{"id":1673,"date":"2013-11-20T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T02:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2013-11-20T19:59:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T01:59:35","slug":"follow-up-on-the-arc-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/follow-up-on-the-arc-notebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Follow-up on the Arc Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to believe it was only January that I reviewed the Arc Notebook from Staples<\/a> initially and two things have happened that inspired me to follow-up on this \u2013 to share more about how it\u2019s holding up with even more time and usage.<\/p>\n

I continue to greatly appreciate this notebook \u2013 it really is my go-to place when I need to write things down.\u00a0 This includes my to-do list for the week (or occasionally, day), notes about any blog ideas, things that inspire me, and other things that it\u2019s easier to hand-write (rather than using the iPad).<\/p>\n

First, I need to share that there is something I forgot to talk about in my review – another positive aspect of this style notebook (both sizes) is that the rings allows for the notebook to be flipped over like a standard notebook.\u00a0 This means that if you have limited space for the notebook to be sitting out, you aren\u2019t limited to it lying there closed until you need to use it.\u00a0 The poly style will lie flatter since the leather has some bulk and causes it to lie at a slight angle.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been interesting though, the amount of paper that comfortable fit in the notebook seems so little.\u00a0 My perception (and some of the people I work with also) is first that it\u2019s easy to put too much paper in \u2013 I think the rings are deceptive in that it seems like more paper would fit easily.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also become curious about if we\u2019re simply more comfortable with having lots of pages available to us \u2013 so when we see how much we need to cut back on the pages, we feel ill at ease.\u00a0 I know I do \u2013 \u201cuh-oh I only have 8 blank pages\u201d \u2013 yet I have yet to use all those pages in a sitting.\u00a0 And there is still a bit of discomfort about how few blank pages there are \u2013 hence my curiosity about how we view the access to blank pages in our notebooks.<\/p>\n

And it finally happened \u2013 there is a page that is coming loose and does not want to sit back around the rings.\u00a0 I shared in my initial post how it seems like the pages would not be easily moved around time after time \u2013 that there should be a limit before the punched paper will just stop working.\u00a0 Although I initially had some pages where the punched paper was certainly flexible from moving it around, it still connected solidly with the rings.<\/p>\n

The only page that has caught my attention with this issue is the first page I left in the notebook \u2013 I left in the cover page \u2013 and the bottom punch doesn\u2019t want to stay.\u00a0 Even though the cover page is beginning to not connect with the rings \u2013 it\u2019s still only 1 of the punches.\u00a0 The page has 7 other punches helping to keep it attached \u2013 so even when the paper is getting tired, it happens slowly and there is support so that the page is still part of the notebook.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been appreciating the Arc Notebook so much that it took me a while to start using the similar notebook from Ampad (blog about that coming fairly soon!) and my intuition tells me that I will still prefer the Arc Notebook.\u00a0 As I see people making notes for themselves \u2013 either on random pieces of paper or just filling a spiral notebook with notes \u2013 I think about the Arc Notebook and how easy it is to keep like notes together \u2013 at least as long as you don\u2019t fill a single page with notes that relate to different aspects of your life.\u00a0 It\u2019s probably obvious that I consider this product a great option for a variety of needs that require our writing it down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revisiting the Arc Notebook \u2013 to add another strength I forgot to talk about in the initial review and to see how it\u2019s held up \u2013 since I continue to use it regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[10,8,18,5,9,20,22,15,4,16],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-behavior","tag-discipline","tag-goals","tag-household","tag-motivation","tag-paperwork","tag-productivity","tag-resources","tag-routines","tag-to-do-lists"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7p82c-qZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jenniferlinnig.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}