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Posted by Beck
Mar 29, 2019 at 11:30 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
>Nowadays, if someone gives me a business card, I pocket it
>and throw it away later,
Probably wise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY
Posted by NickG
Mar 30, 2019 at 07:59 AM
I’ve been using a Traveler’s Notebook for a couple of years and it works well for me. It’s compact enough to have with me all the time, but the pages are big enough to be useful for serious note-taking (meetings, plans and the like).
There’s a massive choice of inserts - paper weight, number of pages, ruled, squared and so on (if you’re looking for a displacement activity, just go to Etsy and start looking at all the paper - I guarantee hours of wasted time). Apart from the aesthetics, this makes the TN ae to flex according to your own preferences.
That said, I don’t imagine I’m any more effective than when I used a Moleskine.
Posted by Graham Rhind
Mar 30, 2019 at 09:17 AM
Paul Korm wrote:
>You couldn’t go to a meeting or an office without everyone
>pulling out their Day Timers. The company is still around. As are
>Rolodexes. Nowadays, if someone gives me a business card, I pocket it
>and throw it away later, since it’s almost impossible to meet with
>someone and not already know their email and contact info.
I rather miss the days when everybody would pass business cards over the table at the start of meetings, mainly because I have very little ability to remember names, and I could use them surreptitiously to drop names in the right places during the meeting. But there are still lots of times I need to use a card because I don’t know the people there and they don’t know me - exhibitions, conferences, or even just to provide contact details when ordering in a shop. It’s probably nice and easy to just say your name when you have a nice short German name in Germany. For the past 35 years I’ve lived in countries when my short, but Scottish, name, seems to cause all sorts of problems for spelling or pronunciation - just passing them a card helps a lot.
What to do with the information later .... there’s the rub. I always thought Rolodexes were badly designed. I’ve never settled on a way of storing contact details, digitally or on paper. I just seem to muddle through.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Mar 30, 2019 at 10:26 AM
Ha! I’ve never seen that film, but that’s a great scene. I wonder how they coaxed Bruce Wayne to be in it.
Beck wrote:
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>Paul Korm wrote:
>>Nowadays, if someone gives me a business card, I pocket it
>>and throw it away later,
>
>Probably wise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY
>
Posted by Beck
Mar 30, 2019 at 03:39 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Ha! I’ve never seen that film, but that’s a great scene. I wonder how
>they coaxed Bruce Wayne to be in it.
At the time of that scene (2000), the most recent Bruce Wayne was George Clooney (1997).
It’s a creepy film with subtleties on rewatching. That said, I haven’t seen it in years and have doubts that it’s aged well.