1. I used to find that my Moleskine pocket would tear because I carried so much junk in it. (Just the folded 8.5x11” Xmas list in there now bulks it out quite a bit.) I started reinforcing the pocket with a double layer of duct tape (one layer frays thin) and now I can stuff the pocket without worrying I’m going to lose anything. If you’re concerned about aesthetics, get some black duct tape so the reinforcement will be less visible.

2. I keep running notes for a number of projects in my Moleskine. At the start of the current entry, I put an arrow back to the page number for the last entry on this project (you DO number your Moleskine pages, right?), and then I flip back to that page and put an arrow forward to the current entry at the end. Afterwards, it looks sort of like this:

(81) Project Foo: Blah blah blah. ->85 …other pages, other projects… (85) Project Foo: 81<- Bleh bleh bleh.

1. It helps to have structural info like this in another colour, such as red or green. Bic makes a good four-colour pen you can get in any Office De(s)pot @ 3 for $5.00 or so. Having four colours to work with is very useful in general. For example, you can write lifehacks and other critical info in red so you can find them fast. Example: “Hit C-q before TAB in Emacs to prevent conversion of TAB to spaces.” That’s something you want to write in red! Later you can transfer it to your emacs.txt file.