Clipmarks | Ryan Rasmussen's 'circa notebook' clips

Co-Creation and Online Community: DIY Planner and Levenger

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:27:34 GMT

clipped by: Ryan Rasmussen
clipper's remarks: "For companies interested in co-creation like this, the most important step is participation. Speak with communities as a genuine, authentic person interested in learning and collaboration. Earn trust by giving more than you receive. Prototype alongside your customers, and share your failures as frequently as your successes. Be remarkable."

Clip Source: hdbizblog.com

I was recently contacted for a brief interview on collaboration and co-creation by Insight Magazine, and my friend Ryan Rasmussen and I were quoted in the magazine. You can see it online here, or find it on newsstands.

The magazine article was inspired by discussions that Ryan had with the D*I*Y*Planner community. When I got to meet Ryan face-to-face at SOBCon in Chicago this past May, I asked him about those discussions and how they led to a new product being offered by the company that he worked for. Then he showed me the prototype of the “Circa PDA” (or cPDA) that he developed with the productivity/planner community:

For companies interested in co-creation like this, the most important step is participation. Speak with communities as a genuine, authentic person interested in learning and collaboration. Earn trust by giving more than you receive. Prototype alongside your customers, and share your failures as frequently as your successes. Create a remarkable experience.

Tags: community, levenger, productivity, co-creation, peer production, innovation, notebook, circa, hacking, collaboration

Circa Notebook Review: The San Diego Transcript

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:25:13 GMT

clipped by: Ryan Rasmussen
clipper's remarks: Phil Baker of the San Diego Transcript reviews Levenger's Circa Notebook as a low-tech counterpart to a high-tech environment. The mass of prosumer DIY forms and templates online has transformed the disc-bound notebook line into an "open system."

Clip Source: blog.philipgbaker.com

Innovating the basics: A new kind of notebook (San Diego Transript column)

While today's spiral notebooks and three-ring binders are much the same as they were 40 years ago, Levenger, a Florida-based company, has created a much improved design, called Circa. It fits right into our high-technology environment, providing a solution that lets us intermingle handwritten notes, which a vast majority of us still use, with computer-generated output.

Tags: levenger, circa, circa notebook, technology, open system, spiral notebook, productivity, review

Lifemuncher: "My Killer GTD Setup"

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:05:46 GMT

clipped by: Ryan Rasmussen
clipper's remarks: Detailed account of GTD process with photographs.

Clip Source: lifemuncher.blogspot.com

Lifemuncher

Make the most of it.

My Killer GTD Setup

I've been tagged! I feel like a real live blogger now.

gtdfrk, of the Getting Things Done blog has invited me to tell you all about my "Killer GTD Setup." And since I love talking about this stuff, here we go...

Over the years I've tried a zillion different systems. Though I'll admit I do enjoy switching around and setting up new systems just for the fun of it, the truth is that with each change I learn something new, and my setup gets a little bit better.

Here are the three main things I've learned about myself and GTD:

I take lots of notes, and I always have my notebook nearby. I use my Circa notebook for everything, including meetings. I process my notebook when it's convenient, going through my notes to look for new projects and action items and adding them to the appropriate list.

Tags: gtd, getting things done, circa notebook, diyplanner

HDBizBlog

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:05:44 GMT

clipped by: Ryan Rasmussen

Clip Source: hdbizblog.com

I will wait for Rasmussen to drop by and tell me what he thought of the book (if he’s read it). I am also going to need some of that grid paper for my new calendar/organizer.

I started capturing ideas on 3×5 cards, and although that method seems to work remarkably well for Tom Peters (at least seven international bestsellers so far), I personally found the size a bit small for this stage of the ideation process. I was dashing off quick notes, clipping quotes out of magazines, drawing diagrams to represent the ideas visually, and found myself eager to “color outside the lines” of the 3×5 format. I next experimented with large custom-made (and very labor-intensive) cards I cut from 8-1/2x 11 card stock, but they got unwieldy.

Finally, on The Ten Faces of Innovation, I tried the Levenger Circa notebooks in the junior size, turning them sideways and using the grid-style paper so I could write horizontally or vertically. It was perfect!

Using a Capture Notebook

Tags: tom kelley, ten faces, innovation, ten faces of innovation, ideo

Hacking the Levenger Oasis Pad Holder: The Circa Notebook Dock

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:00:06 GMT

clipped by: Ryan Rasmussen

Clip Source: rrasmussen.tumblr.com

Circa Dock : Hacking the Levenger Oasis Pad Holder

Link to photoset

Removing the adhesive that binds the shoulders of the oasis pad backer allows a letter-sized notebook to be inserted. The backer transforms into a Circa notebook desktop dock.

Tags: levenger, circa, notebook, oasis

Clipmarks | Ryan Rasmussen's 'circa notebook' clips

Co-Creation and Online Community: DIY Planner and Levenger

Circa Notebook Review: The San Diego Transcript

Concept to Consumer by Phil Baker

My weekly personal technology column from the The San Diego Transcript, plus observations based on developing scores of products. (Now on AM 600 KOGO radio 1st Sunday of each month at 10 am)

Innovating the basics: A new kind of notebook (San Diego Transript column)

Lifemuncher: "My Killer GTD Setup"

Lifemuncher

My Killer GTD Setup

HDBizBlog

Using a Capture Notebook

Hacking the Levenger Oasis Pad Holder: The Circa Notebook Dock

Circa Dock : Hacking the Levenger Oasis Pad Holder

Clipmarks | Ryan Rasmussen's 'circa notebook' clips

Co-Creation and Online Community: D*I*Y Planner and Levenger

Circa Notebook Review: The San Diego Transcript

Concept to Consumer by Phil Baker

My weekly personal technology column from the The San Diego Transcript, plus observations based on developing scores of products. (Now on AM 600 KOGO radio 1st Sunday of each month at 10 am)

Innovating the basics: A new kind of notebook (San Diego Transript column)

Lifemuncher: "My Killer GTD Setup"

Lifemuncher

My Killer GTD Setup

HDBizBlog

Using a Capture Notebook

Hacking the Levenger Oasis Pad Holder: The Circa Notebook Dock

Circa Dock : Hacking the Levenger Oasis Pad Holder

Co-Creation and Online Community: DIY Planner and Levenger