About Soulcraft Journals

Soulcraft Journals like many side projects was borne out of necessity. During the process of building my motorcycle, I needed to keep track of a lot of numbers, ideas, designs, and reference items. I found that I had notes strewn across multiple locations, i.e., my smart phone, shop manual, computer, and random pieces of paper. I needed a place to keep track of everything I was taking apart and attempting to assemble. Using my phone or computer with grubby hands wasn’t always an option. Plus, I like to be able to work out an issue or idea through sketches, on my workbench. Moving forward I wanted a good place to keep track of oil changes, cylinder compression, improvements, wiring, as well as a number of other things I always think I’ll remember. I also figured it’d be nice to have a quick reference guide for measurement conversions that I never used enough to memorize. I also needed something that I could carry with me while riding.

And that’s how the Moto Memo was born!

As a designer/business owner and visual learner* I always enjoy putting putting pen to paper to work out ideas. The Moto Memo seemed like the logical thing to create for myself and I figured if I needed it others might too. Moving forward I found I needed a better goal planner/sketchbook setup and created The Doer. Then came the Photo Memo, so I could keep track of my photography projects and street photography hobby.

Thank you for visiting. I would love to hear from you.

- Robert

*I’m such a visual person that I learned to drive a manual vehicle by looking at the exploded view schematic of the transmission… See, when I was 16 my dad was trying to teach me drive his 1970 JEEP CJ5, that he had for yard work and mountain trips. He took me around the block explaining what he was doing and then we traded places. I couldn’t understand WHY and when I was supposed to shift and give it gas. After taking it around the block a few times and yelling at each other out of frustration we went home. A few minutes later he tossed the shop manual in front of me and had me look up the transmission clutch assembly. As soon as I saw that schematic I KNEW how to drive stick… because I knew WHY I was shifting. I went out right then and was able to drive around the block. I drove that JEEP all through high school as well as the woods of North Georgia.