Yesterday I showed you how I use InkSeine to Make a Project Binder. Well that's great for work and challenging projects. But with infant identical twin girls in my household, I need a severe coffee infusion when I arrive at work before my brain begins to function. So of course I multitask and do all my web "research" while I'm getting going.

InkSeine makes it easy and fun to collect visual shortcuts to web pages. It is just a zillion times better than looking at a stupid scrolling menu or sidebar that is overflowing with textual shortcuts that all look the same.

With InkSeine, I can lay out all my information spatially on a page of my notebook. I place web sites that I use together in the same area of the page. I collect and annotate interesting posts underneath the shortcuts that I keep to the main sites. Web sites that I don't visit often stay out sight on other pages of my notebook.

The page pictured below is the "front page" of my web notebook, which I use as my main launching pad for surfing. To you this probably looks like a mess, but to me it makes perfect sense, and I know exactly where to stroke my pen to open up any of the web sites that I visit frequently. Even with a dense page of shortcuts like this, there's still room to collect new links and jot down notes at a moment's notice.

Since I took this snapshot I have cleaned up my "launch pad" a bit. I've cut sites that fell into disuse or disfavor (e.g. Gizmodo after their juvenile CES prank). I also had to archive my ever-growing list of "cool GottaBeMobile.com blog posts" to a subsequent page in this note where I keep links to Tablet PC-related tech articles. I have other pages where I archive Surface Computing related stuff, a list of all the InkShows on GottaBeMobile.com that I want to check out (complete with my notes on the ones I've already watched), or my page of online videos that I like to keep handy.

To me, the information super-highway is a notebook page with plenty of wide open space. There's no speed limit on how fast I can fly around with my pen.

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