UPDATE: And we have some winners. I’ll be contacting Andrew, Rachel and Kris to get their contact info and will send them the small Moleskine journals (after I finish the screenprinting). Thanks to everyone who participated!

After some Twitter friends started begging for my extra Moleskine journals that were not given away at Christmas, I decided maybe I should use them as a contest prize. I plan to design a custom Gocco screen print for them.

What I want in exchange, are your comments about how you take notes. When I translate a Hebrew passage, I create a notebook which contains all the details and notes of my translation. When I read a book, I put Post-It™ notes in the margins and write my thoughts. But I also love to carry around mini Moleskine journals for keeping track of expenses, photography details, book finds, and newly made contacts. I do take notes with my laptop and iPhone too.

So, what kind of note-taking preferences do you have? Digital or paper? Do you back up notes on Evernote? Do you scan paper notes for archive purposes (I do)? What computer software or iPhone apps do you use? What kind of physical paper or notebook do you prefer?

I’ll keep this contest open until January 15th, and then I’ll pick a few comments at random to receive the Moleskine journals.

Thank you to everyone who contributed opinions and experiences about the textbooks you learned Hebrew with (or teach with). To see the original contest post (and comments), go here.

    
And the winners (chosen via a random number generator) are:

• Bob MacDonald
• John Murphy
• Sytze van der Laan
• Rick

I’ll be in touch with you to find out if you are going to SBL or if I need to mail the Og comic book to you.

Ken Brown!

Thank you to everyone who entered the first ever B2B contest. Ken was randomly selected from all the submissions and will be receiving his very own set of Hebrew Aleph-Bet magnets.

Ken’s suggestion was:

There’s the iVocab program, which includes the 1000 or so most common lexemes on audio-visual flashcards readable for your iPod. It also includes pre-made playlists for each of the vocab lists accompanying in several intro Hebrew Grammars. I have both the Greek and Hebrew versions and found them useful, though installing them was a bit cumbersome.

http://store.kregel.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1809

If you didn’t win this time, don’t worry! This may have been the first, but it won’t be the last contest. Or should I say this may have been the Aleph, but it won’t be the Tav (see here for context).

I’ve been looking over everyone’s suggestions and will post a review of the submitted vocabulary resources soon.