I realized that my “using now” feature hadn’t been updated in quite a while, since October 2018. I finished all my main notebooks around the end of the year, so my daily carry is completely different. As usual, I have a few other notebooks in progress as well.

Daily Carry Notebooks

As noted in other posts, my 2018 Nolty diary was replaced with a 2019 Nolty Gold, the upgraded version with a leather cover. I’m enjoying using it, but trying to decide if the extra cost is worth it. I do love the leather and the additional supplemental booklet, but it’s more than double the price of the regular Nolty, and I am thinking I might go back to the plastic cover for 2020. We’ll see…

My catch-all journal/jotter/commonplace book is back to being a squared hardcover Moleskine from my stash of early 2000’s stock. I like trying other things in between but I’m always happy to come back to these.

My sketchbook is a Moleskine. Back in October, I’d been thinking I would try using a Bindewerk linen journal with plain pages for sketching, but I guess I forgot about that intention and just grabbed a Moleskine. I haven’t been drawing as much lately so it will take me a while to finish this one.

I keep intending to work some other brands into my daily usage (see this post for Moleskine alternatives I’ve used in the past) so we’ll what the next few months bring!

Other Frequently or Occasionally Used Notebooks

I’m also trying to finish a Moleskine Watercolor sketchbook that I’ve been using on and off for several years. A Pentalic watercolor sketchbook is also in progress, as I seem to find myself alternating between the two. (See review comparing watercolor sketchbooks)

The Michael Roger Decomposition book is still the repository of lots of home renovation notes. Including the “I’m trying to understand what you mean when you tell me my whole house is out of square” drawings. [Sigh.]

I bought an extra 2019 Nolty diary (regular, not gold) in the smaller size that fits in a passport Travelers Notebook. I haven’t put it in the TN, but instead I’ve been using it as a sort of visual commonplace book, pasting in random images that appeal to me, one per week.

I also occasionally use an old Hobonichi Techo for handwriting practice with fountain pens.

I have a few other notebooks that are incomplete but not active. I’m not sure if I should convert them to other purposes just to use them up, so for the moment, they’ll just kind of live in a limbo pile. This includes a couple of HandBook Artist Journals and a Conceptum notebook.