While I am nowhere near having 85 notebooks I do have a certain fascination with note-taking and have sketchbooks and so I can relate to what Michael is saying here:
"There always seems to be a lot of interest in designers' sketchbooks, but I call these notebooks for a reason. I've seen other designer's sketchbooks and I'm always impressed by how much creativity is on display. Not in mine. Page after page contain nothing but records of phone conversations, notes from meetings, price estimates, specifications. I keep the random doodles to a minimum. Someone looking at those pages would think the book might belong to a lawyer or, more likely, a party planner. Every once in a while, though, there are some drawings that would suggest that the owner was a designer.
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When I look at these notebooks, many of the references bring back memories, some decades old. But other times I frankly can't remember why I was writing these things down. Did I ever call Dilland? Whatever happened to Executive Sign? What was the Lefand Alliance? In many ways, the act of notetaking and sketching is an end in itself for me. Many of these pages, filled with trivia as they are, are destined never to be looked at a second time. "
The bit about note-taking as in end in itself is exactly how I feel about it and in the end they do feel like more honest ways of writing a diary without all the "I feel like this" stuff. I do however disagree with the moleskin comment as I have no intention of ever using a different notebook! Make sure you read the whole thing, it's awesomely geeky.
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