I decided to redo my Moleskine pen holder hack this time with black duct tape – which I mentioned would probably look better. Sure enough, I was able to go from this:
To this:
Moleskine hacking
NOTICE
This “hack” has been improved/superseded by a [cosmetically] better one that can be found here. Otherwise, feel free to read on about the “concept” and methodology behind it.
One of the problems a notebook owner will face is the fact that they will not only have to lug notebook all around, all the time; but that they would need their writing materials handy as well.
Moleskine owners often tend to take their writing materials just as seriously as the notebook they write on – just like me. I only want(ed) to use a [mechanical] pencil with the notebook, and that I like to have a “pen-eraser” (for lack of a better term) for mistakes I make (because mechanical pencil built-in erasers, if present at all, suck).
There have been a lot of “hacks” done with Moleskines in the internet that address just that: trying to integrate your writing materials into your notebook to make it easier to transport. We have hacks such as the Moleskine pen-hack, pencil holder hack, quiver hack, duct-tape pen hack, among others – feel free to post a comment if you know of another hack, I’m trying to check all options to see what might be the most effective (and cheap) implementation.
And so in this post, I present my own pen-holder hack, sort of a tutorial (actually more of a commentary) on the reasoning behind the materials used, and construction “decisions.” Read More