What is a barrister’s notebook? That is what I found myself wondering when I recently read a PD James mystery set in the colorfully traditional world of the London criminal court system. (See Crown Court, Old Bailey and Inns of Court for more background.) I noticed a mention of a certain type of blue notebook used by barristers to keep records about their cases. Notebooks in traditional formats that are specific to certain professions always fascinate me, so I had to learn more!

As an introduction, here’s a passage from a memoir of a law student who participated in a special program that allowed her to spend a year working with and learning from a barrister:

At 4 Pump Court, I also participated in a few hearings and meetings with Tony Temple QC, a former head of Chambers and tenacious advocate. His first words of advice to me before
departing for an arbitration at which I was to merely observe, was to go and get my own â€œblue bookâ€ from the stationary cupboard. A â€œblue bookâ€ is a unique feature of barristers, consisting of lined or blank sheets bound in a stiff, light blue cover. It resembled a North American childâ€™s school notebook, yet no barrister worth his or her salt was ever seen without one. He turned to me and said: â€œLisa, even if you are not important at a hearing, you should always look as though you areâ€. The blue book remained at my side for the rest of my year.
From “It is a Long Way to Middle Temple or How I spent my year in London” By Lisa Tomas, Fox Scholar 2002-3

Further online research led to these images of notebooks referred to either as barrister’s notebooks or counsel’s notebooks:

barrister's notebook or counsel's notebook — Counsel’s notebook from Octopus Office Products, UK

The barrister’s notebooks above all seem to be A4 sized, staple bound with 96 pages. They are usually sold in packs of 5 or 10, with a per-book cost of a couple of dollars or less, though the Irish red/white/blue ones seem to be â‚¬4 each. As Lisa Tomas notes, they are very similar to the exercise books I remember using in school, which you can still buy in various incarnations, though those were usually smaller at 7 x 8.5″. I also noticed a hardcover barrister’s notebook which is actually made by the LogBookStore division of Book Factory, whose pocket size field notebooks I reviewed years ago:

hardcover barrister's notebook — Barrister’s notebook from LogBookStore

The LogBookStore page offers quite a few options for different page layouts. Since they are US-based, I couldn’t help wondering if lawyers in the US also use these, or if they sell them all overseas.

I could see the staple-bound barrister’s notebooks like these being quite handy for people who like to keep a separate notebook for each project. The A4 size is good for when you want to tuck in meeting handouts (even if it’s not an exact match for those of us used to US paper size standards). And those Irish ones in particular have a very cool retro look! I’m going to be in Dublin in a few weeks and may have to look for office supply shops near the courthouses…

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Beechmore Books Notebook Review and Giveaway

March 6, 2019 N S 7 Comments

I had not heard of Beechmore Books notebooks until the company contacted me to offer a sample. The creator, Sam Horbye, named the company after the street he grew up on in London, and says:

I created Beechmore Books because I wanted a notebook that had the elegance of a Smythson, the every-day use style of a Moleskine but with paper that was thick and avoided bleed-through (ours is 120 gsm).

That all sounded pretty good to me! And I will say right up front that he delivers on this promise, at a price you would not expect.

Beechmore Books Notebook Exterior and Packaging

The Beechmore Books notebook arrives in a shrinkwrapped protective box. It’s not a super fancy box, but it does make it a little more gifty. When I removed the notebook from the packaging, I thought, oh, it’s leather! Upon closer inspection, I realized that. like most notebooks these days, the cover is actually a faux leather, but the texture and rich brown color are very nice, more realistic than most.

This is an A5 size, approximately 5.75 x 8.25″, and .75″ thick. There is a removable paper band with the brand name. The logo is also crisply stamped on the back cover. The construction of this notebook is great– symmetrical edges, nothing out of square, everything tight and neat. There is some cover overhang but it’s well-proportioned and the corners are rounded just right. It definitely gives the first impression of a higher quality notebook.

