Senator Bob Graham’s notebooks are in the news again, as he’s published a thriller based on his experiences with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the inquiry into 9/11. You are known to take notes and keep a very strict record of everything you do. Do you still do that? Yes. When did you … Continue reading Senator Bob Graham: Notebooks and a Novel
I was very flattered to receive an email from this week’s addict, as she is a highly-regarded children’s author whose books I was already familiar with– the kind of person I’d usually want to ask about their notebook usage, but be too shy to actually do so! Candice wrote 3 blog posts a few months … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Candice Ransom
Oprah is a journaler! Here’s one from her teen years: See more at Oprah’s Private Journals – Diary Excerpts – Oprah.com. Found via mylittlechickadees.blogspot.com.
This week’s addict emailed me a link to her Flickr photo stream, which includes these photos (and more) of her very large collection of journals. Wow: Here’s what she has to say about them: From the attic to various places in my bedroom: paper as far as the eye can see… I’ve always … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Bisonlady
I spent the last couple of days at the BookExpo convention at the Javits Center in New York. It’s mostly focused on book publishing, but there are always some cool stationery vendors there. I spent some time in the Exaclair booth, where Karen showed me their new items, some of which I hope to review … Continue reading Exaclair Booth at BookExpo
I’m more of a Yankees fan myself, but here’s a neat story about a man who captures moments from Mets games in wonderful watercolor sketches: Turning Woeful Mets Into Works of Art – WSJ.com. Every morning during baseball season around 6:15 a.m., after driving to Midtown from Manalapan, N.J., Petruccio takes a cup of coffee … Continue reading Sketchbooks Full of the Mets
Here’s another entry in the modular notebook field, the X17 Notebook, which was kindly sent to me for review by the German manufacturer. (They also make the X47 notebooks, which are a more upscale version in leather, with a metal rod that holds the inserts, and their format is used in DayRunner’s “Life Tracker” notebooks.) … Continue reading X17 Notebook Review
Here’s someone whose notebooks I’d be very curious to see: Former WWE Champion Ultimate Warrior revealed on his official website last week that he is working on a book documenting his career.”Been pulling out and putting together all the files and materials of work that Ive done on and off for years,” he wrote. … Continue reading Even Wrestlers Keep Notebooks
I love the visual journals some people keep in Moleskine diaries. This is a fantastic example, found at Doodlers Anonymous: Loops! is a mommy living in Brussels and she fills her sketchbooks like a diary in living color. You’ll see drawn pages of her family’s travels, her kid’s being sick and the generally overwhelming and … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Loops!’s Visual Diary
Here’s a few cool notebook tips sent in over the past few months by various readers: From Carol, this 100-year diary, which would make a great gift for a new parent: From Victoria, Pantone Notebooks, available from Whitbread Wilkinson in the UK and Heliotrope Home in the USA (some other styles are available at Amazon: … Continue reading Reader Week: Assorted Tips