Every once in a while an antique diary catches my eye on eBay. Most of the time I don’t buy them because they are similar to things I already have in my collection. Sometimes they are more tempting but too expensive, usually because the contents might have some historical interest, such as a soldier’s memoirs … Continue reading 1940 Marquette Diary
The chic and stylish Moleskine Diary art of First Lady Patate: Found via the website Auguste et Claire, (in French): To be Moleskine or not to be
I love finding out about notebook brands I’ve never heard of, this time via a fun article from Buzzfeed, by Josephine Wolff. She first talks quite a bit about her notebooking habits: As far back as I can remember, I have been an obsessive keeper and collector of notebooks, devoted to filling them with lists and … Continue reading Josephine Wolff’s Perfect Notebook: Fantasticpaper
This week’s addict is Mary, the blogger at From the Pen Cup. Her website features lots of pen and notebook goodness, including these photos: I started my third Field Notes Storage box this week. That’s a picture of a portion of the first two boxes, crammed with as many completed pocket notebooks as I could … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: From the Pen Cup
Catching up on some articles that caught my eye recently (and not so recently). Product Spotlight: Lamy 2000 4-Color Ballpoint at Gentleman Stationer Notebook Review: Floor 9 Cloth Cover Daily Notebooks at Well-Appointed Desk Kunisawa Pocket Find Notebook Review at Ed Jelley Zig-Zag Buch fur Urban Sketcher at Notizbuchblog.de Nomatic Notebook and Planner Have Useful Added … Continue reading Links I Liked
I realized that my “using now” feature hadn’t been updated in quite a while, since October 2018. I finished all my main notebooks around the end of the year, so my daily carry is completely different. As usual, I have a few other notebooks in progress as well. Daily Carry Notebooks As noted in other … Continue reading Notebooks I’m Using Now: February 2019
I haven’t talked a whole lot about the Bullet Journal trend on this site. If by some chance you found your way to this site but still don’t know was a Bullet Journal is, it is a system of list-making, logging and planning that frequently features elaborately designed and decorated notebook pages (but can also … Continue reading The Bullet Journal Trend
I found this week’s addict on Instagram, where he displays an amazing 38 year loyalty to the Nolty diary. (The original text is in Japanese, but has been auto-translated into English in the image above.) See more at @motohashinobuhiro 5884
I’m very fortunate to have friends in Paris and Amsterdam that I’ve been able to visit a few times. I went in 2014 and bought quite a few notebooks. This past year, I went again, and also included Belgium on my itinerary. I wasn’t expecting to buy as many notebooks this time, but I ended … Continue reading Notebooks from Europe
This will seem familiar to many of us! Idea Notebook No. 1: Discovered in late December with two ideas and one inspirational quote jotted down. See the rest: Notebooks I Abandoned Last Year | The New Yorker