Beechmore Books Notebook Interior

Inside the notebook, there is a postcard with a Ray Bradbury quote and contact information. The brand logo appears again on the inside front cover, but otherwise the endpapers are totally plain. Mine had a few specs of ink– I’m not sure if I did that myself without noticing, or if something smeared during the manufacturing process– the specs seem to align with the line spacing on the pages. If it is a manufacturing defect, it is a very minor one, and the only one I could detect in this notebook.

beechmore books notebook journal inside front cover

beechmore books notebook inside front cover — You may not even be able to see the specks

There is a ribbon marker that matches the cover and the back has an expanding pocket. The notebook opens flat, and inside you find 160 pages of 120 GSM creamy paper with wide-spaced (8mm) lines, with slightly larger spaces at the top and bottom.

beechmore books notebook opens flat lined pages

Beechmore Books Pen Tests

The paper quality is superb. When I first touched it, I thought, ooh, smooth and thick. When I first wrote a few notes on it with a gel ink pen, it felt great. And when I started testing all my fountain pens, I thought “hallelujah!” For the most part, it passed my tests with flying colors. Fountain pens did not bleed through at all, with the slight exception of a vintage Waterman with a flexible nib where I was applying a fair amount of pressure. (Also, that nib is a bit crooked and scratchy, so it may tear at the paper fibers a bit more than most.) My only other quibbles were that the Bleu Nuit ink seemed to feather slightly, and Apache Sunset had a somewhat blotchy look. Otherwise, only my wettest markers bled, and show-through was minimal. It is one of the most fountain pen friendly notebooks I have reviewed.

beechmore books notebook fountain pen tests — Pen tests front of page

beechmore books fountain pen tests — Pen tests back of page

Conclusion

This is a GREAT notebook. I don’t usually use lined journals in this size myself, but if it was pocket size and dotted or plain or squared paper, it would be my next daily carry. Beechmore notebooks were recently sold out in most formats, so I guess they are off to a great start, and I hope their product line will expand to include a pocket size version. As of this writing, all Beechmore notebooks are back in stock at Amazon in both dotted and lined versions, in black and brown faux leather, and also in a cork covered version.

As for the price, first let’s note the competition: A classic Moleskine of this size has a list price of $19.95 and terrible paper. An A5 Rhodia Webnotebook is usually $19.95 and up, with good paper but a less elegant exterior. A Smythson notebook has a real leather cover and thin fountain pen friendly paper, but prices start at $75 for a small pocket size notebook. The Beechmore Books A5 notebook is $15.95 on Amazon, a great value for a notebook of this size and quality. (If you are in the UK, you can order directly from Beechmore’s website at Â£12 per notebook, which includes free shipping.)

And courtesy of the folks at Beechmore, you can enter to win a notebook in the color and page format of your choice. Please note that the prize can only be shipped to North America, UK or the EU. One winner will be randomly selected from entries received in any of these ways:

On Twitter, tweet something containing â€œBeechmore Books Notebook @NotebookStoriesâ€, and follow @NotebookStories .

On Facebook, â€œlikeâ€ the Notebook Stories page and post something containing the words â€œBeechmore Books Notebookâ€ on the Notebook Stories page.

On your blog, post something containing the words â€œBeechmore Books Notebookâ€ and â€œNotebook Storiesâ€ and link back to this post, also leaving a comment below with the link in case the trackback doesnâ€™t work.

On Instagram, follow @Notebook.Stories and comment on my Beechmore Books post, tagging a friend and adding a hashtag of your favorite adjective describing the Beechmore Books notebook. (Example: “@myfriendsally #fountainpenfriendly”)

The deadline for entry is Friday March 15, 2019 at 11:59PM, EST. Good luck everyone!

I received a free sample of this notebook to review but no other compensation. All opinions are my own.

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Marie Kondo and Tidying Up Notebooks

March 5, 2019 Nifty Notebook 4 Comments

Is tidying up notebooks possible for us notebook addicts? I’ve been a tidy person who folds her t-shirts precisely and stores them vertically in drawers since long before Marie Kondo‘s “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” hit the bestseller lists. Because I’ve lived in some very tiny New York apartments, I’ve always been pretty good about clearing out clutter, even if I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to CDs, books, and of course notebooks.

This was a messy moment in my notebook storage history!

