User:FLEM/noteboox

Page where to leave all thoughts and ideas for the possible toolbox

maybe it's not gonna be a toolbox but it will be something

it's 19-04-23 and i am moving here to document the work towards graduation

general overview of the concept

Therefore, the final outcome will be a toolkit that will present, in different shapes, how to go through the analysis of self and the creation of personalised paper notebooks.

The Toolkit will be a box, probably, and will include a series of objects and materials:

- the thesis, printed on different papers, different sizes, every chapter, or paragraph will be different.

This version of the thesis will include a selection of photographs of the materials obtained in the last months, my notebooks, other people's notebooks, the CES, the experiments, the notes...

- different type of papers will be included, a cardboard to hold everything together, and other materials to help in the playground (metal rings, threads etc..)

- a "10 steps to make your own notebook", an instructional piece to go through different experiments.

it will include simple and accessible adds-on that users can use to start implementing their already-existing notebooks (like pockets, folding, additional papers..)

- a set of cards with questions to trigger the imagination

- a selection of short fictional stories based on the notebooks participants made during the sessions and influenced by the stories they told me.

These materials can be tried before the publications by participants or individuals that took part into my research.

ideas dump

to be elaborated

• "5 things to know about notebooks making"
• 10 steps to make your own notebook
• manifesto
• a "making a book" with the materials inside the "box"
• exercise/scheme of analysis of "personal notebook process"
• write a LEXICON as a way to explain things easily (what is your role into this practice?)

ideas development

exercise/scheme of analysis of "personal notebook process"

I need a series of questions that can describe it all in a few words.

my personal notebook process	the ever-changing process a person can go through, by analysing and keeping attention to their individual note-taking activity and their use of paper notebooks to understand themselves and their needs.
What is the starting need that brought to the creation and use of it?	this question helps to highlight the starting point and main reason for the creation of a new notebook (or modification applied). it can be described in a few words.
What are the positive sides? Does it work within the starting purpose?	this is to understand if the solutions that have been found and applied to the new notebook are valid and working. this is important mostly not to lose track of the reasons underneath the concept and to evaluate how much the modifications worked.
What are the negative sides? What could be a different approach to solve the issue?	if what has been analysed above did not work, why didn't it work? analysing what worked and what did not help to reason on new ways to solve the issue that was not solved.
To try out:	a space to throw some ideas about practical solutions to apply to a possible new notebook or that can be applied directly to the version that is under monitoring.

a second table for new ideas:

new ideas for notebooks
Need	being able to move the pages so that every space is a free space
Concept	write on separate sheets and then put them together with strings or rings
Pros	Different paper sheets so I can write separately and then decide how to organise the notes
Cons	It is annoying that I cannot add things to the text if the space is finished (absence of folded columns)

Lexicon of practice

notebook

common book

The key word for the commonplace book is “annotated.” It is not just an anthology; the compiler reacts to the passages he has chosen or tells what the passages have led him to think about. A piece of prose, a poem, an aphorism can trigger the mind to consider a parallel, to dredge something from the memory, or perhaps to speculate with further range and depth on the same theme.

ephimera

scrapbook

scatchbook

diary

index cards

marginalia

book

user

maker

consumer

researcher

participant

accessible

notebook making

notes

05.04.23

Tutorial with Clara

With the main question we discussed about, when something is printed, does it stop to be a notebook? Can something printed still be a notebook?

We discussed about the limits of the pages, how basic paper books do not allow annotation because of the little space in the margins.

We also tried to define what is a notebook for us. I said that for me it is something that accompanying you in certain situations and offer a support. Clara said they are periodicals. They are positioned in a specific location, and during a certain period of time, where and when the user goes back recurrently.

What we discussed is also how many times, the uncomfortable of notebooks can come from certain anxieties we have in life and how we can transform those anxieties into notebooks features (e.g. how can I make a notebook public without thinking that what I write is stupid? can I use this anxiety to find a practical solution or feature that would help me?)

Task: we decided that I will start to scan all my notebooks.

Suggestions: "the godfather notebooks" by Coppola

what is a notebook for you?

