I guess you’re really are on the GTD bandwagon when you purchase your first Moleskine. I went to the bookstore the other day to enhance my Ruby library, and picked up a moleskine on a whim, whilst waiting in the checkout line.
I must admit the hype surrounding these things is seductive, the craftsmanship is great, and they were used by Hemingway. After getting it home, I submit the following:
So it’s the Hipster PDA for me. The moleskine has been passed on to SWMBO, as a birthday stocking stuffer. She writes a longhand journal, and will get much more use of it than I will.
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Update: I’ll buy SWMBO another moleskine, if she digs it, and wants another. Moleskines have no place in my current mode of operation. Unless, of course, I become a Hemingway 
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I think the Moleskine or Hipster means you’re on the 37Folders or 46Rules or 12GeeseALaying bandwagon.
I went through all this with GTD, but ultimately reverted back to the system of my own devising…hardbound journal, with sticky-note to-dos, complemented by the Treo that syncs Outlook. I found the biggest problem to be that the overwhelming majority of my colleagues are not even to that point, much less something as advanced as a BaseCamp or a JotSpot. Crikey, they still run IE and wail about the pop-ups. You can’t help people like that.
I’d love to read in the future about your usage of the Hipster, though, especially if you can make it work for you.
“The thing is too pristine. How do you properly write ‘buy cat food’ in such an opulent book?” – I agree, but why don’t you turn it into a journal? I’ve had a couple of blogs I’ve written for first in my Moleskine notebook. Just keep it with you a lot of the time and scribble down the topics you might write on later, or just use it for brainstorming.
http://www.adagereport.com/?action=view&id=23&title=Moleskine-Notebooks-and-Other-Neuroses