Here’s another story found via a reader tip. (Thanks Nicholas!) In a new book called Facebook: The Inside Story, author Steven Levy talks about Mark Zuckerberg’s notebooks, and it turns out that Levy even has some pages from one of the early notebooks. Zuckerberg has supposedly destroyed the rest. THE YEAR IÂ first met Zuckerberg, he … Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg’s Notebooks
During an interview with Tim Ferriss, Neil Gaiman talks about his love for Leuchtturm notebooks and the Pilot Falcon fountain pen, among other writing tools: Tim Ferriss: You mentioned distraction earlier and your dangerously adorable son, which I certainly agree with. I had read somewhere, actually, before I get to that, this might seem like a … Continue reading Neil Gaiman on Notebooks and Fountain Pens
I love getting tips from readers, and this is a really special one. (Thanks Matt!) Itsuo Kobayashi, a former Japanese soba chef born in 1962 … has recorded his meals in painstakingly detailed, hand-drawn food diaries of sorts for the past 32 years. In addition to recollections about taste, Kobayashi’s pen has accounted for every … Continue reading A Japanese Chef’s Notebooks
This is pretty inspiring: Sean Äaberg is an artist and game designer who had a stroke in late 2018. During his recovery over the following 16 months, he kept sketchbooks, re-learning how to draw day by day. His wife shares them in this video. Read more about him at Boing Boing: Artist Sean Äaberg’s stroke … Continue reading Sketching Through Stroke Recovery
Will police notebooks become a thing of the past? Officers in New York City will no longer be keeping hand-written activity logs, as they are switching to an iPhone app: For more than a century, the New York City Police Department has required its officers to keep a detailed, handwritten memo book while on patrol. … Continue reading No More Notebooks for NYC Cops
This week’s notebook addict was spotted on Instagram, with quite the stack of notebooks and journals! (There are more in the video.) View this post on Instagram 💕🖤 Read them All 💕🖤 💕🖤 The Good & the Bad 💕🖤 💕🖤 " Ah to be able to express myself as an engine expresses itself " – … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Isabel Val Bento
Mark LaFlamme at the Lewiston Sun Journal isn’t so sure if he still needs notebooks, but you’ll find his musings on the topic quite hilarious! The humble reporter’s notebook, slim enough to slide into a back pocket, used to be my best friend. My partner in crime. My lover. OK, maybe not my lover. That … Continue reading “Who Needs a Ratty Old Notebook?”
What a cool thing: The Exercise Book Archive is a website that is preserving exercise books, otherwise known as children’s school notebooks, from around the world and over hundreds of years! You can click on each notebook and see larger images of the cover and interior. Here’s the pink one from 1980s China in the … Continue reading The Exercise Book Archive
Here’s some tips from a few artists about how to get yourself going with a sketchbooking (or notebooking) habit: Indian artists offer tips on how to start sketchbooking in 2020. I feel like my own sketchbook has been rather stagnant lately so I need to take some of these insights to heart! Mumbai-based artist Sameer … Continue reading How To Start Sketchbooking
What notebooks would you pack for a year-long road trip? Gary is back home now, I think, but he spent a year traveling around the USA in a camper van and the photos below show the notebooks he brought with him: What does a stationery fanatic and writer do to haul the necessary tools and … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Gary Varner