Editing The Pen Addict 334/transcript (section)

== Notebook Introduction ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' The pen puns and the stationary puns. You know, they're there for the taken. Write Notepad's meeting notebook, Myke. I have this sitting right here at my desk. It is a... I was going to say work of art. It's not a work of art. It is a technical wonder. I don't know. The way these notebooks feel and look in my hand is like, I can conquer the world with this thing. Like, the way Chris builds his products. They're like rock solid, purposefully made, high quality. Like, it feels like quality, you know, sitting here on the desk. I have the pistachio colored cover one. There's a black covered color one, which I sent to Jeff Abbott to review for the blog. And I am just... I love this style for... The way you put it, single purpose notebooks, right? So, what did you mean by that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Should we explain what it is? So, it is a notebook in an interesting 7x10 format, which is quite a tall format, which has purposely printed pages that are made for meetings. So, it is a meeting notebook. So, it has like... I can't really very clearly see the columns on the website. So, can you explain what the columns say?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Sure, sure. So, the top left is composer and date. So, I'm assuming that's you and the date. Top right is just kind of like a title space and page numbers, if you want. The left column is actions and the right column is notes. And the right column is lined and numbered.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh, if they're listening, I would like to give some feedback to the right notepad folks to make an image that you can clearly see this on their website. Right? Because they don't... The image isn't clear. Like, I know if I wanted to buy this notebook or if I was in the market for this notebook, I would want to be able to see what you've just told me. Because it is not possible to see the headings. So...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, see all of it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Makes sense. I would want to see it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, when I had my jobby job, this is the type of notebook that I wanted and I could never find it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, well, because you would just find a way to do it yourself, right? Like, in your own kind of like, I'm just going to write this part over here and this part over here and I'm going to highlight this thing in such a way. But it was always, you know, it's always kind of like messed up, mashed up on one page. Right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, I used the Doan Idea Journal for that. You know, it's a big, bulky, heavy-duty notebook and I would separate it out how I needed to. At the time, these things existed, but I didn't... These types of things existed. Like, Levenger has like a meeting pad and Rhodia has a meeting notebook. But I didn't know of these things at the time until, you know, years on when I didn't really have a use for them. Like, I would have killed for this type of notebook at work. It's exactly the way I set up my work notes during the day. So, I don't know what I will personally use it for sitting at my desk here. But I want to figure out what it will be because I want to use it. It's really nice.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I mean, for the exact purpose that this thing is meant for, me and you don't really need so much anymore, I guess. Right? Right. There are many, many, many, many, many, many, many people around the world that would need something like this. But it's just because we don't really take traditional meetings anymore. You know, I have like phone calls and stuff like that. But this is really a more like we're all going to sit around a table for an hour or an hour and a half and we're going to get into it. Right? Like, that's what this kind of notebook is for. I mean, even just like if you are a note taker for meetings, like this is frigging perfect. Let alone the fact of like just the, you know, an average person doing it. But like if your job is to sit in meetings and take notes for people, like this is like a godsend. Oh, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I would have used the entire page, like at least a page a day in my old job. Like being on like a nine hour shift, you know, tasks and things that would come up and, you know, I could, you know, notate it properly. I don't know. It would have been perfect. So, it's great. Next one, Myke. I'm really curious to what you think. And it's probably not fair because you don't have it in your hand and I do. The dome paper box car. So, Chad introduced two new products. Well, three, but two new styles. So, we have the dome paper box car, which we're going to talk about first. And then we have the dot plot, which comes in the idea journal sizes, you know, the large and the small. So, what were your thoughts when you saw images of the box car utility notebook?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't really have much of a feel for it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. That's kind of what I thought you would say, not having it in hand. Like, not like I thought it would be, I don't get it. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't dislike it. Like, I don't look at it and be like, oh, no. But like, I don't look at it. Right. And I'm like, oh, I've got to have it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So, I don't, this is another thing. I don't know what I would use this for. So, it has these railroad type lines and dashes is the page mark or the page markings. It'd be really good for like learning languages and writing and drawing and sketching, things like that. As far as a note notebook, I don't know how I would use it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's so close to being a full grid. I don't know what its purpose is. Right. So, basically the lines go across the pages horizontally and vertically, it's like a dot, like a dash pattern. A dash. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But the dash is. The railroad track ish.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And that's kind of like Boxcar. I said, you know, like it's a railroad track. It's a clever, you know, it's a clever branding thing around what is essentially a donor come up with two new paper layouts. Right. This is one of them. I just don't fully understand it. I, you know, like Inc. Dependence in the chat room is saying maybe it's less distracting than a full grid. I don't see how that's the case personally.