Tuesday, 15 July 2008

Confession

15072008752 I have a confession to make.

You know me, I like my techie gadgets (I can't always afford them, but I do drool over them and covet them and dream about them). A lot. I'm inseparable from my iPod Touch, own a N95 and if you take my Powerbook away from me, I get serious withdrawl. Yet, and here's the confession... I have a paper diary/organiser/agenda. A good old fashioned Collins, £4.95, one-week-on-two-pages diary. Nothing fancy, although I am picky. Has to be A6 format, and one week on two pages. And preferably an elastic band that closes it, so that I can stick stuff in. Reading this blogpost though  and getting a meeting request from a friend who wanted to go to dinner and wanted to know which email address he needed to send the invitation to, made me realise that I'm maybe part of a dying breed of people that still have a paper organiser.

I like my paper diary. I like it because I can pencil in appointments. I have an overview of the week. Nothing quite as comforting as flipping backwards and forwards through the weeks and months. I can stick Post-it notes in it and pencil quotes into random pages. I keep my old diaries as keepsakes, it's great flicking through and being reminded of all the fun things I did. The only downside perhaps is lack up backup possibilities (short of photocopying it I suppose). If I lose it, I'm stuffed.

So there you go. I guess you can take the girl out of book history, but you can't take the love of paper away from the girl!

15 Jul 2008 19:46:00 | Ranting and raving

3 Comments

Hey Miss N,

Have you managed to pencil in a date for curry yet? :)

Posted by: poweryogi | Tuesday, 15 July 2008 at 09:12 PM

Good to see you're still blogging.

Guess I'll have to read all unread posts of yours now... since Aug 07 :o

you're certainly VERY picky about these things, you surely surprised me that you still use papar-pencil diary.

BTW you're not alone there..

Posted by: Johny CAGE | Monday, 21 July 2008 at 10:08 AM

Guess this is similar to ... reading the print version of a novel versus reading the same as an e-book :-) I prefer the former although advantages like search/highlighting are available in the the electronic version!

Posted by: Sangfroid | Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 03:33 PM

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