Information management system

• US 5,333,908 A
• Filed: 01/22/1993
• Issued: 08/02/1994
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Memorybank Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Memorybank Incorporated
• Inventors: Dorney, Keith R., Dorney, Robert C.
• Primary Examiner(s): ROSENBAUM, MARK
• Application Number:
  US08/008,082
• Time in Patent Office: 557 Days
• Field of Search: 283/34, 283/36, 283/37, 283/38, 283/62, 283/67, 283/64.1, 283/66.1, 462/78, 462/8, 206/232, 251/2, 251/5, 251/34, 402/4, 402/79
• US Class Current: 283/38
• CPC Class Codes: B42F 3/003 Perforated or punched sheets

Abstract

Information is recorded, organized, and formatted using a computer, and printed onto paper provided with track-feed holes which are used both for feeding through a printer and for mounting the paper on ring elements of a binder. The pages are provided with fold lines such that the pages may be folded along the line to fit within the binder. When a page is unfolded, a foldout leaf projects outward beyond an edge of the binder so that the leaf and information recorded thereon is visible while turned to a different page in the notebook. Various paper designs allow tailoring of the system to user needs. In addition, step-indexing of pages allows headers on numerous pages to be visible simultaneously. Also disclosed is a task-oriented system for organizing information wherein the pages in the notebook are separated into sections and wherein pages in a section are devoted to a single topic.

Claims

1. A notebook for an information management system for efficiently recording, organizing and accessing information, said notebook comprising:

a binder having more than three ring elements for mounting pages, said elements being spaced from each other by multiples of one-half inch; and

a plurality of pages mounted in said binder, each page having a left margin with a column of holes close to a left side of the page and said holes being continuously spaced from each other by one-half inch along the entire length of said left margin and adapted to receive and engage a left drive member of a conventional track feed printer for printing on said page, selected ones of said holes being engaged by said ring elements when mounted in said binder, said left margin being joined to said page in a permanent integral manner without a tear line so that said holes are well adapted for securing the pages in the binder;

each of said pages being formed from a sheet having a tear line formed approximately midway across the width of said sheet, said tear line defining one of said pages to the left of said tear line and one of said pages to the right of said tear line; and

a second column of holes on each of said sheets to the right of said tear line, with the holes of the second column being continuously spaced from each other by approximately one-half inch and corresponding to the holes of said margin, said second column being spaced from the tear line in an amount approximately equal to the spacing between the left side of the sheet and said left margin column of holes.

2. A notebook for an information management system for efficiently recording, organizing and accessing information, said notebook comprising:

a binder having more than a three-ring elements for mounting pages, said elements being spaced from each other by multiples of 1/2 inch; and

a plurality of pages mounted in said binder, each page having a left margin with a column of holes close to a left side of the page and said holes being continuously spaced from each other by 1/2 inch along the entire length of said left margin and adapted to receive and engage a left drive member of a conventional track feed printer for printing on said page, selected ones of said holes being engaged by said ring elements when mounted in said binder, said left margin being joined to said page in a permanent integral manner without a tear line so that said holes are well adapted for securing the pages in the binder,

each of said pages being formed from a sheet including a right margin having a column of holes close to a right edge of the page, said right column holes being continuously spaced from each other by one-half inch along the entire length of said right margin and adapted to receive and engage a right drive member of said printer,

each of said sheets including a tear line forming a left edge of said right margin so as to make said right margin readily separable from said sheet after printing,

each of said sheets including a first vertical perforation line and a second vertical perforation line defining a discardable strip of said page therebetween, said first perforation line being positioned to define a desired width of a left page of said sheet which includes said left margin, and said sheet perforation line being positioned to define a desired width of a right page which includes said right margin.