I was very pleased to get my shipment of 2021 Nolty diaries straight from Japan in mid-September. Ordering directly from JMAM worked great! Because I was buying multiple notebooks, the shipping costs worked out well, but if I’d only ordered one or two notebooks, I might have been better off paying Kinokuniya’s higher retail prices and picking up in their NYC store to save on shipping.

I got another leather Nolty Gold diary, which will be my third.

I decided to try this year’s dark green version of the regular Efficiency Notebook. The green is so dark, it almost looks black in some light. (Shown with a 2020 diary in black for color contrast.) The plan is to use this as an image diary, as I’ve done the past 2 years.

This red one is for a friend.

I got 2 of the 2021 Nolty Notebooks. The only thing that is dated is one page with a 2021 yearly calendar. The entire rest of the notebook is graph paper. I don’t really love the shade of pink on the “Sakura” notebook , and am generally not someone who likes pink, but I bought it to have something different. Now I kind of wish I had gotten the Mulberry shade instead. The charcoal grey color is much more my style, though I was surprised that the grey notebook has a smooth texture on the cover. The mottled look is due to color only. I’m not sure if any other Nolty notebooks have this cover texture. I’m looking forward to using these for general note taking, or perhaps I’ll try doing a page a day, as a replacement for the Nolty Daily Book, which wasn’t continued for 2021.

My order came with this little packet of sticky note tabs– so cute! What a nice free surprise.

So that’s all my 2021 Nolty diaries. I am looking forward to another year using these sleek, practical, fountain pen friendly notebooks!