I use the cheap Mead or similar. I've been doing that since my first
management job. I've only started keeping the filled ones for the last 5
years since I have been in business for myself. I've got the full nerd set
up. Left shirt pocket: Scale in the scale pocket, flashlight, screwdriver,
sharpie, pen, pencil. In that order. Same pocket behind the clippable stuff
is the notebook and a Besley drill/tap chart. Right shirt pocket: Business
cards, laser pointer.


"Gary H. Lucas" wrote in message
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Speaking of notebooks. I carry a 3 x 5 notebook made by J. Darling Corp.,
Tacoma, WA, 253-922-5000 called "Rite in the Rain" It has polyethylene
covers and special treated paper that is water proof. The covers
absolutely
do not tear off, and you can write on the paper while it is soaking wet.
They hold up extremely well riding around in my hip pocket all the time.
I
date each one when I start using it. I then date it again when it is
full.
I don't throw them away. In the front of each pad is my phone number
list.
Each time I start a new notebook I transfer the list, removing numbers I
no
longer need and alphabetizing the random numbers that accumulated from the
last list. This was very useful recently when I ran over my cell phone
with
my van while out on the road! I find that the process of updating note
books also refreshes my own memory and insures that I get things done that
I
have promised. I have them going back more than ten years now. My habit
is
to NEVER write anything down somewhere else until I've written it down in
my
notebook first. This way I never lose phone numbers or other important
data.

I consider a notebook a sign of a good manager. Managers that don't carry
and use a notebook are for the most part poor managers.

Gary H. Lucas

"Wayne Bengtsson" wrote in message
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"Jason D." wrote in message
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Just to make sense, making lists such as for example?

Well, a good one to start off with: every time you have to borrow a
tool,
you write it down in you notebook. After the next paycheck, when you go
tool
shopping, you have a better idea exactly _what_ tools you need to be
looking
at.


Other stuff to scribble down:
Measurements.

Compound calculations

Hours worked

Machine settings

I'm sure there's other things as well.