This week’s addict had to be upgraded to Addict of the Month. Paul has been a faithful reader and correspondent for quite a while now, sharing not only photos of his own notebooks, but links to historical notebooks and other interesting trivia. Did you know, for instance, that the last entry in Samuel Pepys’ diary … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Month: Paul
This week’s addict blogs at Wavy Lines and shares this photo of a stack of journals: I’ve kept diaries or journals ever since I learned to print words. Locked diaries were a favorite until my pre-teen years when I switched to the more mature journals. I have several fancy leather and hardcover journals (see pictures)Â that … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Laura Marcella
Waterfall blogs at “A Sort of Notebook.” You know a blogger likes notebooks when she names her blog after them… and she obviously knows that a mere online journal can’t compare to paper ones. Here’s a photo of all her journals kept since 1980, when she was 10: This is the largest and most consistent … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Waterfall
There were a couple of interesting notebook-related items in yesterday’s New York Times: Investigators looking into Balkan War crimes are still finding evidence— the police raided the Belgrade home of the former Bosnian Serb military leader and found, among other things hidden inside the house’s walls, “18 notebooks of General Mladic’s wartime military diaries.” And … Continue reading Notebooks in the News
I spotted this in Manhattan: Recognize that planner? Looks like a Moleskine to me!
Have you ever had to deal with a problem like this? My boyfriend and I have been dating for 10 months, and we’ve grown extremely close to each other. He’s a wonderful guy, and we’ve talked seriously about marraige. However I have a small problem: he’s read my journal twice now. The first time he … Continue reading “My boyfriend keeps reading my journal”
An article from the Huffington Post that is well worth reading: These days, it seems that everyone knows everything about us. Through Facebook, Twitter, and blogs, your friends and co-workers can learn about all the details of your life–your emotions, your day-to-day experiences, and your thoughts and opinions. But what will your grandchildren know about … Continue reading Preserving Memories: Paper Wins
This is interesting: In reviewing volumes of diaries, mostly written by women, [a researcher] found many terse records about what was happening in daily life in the same style demanded by Twitter’s 140-character limit. Many diary entries ranged, for example, from what was for dinner to reports of deaths, births, marriages and travel, such as … Continue reading 18th Century Diaries Written Like Twitter
This week’s Notebook Addict has been intensively documenting his life in daily journals, kept over many years. The photo below shows 5 years’ worth of notebooks, from 1985 to 1990. I love how beat-up they are, totally covered with writing and doodles. Here’s 15 more journals covering 1994-2005: Here’s what Sean has to say about … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Sean
I enjoyed this article in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine: The Demise of Datebooks, by Virginia Heffernan. I miss my Filofax datebook, with its six rings and dark red leather binder. I had a green one first, with a calendar that cast each week across two cream-colored pages. Back then, at age 30, I was … Continue reading Virginia Heffernan Mourns the Filofax