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My background is in Electrical Engineering, and we were always taught to keep a work journal with specific features so it would be a legal document. I just figu
by asynchronous13 14y ago
My background is in Electrical Engineering, and we were always taught to keep a work journal with specific features so it would be a legal document. I just figured they were trying to sell us the more expensive notebooks. That is, until some colleagues were called to court to testify in a patent challenge about the contents of their journals (regarding work from 10 years prior). I take my journal a lot more seriously now.
If the notebook is bound (can't add or remove pages), with pre-numbered pages (proves no pages added or removed), and entries are dated, it's pretty much automatically admissible in court. Loose or missing pages, hand written page numbers, missing dates -- won't necessarily make it inadmissible, but it leaves room for the work to be challenged by the opposing team.
- gmrple 14y agoThey taught me to have it signed, by myself and someone else every day.
- autotravis 14y ago"If the notebook is bound (can't add or remove pages), with pre-numbered pages (proves no pages added or removed)..." Does anyone know of a good place to get an inexpensive (and leatherless) one of these? I would say any notebook would work, but I haven't ran on to many with numbered pages.
- brainid 14y agoThe National Brand Computation Notebook is popular. $12 from Amazon. I have used them for years.
- mbreese 14y agoThose are my favorite. I used those a ton in grad school and I highly recommend them. The only downside is that they are pretty large. For my walk-around notebook that I carry to meetings for notes, etc, I use a quad ruled Moleskine. The pages aren't numbered, but they are permanently bound.
- richardjordan 14y agoThanks for the tip - nice notebook - I wish I could get a nice hard cover book WITH numbered pages.
- billswift 14y agoCheck out accountants' Journals, they have lined paper rather than quadrille, but they work well.
- lallysingh 14y agoAvailable off of amazon: http://www.leuchtturm1917.com/ http://www.leuchtturm1917.com/ I switched from moleskines, and have been quite happy.
- richardjordan 14y agonice tip
- eckyptang 14y agoDoes anyone know a UK supplier for these or similar? I've been after a decent notebook for about 10 years but all you can get here is crap.
- getriver 14y agoSadly I've never run into a notebook with pre-numbered pages. I did buy the Think/Create/Record for less than 4 bucks. Numbering them isn't as time consuming as you'd think them to be. Someone mentioned composition books, they're leatherless and inexpensive.
- edu 14y agoI got one of those from a friend doing research at University , her department always has a good stock of them.