March 12 – Jack Kerouac, author, painter, poet, traveler (b. 1922) Girl Guides (later, the Girl Scouts) Formed (1912) – One of the “Real Big Days” listed on the Field Notes Calendar
For each Field Note book I simply scanned (…) each double spread (…) Then I made a new notebook in Evernote and dropped them in.
Here’s the killer thing though. Evernote indexes handwritten notes and makes the text searchable. It’s not perfect but it now means that my Field Notes archive is now searchable. It also means that they’re always with me; on my iPhone, the web or on my desktop.
Evernote made their own custom-branded FIELD NOTES way back in October 2008, we’ve always known that Evernotes and FIELD NOTES were a match made in heaven.
Here’s an incredible specimen I dug up in recent travels around the nation. All the way from Rutland, Vermont.
I have a good buddy who grew up in Rutland by the name of Pat Bridges. He’s the longtime Editor of Snowboarder magazine, and he’s come a long, long way since his surly days on the mean streets of Rutland. Hell of a writer. Funny as hell. Wittier than you. Every time I think about Pat and his Rutland upbringing, I think about his story about his youthful, near-death experience with “Rocky Mountains Spotted Fever.” But that’s a whole ‘nother story.
Pat Bridges. Rutland. Old memo books. Good stuff on a Friday, people.
I got a nice email from one Sarah Smarsch just as summer was coming to a close. She and her husband-to-be were going to be using Field Notes for their wedding vows! Here’s what she had to say,
“You see, because of the style and class that Field Notes brand possesses, we chose to use the little books to write our wedding vows in. Ideas became drafts and drafts became our spoken promises to one another.”
Now if that doesn’t stick to yer ribs, I don’t know what will.
We can’t tell you how proud this makes us feel, seeing our little memo books get the job done in one of the biggest moments in a couple of lovebird’s lives. Hell, I’m crying big ol’ crocodile tears as there words go to print.
We wish you kids nothing but the best, with long, long lives and 14 beautiful, bouncing babies; who all learn how to write on the pages of Field Notes memo books.
Oh man, we’ve been busy lately, getting FIELD NOTES “Just Below Zero” and 2010 Calendars out to the People. In the rush, we’ve fallen way behind on thanking all our great customers and friends that make us what we are:
3-packs of our Just Below Zero winter colors edition are sold out. Thanks everyone. You can still get them as part of a COLORS subscription or you may be able to find them, and maybe even some previous seasonal editions, at one of our awesome retailers. By the way, you can’t buy these but if you buy anything you’ll probably get one.
We’ve been following along over at We Love You So for awhile now. It’s the blog for the amazing Where The Wild Things Are movie. They post things about Maurice Sendak and the movie, stuff about Spike Jonze and filmmaking and feature other items of interest as well. We are so pleased that we are an item of interest, they choose to feature Field Notes on the blog! Thanks to Molly and the great folks over at We Love You So for the nice words. The feeling is mutual.
Nothing sells a pocket notebook like a celebrity endorsement, and we’ve garnered a few astounding and unsolicited real endorsements from celebrities (see “reviews,” left). But Nerd Boyfriend does this great thing where they find an old celebrity photo and then link a few modern items of clothing and/or accessories that emulate the old celebrity photo. Their clever schemeimplies that Tom Wolfe loves our notebooks, without his actual involvement, and without fear that the white-suited author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities will be waiting on our doorstep with a baseball bat or court summons. Brill!
Is that a great photo or what? Saturn-V launch, a quality notebook, and The Right Stuff.
The guys at Alamofire unpacking a shipment from Field Notes HQ. If your company, Explorers’ Club or street gang needs a custom run of memo books, just give Michele a shout and she’ll hook you up, after all, “Michele’s your lady at Field Notes Brand.” Use the contact link above.
Violinist Michi Regier travels the world following all sorts of violin-related pursuits: studying folklore, ethnic music, Americana, classical music, and performing at orchestra halls, renaissance festivals, and on the street. When her composition software just wasn’t cutting it in 7/8 time, she turned to FIELD NOTES.
This commentator’s musical tastes generally reside squarely in 4/4 time but I like to shake it up with some math rock. 7/8 is pretty rare in the pop music world, unless you play Pink Floyd’s Money, at 66.6 RPM (please don’t). It looks like Michi’s got a pretty wide variety of music available, maybe I could start with the fiddlin’ and ease into the heavier stuff.
We talk big here at FIELD NOTES HQ, pretending we’re adventurers transcribing secret Enigma code, and not just doughy nerds writing down our sub sandwich orders. We know our product is tougher than we are, we’ve just been waiting for someone to prove it. Well, friends, NOTES don’t get any more “FIELD” than this:
In January, John Pull led an group of construction workers on a field project among native Mayans in Guatemala’s Ixil Triangle. He’s the gringo between the two guys with Israeli assault rifles. And I don’t think that kid got his Che t-shirt at Hot Topic.
But John wasn’t down there inciting revolution, he was working with Helps International, and his team saw more than 1000 patients. They also installed stoves and water filtration systems in 50 homes and one school. John handed out our memo books to the team leaders, so we’re very happy to see FIELD NOTES playing a part in this brave and successful mission. Thanks for the photos, John, and keep up the GOOD WORK.
In January, John Pull led an group of construction workers on a field project among native Mayans in Guatemala’s 
