Many thanks to everyone who wrote in with comments and questions about our new Habana notebooks…
By way of update, I’d like to announce that we will be importing the French Habana into the U.S. late this fall (rather than manufacturing it here with U.S.-made paper and French-made covers, as we’d initially planned). France, meanwhile, is going to start producing the Habana with 80gr ivory paper, instead of the 60gr they’re currently using. So there won’t be any difference between the notebooks you’d buy here in North America vs. the ones you’d find in Europe and the UK.
Please let us know if you have any further questions, of course!
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Dumb Little Man is a site dedicated to providing “a handful of tips that will save you money, increase your productivity, or just keep you sane.”
Tired of dealing with endless emails every day? Does emailing back and forth seem to be most of your job now? This article will help you cut it back.
Here are a few other tips:
- Call instead of email.Â
- Check your email early in the morning, at noon, just before you leave the office. Try not to check during the rest of the day - leave it for work, meetings, socializing in person.
- Be brief in your email.
- If you use a Quo Vadis Agenda Planning Diary, you can note your priority emails for the week in the dashboard box or in Daily Notes. Take care of them first.
In addition to more space for Sundays, a reader (and student) from New York City recently suggested that we add more time slots between 10-12 PM, when college students in particular are often still busy and scheduling plans. What do you think—could you use these extra hours? Let us know in the comments!
Are you going on vacation this summer? Will your kids be traveling solo, or going away to camp? If so, you might want to check out Forms4Parents.com, a website created by New York based lawyer (and mom) Linda Kagan that can help you organize your child’s and your summer travel. Here, Linda talks about what you’ll need to get ready:
Summer is here. Our children will begin to travel with grandparents, on their own or with a teen travel organization, and likely to other countries.
To make the experience better for our children (and those daring enough to travel with them), it’s best to make sure the proper travel and medical forms are in place. That way, you’ll know that you won’t be called on suddenly to sign a medical authorization, and that your children won’t be stopped at the border because a notarized authorization is not in hand.
The key is having comprehensive information about your children’s doctors, allergies, medicines, special needs, insurance, etc. on the forms that will accompany your children as they (or you) travel. In addition, it always helps to have the family rules clearly outlined for your children and their brave caregivers to minimize the endless negotiations about which tv shows, computer games, bedtimes, chores they can watch and must do. You should also provide contact information for each parent.
To make it easier, I created a website that allows parents to create necessary travel, medical and other types of authorizations, as well as a Family Rules form, online in a matter of minutes. It’s called Forms4Parents.com, and it’s dedicated to helping you organize your child’s and your summer travel.
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko is America’s first business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga. It’s billed as “the last career guide you’ll ever need.”
The book is written by Daniel Pink, the New York Times bestselling author of A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation. He lectures to corporations, associations and universities around the world on economic transformation and the changing world of work.
Johnny Bunko is stuck in a dead end job. He begins to suspect that what he thought he knew is just plain wrong. One night, he meets Diana, an unlikely career advisor. She reveals to him the six essential lessons for thriving in the world of work. Here they are:
In college, as they say, you learn the skills you need for the rest of your life… here are some great time management tips for students that were brought to our attention by a reader:
• Write things down. With so much going on it’s hard to remember every little thing you have to do — unless you write it down of course. Get a student planner or a notebook to take down all your important engagements, assignments and more.
• Stay organized. You’ll save yourself loads of time later by staying organized from the get-go. Instead of having to hunt around for notes, assignments and misplaced papers, keeping them all in one place makes studying and doing homework easier and less stressful.
• Focus on one thing at a time. Multitasking may seem like a good idea, but really you’ll get more done by focusing your energy on one task at a time. Once you’ve finished one thing you can check it off your list and move onto the next.
You can read the full list at this website… I dare say some of it’s useful to us non-students, too!
I was with Sam and Frank Fiorella of Pendemonium at the Chicago Pen Show in early May. We showcased some new Rhodia products with them. Sam and Frank are fun, wonderful people and experts on all things pen, paper and inks.
With them at the show was Letta Grosekemper, who specializes in custom nib grinding. Letta spent 54 years with Sheaffer Pen Company in their Pen Point Department as a production operator.
My Sheaffer pen nib was fine, but Letta worked on my Yard-O-Led so it writes to perfection!
This time, I’d like to share some work from NYC choreographer Sarah Johnson, who uses journals made by another QV sister company, Exacompta, to record her dances. You can check out a video of several past projects above; more recent videos and photographs of this athletic, fluid work is housed on Sarah’s website.
Do you know of any other cool or unusual artistic projects based on Quo Vadis, Clairefontaine, or Exacompta products? Please share them in the comments!
 
