Quotes For Your Notebook: 2006 Moleskine Pocket Weekly Diary

The page layout for the 2006 Moleskine Pocket Weekly Diary has had me thinking since I first saw it back in August.  The format of short lined segments broken down into individual days, organized succinctly across a two-page spread containing a week at a time, has been begging for a creative use beyond the obvious schedule planner.  I don't keep a schedule, it's one of the joys of self-employment that I don't have many appointments to keep, no meetings to go to, and few reasons to mark a calendar beyond what my wall calendar can handle.  I really have no use for a Moleskine Weekly Planner in the traditional sense, but the format is so compelling I was determined to find a reason to keep one.

My first thought was that it would make a great short-form daily diary, with entries of just a few sentences each along the lines of "did this", "went here", "saw that".  The one problem with that idea is that there is very little of doing this, going there or seeing that in my day-to-day life, since I basically spend my day in front of my computer. 

Then the idea struck me: A diary of quotations.  So I have begun recording a quote per daily slot, with the goal of filling the whole diary by the end of the year with quotations I gather from my reading from 2006.  It will be a kind of perpetual quote-a-day diary that I can refer to over and over again, and will at the same time be a reflection of the reading I did in this year.  The space allotted per day calls for the kind of short and pithy quotes I tend to love. So far this has been a great project, and in addition to the individual quotation I am recording the book from which it originated, in case I want to re-visit it sometime in the future.

I will leave you with one of the first quotes I entered into my Quote Diary:

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein.

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Comments

[Kira]

*laughs* That's exactly what I'm doing with mine! I don't really have any appointments or anything -- just reminders to do things, or get this or that, so I decided to start writing down the quote of the day and the word of the day from my Google homepage. Usually, there are a few words and quotes per day, so I can always find one I like and jot it down. I love using obscure words as titles for the various things I write, so writing them down in the planner's perfect.

Grabbing quotes from books is a good idea, though. Lately, I've been reading the diary of Anais Nin, and there are so many good ones in there, I should write 'em down.

:)

[Ninth Wave Designs]

Kira - You should find loads of interesting quotes in Nin's diaries.

I use a Moleskine address book as a do-it-yourself diary, collecting interesting words I want to remember or ones I come across while reading that I don't know the meaning.

Have fun with your 2006 Quote Diary! - Ninth Wave