What do you actually do with a stack of pocket notebooks once you own more than you'll ever fill? Tom's been figuring that out for six months, and it turned into an actual system: a custom monthly and weekly planner, daily notes, and a pocket journal that's his new daily carry wallet. Jeff's carried notebooks for decades and joins in with his own habits, plus a magnetic pocket e-reader that's small enough to attach to the back of your iPhone.

In this episode:

  • Tom's Field Notes habit, $120 a year and three quarterly drops in: the 1943 set, Explore America, and the penny-themed one that didn't quite land
  • Trading phone pickups for a slower kind of capture, and why that's the actual point
  • The weekly planner Tom sketched himself, plus the accidental discovery that a scanned Field Notes fits a 13" iPad to scale
  • Lochby Pocket Journal: the wax-canvas cover doing double duty as Tom's new wallet
  • Jeff's leather notebook cover, reserved for exactly one thing: his bitters recipes
  • The eventual plan for filled notebooks: scan everything into Craft so it's searchable
  • The Xteink X3, Jeff's tiny magnetic e-reader that snaps onto the back of an iPhone

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