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This comment is a more for the person who wants to get those offline notes online.
Whitelines makes a notebook and app they call Link. You write your notes in the physical notebook and then use the app to snap a pic. From there you can email, upload to Evernote or Dropbox. They offer a few PDF samples to download, print and try. Someone could probably use those sample pages and design their own templates and create their own notebooks and note pads...

We have those in our office. They are really nice. Crate & Barrel sells that. It's the Sloane Espresso Leaning Media Stand with bookcases.

http://www.crateandbarrel.com/furniture/bookcases-cabinets/sloane-espresso-43.75-leaning-media-stand-with-2-18-bookcases/s315346

Being a designer, I'm always looking for ways to digitally create and maintain moodboards. Currently, I'm using Dropmark to do the job. It's very similar to Pinterest, except that you can make your collections (boards) private. I'm a huge fan of Pinterest, but there are times when I'm working on a project I don't want the whole world to see. Dropmark does have the option to go public so you can share your board with a client or collaborate. It will store videos and music as well.

I recently downloaded Adobe's app titled Collage, but I haven't kicked the tires enough to recommend it.

Thanks for the shout out. Sadly, I haven't used Springpad in a while. I was finding that there were too many apps and it was becoming too complicated. That's not to say it's not a great service. I have been keeping an eye on it and it's made some nice improvements. I would still recommend it in a heartbeat, but the simplicity of Dropmark fits my workflow better. It's not as pretty as Sprindpad, but it gets the job done.

I don't know where you're trying to display these photos, but I have a mac media center in my living room hooked up to a hdtv. I found this app called screenstagram that is a screensaver that displays instagram pics. It looks pretty good on my tv.

I also print out some of them (mostly I've been taking older photos and applying instagram-like effects to them in photoshop), then I print them two up with a small white border on 4x6 photo paper. I have a wire hanging horizontally on my wall (bought wire that is used to hang frames) and I attached the photos using small magnets. They also sell magnetic photo rope at a few places online, but I wanted to DIY. I thought the photos looked great on the glossy paper, but you could buy matte photo paper or try resume paper. You might get some cool results.

I'm glad to see the people commenting that they like the physical book. I work for a publisher and we have been having a debate about whether the printed book will survive. I agree with the article that they can live in harmony.

I can see the value in both forms and in some cases I think I wouldn't mind owning both. I design book covers, so when I come across a gorgeous one, I want to have that on my shelf, but I'd prefer to read the digital version.

Personally, I wouldn't mind moving every type of book to a digital format. Cookbooks, puzzle books, art books, all of them. Although I'm a fan of going digital and I like the convenience, I'm glad that it doesn't look like print will die any time soon.

I'm an Evernote fan. I don't use the software too much, but the web clipping feature gets a workout everyday. I read a lot of design blogs and I'm constantly clipping inspirational images, tuts and articles. I also keep recipes and receipts organized in notebooks.
I've been using it for a couple of years, and next year I'm planning on digging deeper. I'd like to keep all of my project notes there. The idea is to take an ipad to all of my meetings instead of a physical notebook. My department is trying to go paperless, so I can upload all my docs and notes to one place and have access to them anywhere.

I feel like a nerd for writing this, but I name my gadgets. It used to be a random process, either a character from a movie I'd recently watched or an 80's character. My first job out of college I worked IT and my boss (who became and friend and mentor) named his stuff after Transformers. I used to watch the cartoon, but I wasn't the biggest fan. He passed away a year after I left that company, so in his honor, I started use his naming scheme. It's fun now and I try to pick names that represent what the device does, sometime I just pick them because they sound cool! Examples are: smokescreen (tivo), metroplex (nas), jazz (music hdd), meister (backup music hdd), rewind (old ipod), blaster (new ipod), six gun (ps3), scamper (htpc), over ride (4g hotspot), & alpha prime (network). When I get a new toy I can spend 1-60 minutes looking up character list and picking the right name!