Recently I have invested in another piece of technology in this struggle to keep information under control - a stock of shorthand notebooks. They work rather like a to-do list.

Notebooks containing confidential information about a child protection meeting are among private information lost by North Somerset Council. The authority said six shorthand notebooks and four A4 ...

The shorthand notebooks, believed to have been written by Sir Douglas's secretary, were found in Eastbourne when the owners were clearing the flat.

“Shorthand notebook can at best be treated as a memo of what is dictated to a steno to be later transcribed into a draft judgment or an order. When draft judgments and order do not form part of ...

In practice, alas, I never did acquire the habit of carrying it around. On journalistic assignments, now as then, I still use boring shorthand notebooks instead, or the backs of press releases.

The authority said six shorthand notebooks and four A4 pads had later been found by a council contractor who then handed them to police. The data protection breach was one of 16 by the council in ...