Da Vinci knew it--notebooks are *the* killer app for creative thinking. | RadioWest | KUER Podcasts

These days, you might type ideas into the Notes app. But that’s just a testament to the importance of history’s real creative titan: the humble notebook.
Leonardo da Vinci kept a notebook. So did Frida Kahlo, Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, and even Chaucer. If you recognize someone from history, chances are good they kept a notebook or a diary, somewhere they could write out their ideas and consider new ones. In so doing, they helped make the world we know today. In a new book, the writer Roland Allen tells the history of the notebook and argues for its continued relevance today. He says that actually taking the time to put pen to paper not only makes us more creative, but it just may make us happier, too.
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Roland Allen | Author of “The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper.”
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