The Writing Cushion
How a seat-cushion solved an issue that I had with almost every notebook ever.
Depending on notebook, I am usually having the problem that the height of the notebook is causing issues writing on or near the edges of the book. I like to keep things consistent whenever possible, but it's usually on the bottom third where my handwriting deteriorates simply because it's a pain to place the hand somewhere.
During last summer already I noticed in Jose Naranja's blog-post about " Useful tools which can be kept in a Notebook " that he is using a foam-cushion to address this issue.
💡 One a side note I suggest to check out his work on his blog in general, the notebooks that he is creating are beyond mind-boggling.
During a grocery trip it dawned me that the same can easily be achieved with a cheapo portable seat-cushion simply cut to size! (I should have taken an image prior the cutting but a simple search for portable foldable foam seat pad will most likely yield some useful results.)
A quick cutting later and I came out with this:
The seat cushion cut in half, which turns out to be right width for a A5 or an A6 notebook, depending on alignment. The cushion itself is about A6 size. All-in-all this does have three layers, the original seat-cushion would allow four-layers, which I though don't need.
What I like is, that this can be easily adjusted to height, depending on page-position in the book, and since the cushion is technically still in one piece, just narrower, it is nicely staying in place and not falling into its parts:
Three layers, that is the whole thing folded together
And here one example on a page with less of a gap:
In this case I am using the notebook folded out, to two layers.
I am using these seat-cushions for about a year now and find them very comfortable and of course lightweight and by this saw an significantly improvement to my handwriting. Also they make choosing a notebook much easier as I don't have to take the height of the edge into consideration when looking for a new notebook.
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