Now that Marie Kondo has her own TV show, everyone seems to be talking about her rules for tidying, and she’s had to clarify some of her advice. At one point, it was rumored that she had said you shouldn’t have more than 30 books and the internet pretty much erupted with people saying “oh hell no!” Kondo has since clarified that she doesn’t suggest any particular numerical limit, as long as your books all “spark joy.”

I haven’t read Kondo’s book, but I did watch a couple of episodes of her TV series. They made me realize that I’ve already been living another aspect of her method without even knowing it. When you go through her program of tidying up, you’re supposed to touch all your things, and decide whether you feel that spark of joy from them. You’re also supposed to thank them for their service. You keep the ones that spark joy, and get rid of the rest.

I already do this with my notebooks all the time. I am always sorting through my notebooks. Sometimes I’m putting away ones I’ve just reviewed and I use it as a chance to make room in one of my storage boxes. I find myself handling the various piles of notebooks, turning notebooks over in my hands, sorting them, appreciating their various qualities, and organizing them by size and type. I don’t actually thank them for serving me, but I contemplate them with appreciation, and most of them do spark joy.

Sometimes I come across ones that don’t spark joy and I set them aside to give away or donate. I have a huge collection of notebooks and sometimes I feel like it’s a bit much, but on the whole, I keep it under control and organized and relatively neat. I don’t let my notebooks become a source of stress rather than pleasure. Tidying notebooks is part of the way I enjoy them.

Lots of old notebooks, since reorganized.

So here’s my KonMari-inspired tidying method specifically for notebooks:

Take out all your notebooks from all the various places you store them and put them all together in one room.

Pick each one up, see if it sparks joy. Your notebooks may bring up various feelings as you do this:

Feeling happy or sad about past events recorded in a journal
Feelings of anxiety about not being creative enough
Feeling like a certain type of notebook is “too nice” to use
Thinking about why you used to use a certain type of notebook but have now switched to another

This is all good stuff to ponder, and might help you decide how you want to approach your notebook usage and buying in the future. And it may help you realize that some of your notebooks aren’t helping you achieve your goals. If you have notebooks that don’t spark joy, thank them and set them aside for disposal. You may find that a local school teacher is thrilled to get a donation of notebooks.

For the notebooks that do spark joy, group them by whether they are used or unused. Then group them by size. For used notebooks, you might also want to organize them by date. Try to find boxes you can store each size in efficiently. Simple cardboard shoeboxes work very nicely for pocket size notebooks. It’s better to use small boxes that won’t get too heavy. I have some clear plastic boxes that were meant to store sweaters, but they work nicely for pocket notebooks because I can easily see what’s there, and read the dates I’ve written on the edges. (It’s hard to find good plastic boxes with straight sides and the right dimensions. Mine are old and don’t seem to be sold anywhere nowadays, but these look pretty good.)

My completed journals and sketchbooks since about 2001.

You could also store notebooks on shelves like books. Regular bookshelves are too deep for pocket notebooks, but if you have old racks used for CDs or DVDs, they might work for holding smaller notebooks. Vertical storage is much better than piles, so you can see each notebook without having to dig around because every layer of notebooks hides more underneath.

In my home right now, I have the two plastic boxes of completed notebooks and sketchbooks above, a couple of cardboard boxes of notebooks that are in my “to-be-reviewed” queue, a box of notebooks to be given away or donated, a plastic under-the-bed box with spare to-be-used notebooks, and a handful of other in-progress notebooks around my desk. I also have quite a few shoeboxes full of my lifelong notebook collection– childhood notebooks, college sketchbooks, pre-2001 journals, more spare notebooks and other goodies I’ve written about on this site. These are all in a storage unit and I look forward to regaining access to them someday soon!

I’d love to hear from readers about how you organize and store your notebooks, especially if you’ve tried Marie Kondo’s tidying plan! Even if every notebook you touch sparks joy, the KonMari method is probably a good way to get rid of other stuff so you’ll have room for more notebooks!

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Sketchbook Art in NYC

March 4, 2019 Nifty Notebook Leave a comment

There was an exhibition of sketchbook art in Long Island City, NY recently. I had hoped to see it in person but the opening weekend there was supposed to be a big snowstorm so I was avoiding travel into the city. Then when I tried to go the next weekend, there was some sort of snafu and no one was there to let us in… it’s a shame, as I really would have loved to see these gorgeous sketchbooks up close!

