In my capacity as Deputy Editor of the publication you’re currently reading, I attend an inordinate amount of meetings during which it’s important that I take notes. I could easily do this on my laptop, of course, but I would prefer to write things down in a notebook. I don’t know why, exactly. It seems more dignified, somehow. A little less rude — maybe because when I’m typing, there’s no real way for the people I’m meeting with to know whether I’m taking legit notes or just gchatting with my wife.
I’ve gone through many notebooks over the years, almost all of them abandoned long before being filled. Freebies I’ve gotten from various brands and press events, much nicer options from Field Notes and Moleskine — you name it, and I’ve likely stuffed it into a drawer with but a few pages of illegible, incomplete notes haphazardly taken, never to be read again.
Why is this the case? Well, because I find them all incredibly unpleasant to write in. You see, I’m left-handed. And while I recognize that this may not seem like a big deal, it absolutely is. Let me explain.
With any of the thicker, more substantially bound notebooks on the market — the Moleskine being the perfect example — the spines are so stiff that they don’t stay open. For a right-handed person, this presents less of a problem, as they can fairly easily use their left hand to hold the notebook open while writing freely with their right. For me, this is not the case: the cover of the notebook and whatever pages I’ve already used fall to the right and essentially lean on my left hand as I write. It’s insanely uncomfortable, and, worse, makes it extremely difficult to get to the left-most portions of the page I’m trying to write on. Think I’m being dramatic? I probably am, but still.
So after setting out on a mission to address this crime against me and my left-handed brethren, I came across a product by the company Moo. They make business cards and stationery, and all sorts of paper products — including a notebook that has improved my life greatly.
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