Organizer

Roaming the intertubes for affordable, feature rich organizer that would do the trick for my stay in Japan, I settled on the $12.99 Moleskine City Notebook Tokyo:

Moleskine Front

Moleskine Map Sample

It features maps with indexes, blank pages, lined pages for “database” entries, and.. well other stuff. It’s purpose is mainly for taking notes while traveling, as there are no calendar pages. Attached to the back of the cover is a little pocket designed to store little loose notes, I guess, which I might use as new house for my iPod Touch. All day-to-day organizational matters will be managed through my iTouch: calendar entries, to do lists, contacts, drinking games.

While the Moleskine is sort of stylish on its own, I wanted to try myself at customizing something for the first time in my life. I’ve seen many friends upgrade their belongings to make it more personal and was always jealous that they.. well.. could be bothered to do it. Seeing as I have lots of spare time over here in the USA, I made a little project out of it this weekend. It was quite easy actually: make a collage of photos, print out samples a couple of times to get the size on the paper right, print the actual thing, put plastic sticker over it for protection, fold paper to make the cover, adjust back cover to allow usage of rubber band.. DONE! (ignore “sleazy” face)

Ignore face..

Only thing left to do is decide what to use lined pages for and make my own labels. \o/

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  By John, 02.09.2009 @ 06:42

  Would you say its worth getting one? I’ve noticed there’s a Kyoto version too.

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  By casmo, 02.09.2009 @ 08:47

  I would say it’s great for tourists traveling the city and noting down impressions and special locations. How great it is for people actually living the city for a year I can’t tell yet If it had calendar pages I would say it’s definitely worth it, but as it is now it’ll be useful for quick notes and maps. Don’t know if you’re into note taking

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  By tom, 02.09.2009 @ 13:48

  i got a kyoto and tokyo one for £17 minus the sleazy face…. its good

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