Problem: Note taking in the Shower

Sometimes I have really good ideas in the shower. Sometimes I think in the pool. I didn’t have a good way to capture those notes and trying to keep paper dry is doable but it usually means trying to get to a towel to dry your hands before you can grab an index card and write.

In a some book I’d read someone referenced using a diver slate which is a small rectangle that provides two erasable writing surfaces for a carbon pencil. I found a company that makes a 45 page notebook in the same style.

Solution:
Dive Rite Dive wRites Underwater Notebook

There are also companies like Rite in the Rain that makes waterproof paper in various formats (notebooks, loose leaf). Combine them with weatherproof pens like the Fisher Matte Black Bullet Space Pen and you are free to write in any condition.

I went with the diver slate for now since it is erasable and I just need it for temporary capture. A weatherproof notebook could be useful for long term writing in inclement weather or just to reduce the damage of coffee spill related incidents.