The Circa System
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Of the various products I have bought over the years, the one that is most useful to me is the Circa system. It is both unique and most versatile for my purposes. I have been happy to recommend it to a number of people.
I am a compulsive documenter. While I was an undergraduate student in the early 1950s, I discovered that, for me, the easiest means for learning what I thought on any subject, including personal affairs, was to write out my thoughts. I sorted out my thoughts by writing them out. This discovery lead to my keeping typed journals for most classes and a hand-written journal for my personal life.
I continued this documentation during my graduate studies and during my 48 year career as a consulting engineer. The typed journals were much improved in the mid 1980s by the advent of computer word processor programs, since I never bothered to correct the numerous typos occurring in the early journals.
However, word-processor technology was of no use to me in my hand-written personal journals. For many years, I bought large, 12 ½ inch by 10 ½ - inch
Boorum & Pease, hard-bound columnar books (No. 1602 ½ -300Q) in which I could refer to material that I pasted into the pages of handwriting. These journals were 300-pages and heavy. They were also expensive. Moreover, being hard-bound, pages could not be added or replaced. I carried one of these journals in my brief case literally, all over the world.
Then, thanks to Levenger, I discovered Circa, which is to hand-written journals what a word-processor is to typed journals. I can add and replace pages, and, using the light-weight, portable Circa punch, I can add whole pages of reference material without messing with glue or tape. Each year I buy a translucent notebook cover and large, one-inch rings. I then transfer the year’s accumulation of pages in the Circa leather jacket in which I maintain my journal pages for the current year.
Circa is simple, neat, economical, light-weight and most useful for anyone keeping a hand-written journal for any purpose.
Of the various products I have bought over the years, the one that is most useful to me is the Circa system. It is both unique and most versatile for my purposes. I have been happy to recommend it to a number of people.
I am a compulsive documenter. While I was an undergraduate student in the early 1950s, I discovered that, for me, the easiest means for learning what I thought on any subject, including personal affairs, was to write out my thoughts. I sorted out my thoughts by writing them out. This discovery lead to my keeping typed journals for most classes and a hand-written journal for my personal life.
I continued this documentation during my graduate studies and during my 48 year career as a consulting engineer. The typed journals were much improved in the mid 1980s by the advent of computer word processor programs, since I never bothered to correct the numerous typos occurring in the early journals.
However, word-processor technology was of no use to me in my hand-written personal journals. For many years, I bought large, 12 ½ inch by 10 ½ - inch
Boorum & Pease, hard-bound columnar books (No. 1602 ½ -300Q) in which I could refer to material that I pasted into the pages of handwriting. These journals were 300-pages and heavy. They were also expensive. Moreover, being hard-bound, pages could not be added or replaced. I carried one of these journals in my brief case literally, all over the world.
Then, thanks to Levenger, I discovered Circa, which is to hand-written journals what a word-processor is to typed journals. I can add and replace pages, and, using the light-weight, portable Circa punch, I can add whole pages of reference material without messing with glue or tape. Each year I buy a translucent notebook cover and large, one-inch rings. I then transfer the year’s accumulation of pages in the Circa leather jacket in which I maintain my journal pages for the current year.
Circa is simple, neat, economical, light-weight and most useful for anyone keeping a hand-written journal for any purpose.
posted by Bob Baker at 5:25 AM
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