» Pocket, Purse or Portfolio?
Our blogger friend and regular Rhodia snapper Margaret Mendel is hanging out in France for 15 days eating real French bread with butter and jam – (Just please tell me that’s not a mini jar of Smuckers!) She mentioned how the Bloc Rhodia N° 11 fits perfectly in her back pocket and it prompted me to wonder…. with the plethora of sizes and shapes of available Rhodia products, which size goes with you everywhere, and how do you carry it? I only carry a bag on rare occasions and even then I’m not very organized. My tablets and journals tend to migrate towards the bottom of the bag and always elicits a “Wait a sec, I’ve got some paper right here!” which is often followed by my dumping the contents of my bag onto the floor. Bag is typically some sort of mini-backpack, or my gently used (for $20) Timbuk 2 Metro bag in orange and teal.
My real problem is picking only one or two tablets for the road….
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I carry a couple of the really small Rhodia pads with me – numbers 11 & 12, both gridded and marked 5×5. You might want to look at one of the Ameribag Healthy Back Bags. A bunch of compartments and I always know where my Rhodias are and reach for them whenever needed. Great bags!
These days I’m taking my webbie everywhere, in my usual bag, a green Timbuk2 mini metro. Here’s a short with my cameraphone:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/limesally/4666584993/?editreplace=1
I carry my journal & favorite quotes notebook in my Tom Bihn Brain Bag, tucked in front of my TB Vertical Freudian Slip. Both journals are Quo Vadis, the journal is the blank version, yellow-green, the quote book is green, lined. Love ‘em!
Hi there.
I’m a big fan of the #11 because of its emminent portability. I can just drop one in my trouser pocket and go. The problem is they tend to fall apart as the top binding gets rubbed away by the other ephemera.
Has Rhodia/Clairefontaine ever considered manufacturing a protective cover, similar to the e-pure cover for the pocket size Blocs? It needn’t be expensive; it could be made of plastic / perpsex. I think that there could be a market there for those of us without bags or purses. Just a thought.
Cheers.
My Rhodia No 13 goes everywhere with me. I feel safe in the thought that it’s in my bag even when I always don’t use it.
TubbyMike, I don’t know if it’s exactly what you had in mind, but I have a cover for my #11 and a couple of other sizes as well.
Looks like this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/limesally/2237167640/in/pool-rhodiadrive
While I love my Reverse, I have recently become enamored of the smaller LeCarre for precisely the portability factor…It fits in all my bag options, not just the backpack.
In the backpack, I tuck whatever notebook I am taking into the empty laptop sleeve–keeps it flat and out of harm’s way. In most other bags, the notebook gets sandwiched between the omnipresent book and the side of the bag.
I am never without the side staple-bound Pocket Notebook (3″ high x 4.75″ wide. It’s available in packets of 3, ruled or graph, and it’s about $7 for a 3-pack. And the cover wears beautifully.
I carry a no.12 Pad Holder (with grid pad) with me everywhere, either in my pants, inside jacket, or shirt pocket. I find it helps to keep my thoughts organized – at the end of the day, I just check to see if I’ve missed anything; or I can just make a mental note to check my notebook when something comes up! The grid design also makes it easy to make pro|con or other lists. Very useful, and the leather design is wonderful.
The one thing that Rhodia doesn’t make, much to my chagrin, is no.11 or no.12 french ruled pads. Even if it didn’t have the margin divider, that would be fine.
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