17.04.23

tutorial with Manetta

Roll of my wiki page (User:FLEM/Notebook)

1. what does it do/allow to do? what does it do differently?
2. what does it not do/doesn't allow to do?
3. how does it relate with the bigger project?

Work on the web page: how do i want to talk with others? as an invitation to my world. "here's a different approach to the act of making notebooks"

i printed and answered to everything in my notebook on 19-04-23

18.04.23

wait, what is experimental publishing again? by Aymeric M.

How to make notebook making more accessible? (interest, time/energy, materials, ability wise)

How things are being produced

I would like to create (active) makers, not consumers. The final outcome needs to be something to use to make, not only to receive/consume. I want that my public (define my public=) to participate in the act of making notebooks against capitalism and commodity practices. I want to expand the spaces of this medium.

How we participate/our identity is shaped in consumerism/commodity practice.

Intentions, purpose, ideologies, politics: where do I position them?

let's think about how we make things: if i want to address something, the way I do it is as much as important as the content that I use. If i am talking against capitalism I cannot buy new paper to make notebooks. Challenge the tools of production, the medium, the space in which it's been produced, how and where the work will circulate.

how and where will this project circulate?

does my project experiment with the medium while carrying information? i think so

19.04.23

tonight i could not sleep but produced ideas to work on

notes on questions/activity cards and web page idea

Card game for notebooks

Describe a situation, a need, a type of binding etc (take from the leaflet i made for last CES-see image) and mix and match to make little prototypes (e.g. how to make a notebook that is transportable but with a big space for writing with no binding?/concertina/rubberband)

these are just examples, the possibilities are infinite

Then to try out in CES after notebook discussion/analysis

How to make notebook making accessible? What does it mean accessible? Write in the lexicon

--> clara told me: why cards? are cards a notebook? rethink in as a notebook instead of a card game: what about the three rows notebook? Is it doable in bigger scale? can i make a series? see notebook idea User:FLEM/Notebook#30.09.22 & pic below

the options are printed on the different rows and attached with rings, and they can be turned around to mix and match the options like a random choice game -- > maybe write it more like a possible situation story: "I go in different locations to take notes so I need a notebook that is transportable (A); it does not have a binding (B); it needs a lot of space (C) for writing and sketching; it can have an additional feature if I find leaflets or information sheets around that I need to save (D) in this notebook" (all written in the different parts of the notebook, I need to be careful that everything can match in some way, but if it does not it could be interesting?)

i am making a prototype and using 4 rows: situation/need (A); binding (B); paper/space type/shape(C); add-ons (D). + one cardboard to hold everything.

a three rows notebook prototype

Interactive website

• it starts like notebook kit (see User:FLEM/Notebook#20.09.22) with one rectangle in the middle and then the user can add pages of the same size in all directions (eg: having a website that only goes in one direction - if a user decides to)
• you can move around only with the hand and not scrolling (is it called Drag to scroll? see https://htmldom.dev/drag-to-scroll/ or https://qodeinteractive.com/magazine/drag-interactions-in-web-design)

• Then on the website there is also the random choice like in the printed notebook to play the game "how to make a notebook that"

• Notification when you want to close the window of the website: you have to close it first! Every time you open all the pages when you close it you have to close all the pages before leaving (like with a real notebook!) why do we leave websites without closing them? Are they always open?

example of how the website could look like

People can add notes and on the side you have an question mark and you click on and you see the notes of people on top of specific pages that have specific notes that can appear and disappear (see annotation tool from special issue 16 at https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/si16/annotation-compass/ + see image)

Reasons

As we create our personal spaces in the physical world, how can we perceive a similar feeling online? How can we expand and edit the spaces that already have intrinsic limits? Maybe creating limits inside the limits to give more freedom of choice in defining the limits of the space.

Questions:

The notebook reconnects to the digital space in some way or not? Are they different experiments? why both? can the digital be a way to try to shift the same values to the internet? mmmmmm

Print of the wikiroll

nd print it using pagedjs in size 174x17cm and (120x97cm) - they also broke in the machine that's way they're long the same....... hacking the printing machine to convince her to print on super long sheets

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  paper wikiscroll

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4 rows analogue random choice

analogue random choice prototype

it's not exactly as i imagined, but it does the work: choose option, make notebook that follows the restrictions, niceeeeee

i will make a new version that works better

Prepare for Clara: TO DO ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY MORNING

how to present my work properly? what's wrong with me? what can i do different/improve in my way of presenting the project?

