Biffybeans has a review of an interesting travel journal. Although I’m sure this is a great product for some people, I was somewhat turned off by the highly formatted nature of the pages: Sometimes it’s nice to be prompted to enter certain data, but for the most part, I think I am more of a … Continue reading Notebooks With Pre-Formatted Pages
How true this is: A simple, quality notebook can give you just as much of a buzz as owning the latest iPhone, Palm, Blackberry or other device. How to rank your Moleskine addiction at Put Things Off.
I found this fascinating: The Paper Version of the Web. I love seeing the way people think out concepts on paper, especially things like websites, which to me seem almost too fluid and flickering to nail down that way.
I like the look of these Canteo notebooks, featured at Notebookism. Too bad they only seem to be available in Switzerland!
An Etsy seller is making little matchbook-like notebooks as samples to promote her line of journals– very cute!
At Megaquotes, there’s quite a list of quotes about writing. The ones below made me think about my own notebooks: So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. ~Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948 (All those nice fresh … Continue reading Quotable Quotes
David Patrick Columbia, writer of the New York Social Diary, pocketing a notebook: From The New York Times
Here’s an interesting article from The Simple Dollar, in which the writer’s notebooks are a key example of something many of us struggle with: I like pocket notebooks. During my years as a young professional who still harbored some little sliver of a dream of someday becoming a writer, I would often pick up a … Continue reading “Creation versus Consumption”
From Continental Op The other day I purchased a $200 fountain pen. It is an extravagant pen. But, I spend so much of my time writing my thoughts down that it actually seems worth the price. Anyway, it occurred to me the other night that I have so many notebooks that I want to destroy. … Continue reading More Thoughts on Notebooks After Death
Black Cover has just reviewed a very promising Moleskine-alternative, the Picadilly Notebook. It only costs $5, which, given recent economic events, will surely be appealing to all the addicts out there who were planning to cash out their 401ks to buy notebooks. Black Cover has even given readers a code for a 15% discount! Less … Continue reading Two New Notebook Reviews at Black Cover: The Picadilly Notebook and the Agawami +1
