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Legal pads
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Legal pads

Created
Nov 23, 2022 11:00 AM
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  • People who write on legal pads
    • Jerry Seinfeld
    • Obama
    • Maya Angelou
    • Many others
  • No one seems to know why they are yellow
    • Originated from Ampad / Thomas Holley
      • A great “selling sawdust” story—he took the leftover paper and made them into pads
  • Product Idea
    • Explain ways to use a legal pad for your writing
      • Benefits vs typing
        • First drafts similar to the famous people
    • Benefits vs using other types of notebooks
      • Other types of notebooks are too “precious”
      • Subtle contrast of the lines against yellow is less intrusive
      • Easily findable
    • Benefits vs post-it notes
      • Less scattered for those of us who are easily distracted and overwhelmed, enforces chronology
    • Drawing like Peter Draws
    • Stationery accompaniments
      • Obama uses Uniball Vision Elite (doesn’t smudge)
      • Jerry Seinfeld uses bic pens

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