I don’t understand what I should say specifically in different situation

This is what I’d say to a teacher in this situation

This is how I would say it to a friend

This is how I would say it to someone who doesn’t know

This is what I would say if I have 3 minutes

(Gather materials and presentations and schemes on the presentation assessment etc)

What are the important things to make the project clear? Everyone gets stuck on different things; what do I do when I explain something I think it’s clear and then they ask me about it like I never said anything about it? (I probably said it wrong way?)

24.04.23

the final PROJECT will consist in 2 parts: (see 19.04 for the concepts - this is a general overview of the aims to obtain through what is now just prototypes)

A) A modular notebook that alternates info (on different features of notebooks, where to find materials etc), activities to make notebooks, and the invitation to reflect on the notebook practice.

This is about involving others, to make notebooks' making more accessible/a tool of expression

B) How to publish a notebook making practice? How to make a notebook public? (and accessible by others)

a website with scanned notebook that is built by the users? see 19.04 for the concept of the website

This is about documenting, storytelling, experiencing.

ps:// accessible means: able to be reached or easily obtained; possible to approach, enter, or use; easy to understand or enjoy.

01.05.23

break time - or not so break

i am feeling exhausted again

i feel that if i cannot work actively, writing helps a lot to re-organise thoughts and spend some time reasoning without freaking out, that it's normally what happens when i think without a structure (that it's also functional to have great ideas but it's tiring). I do it both here and on my notebook.

UPDATE 1: i bought a VPS to work on my own wiki/websites with Manetta on Monday 8th of May, i do not know were we are going but i like to write on the wiki and would love to have my own

new examples of generators (from M): https://zcmag.xyz/zine-idea-generator/?type=71&action=18&topic=312&nomature=0&plainmode=0&classroom=null

i tried to make the website with toggle/hide but it's not what I wanted so i'm researching easy alternatives to make it work

i also need a new prototype of the notebook for next monday but i have a scarcity of ideas and I am finding hard to concentrate, I will try.

UPDATE 2:

I experienced with clara two ways of talking about my work, one from the heart and one following a scheme. Both offer different features and helps in understanding a part of the project. How to improve it and merge these two techniques?

Be more introspective, talk about my experience, make a list of my prototypes and discoveries <-------------------

In addition, implement a note-taking exercise as part of the assessment (e.g. write horizontally and then vertically, does something change in your way of taking notes?)

A few questions to freak me out:

1) What is your audience?

2) What is your methodology? --> the manipulation of space? talking/discussing with people? making?

XPUB COLLECTIVE WORK

Collective publication: it needs to be accessible from the outside, but what's important to me is considering how much material we already have and will do nothing with, instead of thinking about creating a whole new thing from scratch. I would like the publication to be a patchwork of all our states, from the thesis writing, from notebooks, from texts (also not from us if possible?), from wikis, pictures. I know it could be hard to work from material we already have because we think it's gonna be messy and un-understandable from the outside, but everyone could make an effort and produce a certain selection; then we could mix everything together, maybe the publication could be a big map that needs to go on the floor where all our materials reconnect and can also be closed as a book; or a projection on the ceiling and all the participants have to lie down to explore (remember unfolding implicancies?). I think I wouldn't like one page/section each like a catalogue.

About the event: I liked when we imagined a living room; it's a bit of a cliche but that's also where we spend time all together talking and eating; this is so part of our experience in xpub. Then, everyone would be free to move around the space and find a spot for their work. Some people will do audio, some people could like to organise an experience for visitors; we could have the living room as a "rentable" space during the day and have our discussions/conversations/workshops/experiences/activities around this space. Anyone who has a publication to sell/share/spread, we could create a living room library /a public shelf?/ that everyone has access to. We need to think though, if there are a lot of people how do we behave, how big the living room should be....