Alexandra
This picture is not from the interview, but she looks awesome with skates.
Location; Central Park, Bandshell
Who is Alexandra? : Writer, Photographer, and Traveler.
She goes only by first name.
Paper ; Moleskine
Pen ; Gel pens
She has many many notebooks, and each of them are filled with words. A lot of words.
Digital Devices; None
Preference; She uses many notebooks, and each one has it's own purpose. Writing with gel pens that has fine tips.
1. Left two blue notebooks; Moleskine, Volant Notebook Large
2. Up Center memo pad; (maker unknown), Trust your Crazy Ideas
3. Down Center; (maker unknown), designer's notebook
4. 2nd from Right; Moleskine, Reporter Notebook
5. Right; Moleskine, Soft Cover
1. Moleskine, Volant Notebook Large / Diary / Dictionary
Both blue notebooks are Alexandra's daily personal writing. One has her own dictionary at the end, and the other one has extension function to the reporter notebook (4). She uses post it to expand pages.
2.Trust your Crazy Ideas / Starting point notebook
Perhaps this is the most important one for Alexandra. When she decided to return New York, she wrote everything what she needs in this little notebook. This is her starting point.
3. Designer's notebook / multi-functional to do list?
This notebook has multiple colors at the edge of the pages. Alexandra uses that point, she organizes the information and to do list by color. In the pages of red edge, she had a long list of books she has to read or movies she has to watch... under the green, she listed the title of articles she wants to write about, and her to do list. There are pages she wrote down all her blessing there. All her blessing were listed in that page with one sentence each with date of when it happened.
4. Moleskine, Reporter Ruled Notebook / Journal
When she interviews someone, she prepare questions on one page, and following page has answers and what she heard in the interview. Each interview is marked under the interviewee's name. Reporter notebook suit perfect for her active journalism writing for magazines.
5. Moleskine, Classic Soft Cover Plain Notebook / For everything
It's like her primary outer brain field. Whatever she finds interesting or funny. Actually, looks like she is not missing any small thing she finds. The topics are vary, but each pages are filled with her words under the tags of simple information that she put very top of the page; date, title of the book she read, etc... For this notebook, she does not have definite system of how she will use the notebook. It's written by many colors of pens, and the notebook is also used from the last page, upside down.
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I've been thinking about this notebook project for over a year, since I wanted to bring this out with clear purpose, took a while to initiate whole thing. Through talking with Alexandra at Bandshell, she encouraged me to launch. It's always great to know someone who has similar philosophy :)
Alexandra uses many Moleskine notebooks, both plain and ruled. She uses the plain notebook(5) very intuitive way. I heard it's better not to categorize the information you write down. It might look messy sometimes but that field will let the mind flows better to come up with a new creative idea.
Like me, she is definitely a Moleskine user, but her two important notebooks are the other kind. About the notebook (3), she waited for 9 months to get this.
