Notebook

A notebook is a book with blank pages, which is the collection of ideas, comments and notes of all kinds.

Description

Notebooks come in many varieties, as a ring binder, perfect bound, stapled, bound or loose-leaf form with clamping device, lined, squared or completely white, depending on the purpose and preferences. Two of the most well-known forms of the notebook are the Moleskine and the CIAK that are often associated with writers and artists, and subject to a certain object cult.

The notebook can be done in the form of a simple specification for a particular purpose. So special books are used in schools, which serve the note of the homework. The notebook differs from the diary so far as it receives factual notes usually where chronology and personal experience play a significant role. It differs from the Journal by the notes are not linked thematically.

Many people working creatively applies the notebook as an indispensable tool of intellectual work. From Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is reported that he always wore such a book on his belt. Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) is to the effect cited that losing his passport a triviality is against the catastrophic loss of his notebooks: "To lose a passport which the least of one's worries: to lose a notebook was a catastrophe. "

In the context of creative writing notebook is recommended to write down any time an inspiration to before so important to the writing process write pulse can be lost. Roger von Oech (the founder of Creative Think) tells in his book " The creative kick" of a case in which even in the shower a sheet of cling film was used with a grease pencils as an area for notes.