Always all your notes at hand and yet permanently gone in an instant
As a blogger, I want to get my ideas down on paper immediately throughout the day, so that I get space in my head and don't forget anything valuable. However, I also don't want to have a huge paper trail of outlines, keywords to remind me of something and recipes to work out. The solution is usually to write it down on a piece of paper, type it on the computer and then throw the piece of paper away. Bummer! Way too much paper wasted this way.
So I was overjoyed when I discovered Greenbook. Now I write down my ideas, type them on the computer and just erase them! That way I can get a lifetime out of one notebook!
Brainstorm
I drag my Greenbook everywhere I go. When I work at my desk it is next to me, when I cook it is on the kitchen counter and when I travel it is in my bag. This way I can make space in my head anytime and anywhere by writing down my ideas. Neat doesn't have to be, after all, I process them later that day or the next day on my laptop anyway. Then I just erase them again in my Greenbook and I'm ready for another round of brainstorming!
Recipes
Another thing I find my Greenbook especially ideal for is writing down recipes. This works both ways: when I think of a recipe and when I want to recreate a recipe.
When I come up with a recipe, I don't start writing it down until I work it out for my blog, by which time I will have long forgotten exactly what I did. No, I put my Greenbook on the kitchen counter and immediately write down everything I do. Then when I'm ready to work out the recipe for on my blog, I can type it up in no time. Then I erase the recipe and there's room for another new treat!
However, the other way works as well. If I come across a recipe of my own or someone else's on my laptop and want to make it, I find it a waste to print it out. I then write it in keywords in my Greenbook and walk to the kitchen with it. I cook or bake the recipe and then erase it again. If I do this often enough with my own recipes, I know them by heart after a while, by the way ?
Peace of mind for the environment as well as your head
I think a nice side benefit of Greenbook is that it brings more peace to my mind than a paper notebook or draft. Paper is something definitive anyway: you tend to keep it longer because you might be able to put something else on that same piece of paper, and then when you finally throw it away it goes through several more steps before it's actually out of your house. If I write something in my Greenbook and later erase it, it really is gone.
I can't "un-erase" it, gone is gone.
This is much more definitive and therefore gives much more peace in my mind: it's really nowhere anymore. Unlike paper, which ends up first on your desk, then in the garbage bag, then in the dumpster and then, if all goes well, at a paper mill, the message you've just erased in your Greenbook is permanently gone. No more in your head AND no more in the environment: true peace of mind.
About Giulia
On her blog www.renmeisje.com, Giulia talks all kinds of things about a sustainable, conscious lifestyle. From the most delicious plant-based recipes to meditations and from tips for living with less stuff to reviews of green products. She also works at a gym and is an independent copywriter. At www.renmeisje.com, all those passions come together nicely!
