The trusty notebook of the future?

Anyone who knows me knows two things.  I like notebooks, and have many.  And as a gamer, I tend to drift onto the Kickstarter website from time to time looking to see what developments are in the works.  (Incidentally, you can pop over to my other site to see updates about my hobby and Kickstarters I have started following HERE )

It was on one of my trips to Kickstarter that I found the Everlast Rocketbook campaign

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click on the image to view the campaign

Being an avid note taker for various things, you will see from the image above that I have half a shelf devoted to the things.  Then I found this campaign.

What we have is the idea of a reusable notebook.  You write your notes on the pages using one of their pens, and how you mark the page dictates where the contents are sent in your personal cloud, allowing you scribble your notes and then save them where you need them.  You can then wipe the page and use afresh.

Some folks might balk at the price, it isn’t cheap.  On the other hand, if it works it could save money in the long run.  Personally, I prefer taking notes in a notebook rather than on computer.  It feels much more natural, and it is faster.

I leave it to you to decide.  Campaign can be found HERE

I already ordered mine

More to proofreading than just a sharp eye…

So, as mentioned, I joined the society for editors and proofreaders in order to do a better job at proofreading things for clients.  As such I signed up for the first course a little while ago, and have been gradually working my way through it, honing my skills as it were.  All of which will no doubt come in handy when I have my own novel to edit.  Until then, I work for you.

Little did I realise, that there was a lot more to proofreading than just care and attention.  There are a whole mess of symbols used by professionals to mark documents, BSI standard.

It was actually quite therapeutic.  However, the practice text is also guilt tripping me into going for a walk.

I guess there are worse things it could be persuading me to do…