Just ordered my first moleskine

I definitely approve of Klok though, I’ve used it for a long time now. The UI is incredibly friendly, and it only took me a few minutes to figure everything out. I wrote a review on Klok from a self employed game developers perspective, give it a read if you get the time. Glad to see the developers getting the attention they deserve, they’ve worked hard on giving us a great, free program.

I love Moleskines, but sometimes they are just too expensive (especially when I’m between projects) and I’ve found something pretty close. They’re called Xonex Ru journals and they are pretty cool. I love that they don’t have page lines too which helps for random sketches. I know a wholesaler so let me know if you want his info.

I have them going back more than 10 years now and they are the perfect place to store notes. I’ve gone through 4 or 5 computers in that time and have tons of data stored electronically but I’m always glad I have some things on paper.

@Craig – I need to get a second monitor (it’s on my xmas list). If you’re on a PC you can try notepad++ which (in my opinion) has a lot less bloat than dreamweaver.

I operate on windows and the time tracking software I use is Klok (found at http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/index.htm) it’s made with Adobe Air so it’s multi platform. And my invoices are done with a template (in word) utilising the exported data from Klok.

Some other things that I couldn’t live without is post it notes, have you seen that scene from Bruce Almighty where the room is covered from top to bottom in post its? Well that’s me all over!

Hardware wise I couldn’t live with out my second monitor, a second monitor is a must in my opinion, it’s a place for reference, a place for panels in photoshop, comparisons, live coding it’s a brilliant time saver but most importantly it gives you that space.

Software wise I use Dreamweaver for coding which is a bit typical but I only use it for it’s editor and live view, I don’t utilise dreamweaver to it’s full potential but I learn something pretty handy in it everyday, can you believe I only just found the feature that beautifully orders your HTML in the tree… I was doing that manually!!!

Another great peice of software is bridge, especially for viewing psds and eps files without having to open photoshop/illustrator.

Extensis font suitcase is also a good piece of software for font organisation, i’ve tried many but that’s the best font organisation software I have come across so far.

Pens, pencils and notebooks are a must, I tend not to splash out on expensive notebooks, I go through them like nobodies business. But as for pens I stand firmly by stabilo particularly their coloured pens!