Moleskine notebook? There are some great examples out there from people who have done this, like Mike Rohdes’ post about creating a custom Moleskine planner, complete with a fully annotated photo on flickr.
I have created a Squidoo lens that brings together a heap of links to sites that feature journal writing prompts.
It’s called A Goldmine of Journal Writing Prompts.
I expect to be adding to it regularly as I stumble across more writing prompt sites.
Feel free to let me know in the comments below if you have a site with journal prompt or journal jar ideas!
For anyone who’s read anything about David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) revolution on the net, you’ll soon notice that a large number of GTD’ers proclaim the virtues of a Moleskine notebook. Amongst other uses within the GTD setup, a Moleskine notebook or cahier makes a great device for recording your to do list items.
There are many ways to structure your to do list within your Moleskine. The simplest is to just have one list and add all your items. As each item is done simply cross it off the list. GTD provides a more structured approach by splitting your list up into seperate context lists - you have a Next Action list, a Someday Maybe list and as many relevant context lists (for example @phone, @computer, @desk) as necessary.
To find out more about GTD and keeping a to do list in your Moleskine see these sites:
Another of Andrea’s lenses, this one’s on motivating kids who are reluctant readers. There’s some great tips here on encouraging your kids to get into reading.
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