Despite hundreds of keyboard and stylus accessories for your phone or tablet, a pen and paper is still the easiest way to take notes at work. And in their continued effort to bridge your gadgets and notebooks, Evernote and Moleskine are introducing a business-oriented notebook that gives you space for jotting private notes not meant for coworkers’ eyes.
Sketching, jotting, or doodling in a paper notebook is one of life’s simple joys, but more often than not we end up just tucking those notebooks away and never looking at them again. Mod Notebooks wants to change that, with a setup that digitizes your dead tree designs.
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If you’re an artist or designer with an iPad, chances are you have come across Paper
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It started life as a limited edition wooden contraption
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Sort of like the literal MS Paint renditions of popular songs
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There’s something I love about high-quality notebooks. They will keep your notes pristine for years, and can be easily referenced. Naturally, there are plenty of different good quality notebooks available from other manufacturers like Rhodia, but there’s just something perfect about tracking notes and events in a Star Wars Moleskine Planner.
The 2013-2014 Star Wars Moleskine Planners are for those people who don’t like to always refer to their smartphones for their agenda. There are a total of six different designs available, with two new ones for this year. All of them are available in 12- or 18-month versions with customizable covers.
They start out at $8.95(USD) for the smaller versions up to $24 for the largest over at the Moleskine store.
[via highsnobsociety via HiConsumption]
You might be familiar with “sweding,” the concept spawned by 2008 Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind that involves making low-budget remakes of your favorite movies with friends. That’s a little like what Honest&Smile are doing with the creation of so-called “analog apps,” which use physical contraptions to change or alter a smartphone’s functionality in a decidedly homegrown way. The group’s latest project is a partnership with Moleskine, to create a photo filter app built on a slightly modified version of one of that company’s much-loved notebooks.
The Abracadabrapp, as it’s called, combines elements that Honest&Smile developed in the creation of its first project, The Love Box. As with the The Love Box, the Abracadabrapp uses a small mirror and clever iPhone positioning to capture two sides of a conversation, or two different angles of a scene. Small transparent plastic filters provide image effects, and the whole thing can be broken down in seconds to fit within the Moleskine itself for easy transportation. An analog app isn’t exactly the easiest thing to describe, so check out the video above to see exactly what Abracadabrapp really is.
The Love Box sold out quickly, and this project is being offered on Rock The Post as a crowdfunded initiative. Honest&Smile is looking for just $2,800 to hand make a set of these. Pre-orders start at the $28 pledge level, and the funding period goes from now until January 3, 2013.
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