About the show, which ran from January 19 to February 8, 2019:

Artist Dina Brodsky … has kept a sketchbook since she was 18 years old. What was first a collection of â€œscattered thoughts and scribblesâ€ has transitioned into thoughtful spreads that combine detailed drawings with handwritten text.

In addition to being an artist, Brodsky is also a curator-in-residence at Sugarlift in Long Island City, New York. There, sheâ€™s organized an exhibition called Sketchbook Vol 1. The show offers visitors a rare chance to flip through the books of fine artists to see the place where their ideas come to life. The inner working of the creative process is demystified as these art objects highlight how these people think and how they experience the world around them.

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Notebook Addict of the Week: Mary

March 1, 2019 Nifty Notebook 2 Comments

This week’s notebook addict sent the photos and comments below about her beautiful and colorful notebooks:

I can’t exist without writing, painting and making art in my notebooks. I live in the Texas panhandle area. There just isn’t much to do here at all except watch sunsets and moonrise and hear the coyotes howl and of course write and paint.

I frequent coffee shops to write in one of my many notebooks and I take about 7 different ones in this open bag purse, one for poetry, one for my daily life record, one for painting, one for my coffee shop stories, etc. I can’t be without them cause you never know what needs to be recorded.

A daily carry of seven notebooks, in their own dedicated bag! That is a real commitment to notebooking! Thank you for sharing your notebook addiction, Mary!

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Links I Liked

February 28, 2019 N S 1 Comment

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 NotebooksÂ 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 Features at The Gadgeteer

EDC: Pattern Story Notebook Through the Leaves at NotesinaBook

Yamamoto Ro-Biki Reticle Notebook Review at The Pen Addict

My Brief Career in the Notebook Business at WVXU.org Cincinnati Public Radio

These are the Best Notebooks for Bullet Journaling at Refinery29

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Notebooks I’m Using Now: February 2019

February 27, 2019 N S 3 Comments

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 posts, my 2018 Nolty diary was replaced with a 2019 Nolty Gold, the upgraded version with a leather cover. I’m enjoying using it, but trying to decide if the extra cost is worth it. I do love the leather and the additional supplemental booklet, but it’s more than double the price of the regular Nolty, and I am thinking I might go back to the plastic cover for 2020. We’ll see…

My catch-all journal/jotter/commonplace book is back to being a squared hardcover Moleskine from my stash of early 2000’s stock. I like trying other things in between but I’m always happy to come back to these.

My sketchbook is a Moleskine. Back in October, I’d been thinking I would try using a Bindewerk linen journal with plain pages for sketching, but I guess I forgot about that intention and just grabbed a Moleskine. I haven’t been drawing as much lately so it will take me a while to finish this one.

I keep intending to work some other brands into my daily usage (see this post for Moleskine alternatives I’ve used in the past) so we’ll what the next few months bring!

Other Frequently or Occasionally Used Notebooks

Frequently used notebooks: Decomposition Book, Moleskine Watercolor, Nolty

I’m also trying to finish a Moleskine Watercolor sketchbook that I’ve been using on and off for several years. A Pentalic watercolor sketchbook is also in progress, as I seem to find myself alternating between the two. (See review comparing watercolor sketchbooks)

The Michael Roger Decomposition book is still the repository of lots of home renovation notes. Including the “I’m trying to understand what you mean when you tell me my whole house is out of square” drawings. [Sigh.]

I bought an extra 2019 Nolty diary (regular, not gold) in the smaller size that fits in a passport Travelers Notebook. I haven’t put it in the TN, but instead I’ve been using it as a sort of visual commonplace book, pasting in random images that appeal to me, one per week.

I also occasionally use an old Hobonichi Techo for handwriting practice with fountain pens.

I have a few other notebooks that are incomplete but not active. I’m not sure if I should convert them to other purposes just to use them up, so for the moment, they’ll just kind of live in a limbo pile. This includes a couple of HandBook Artist Journals and a Conceptum notebook.

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The Bullet Journal Trend

February 26, 2019 Nifty Notebook 4 Comments

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 be very minimal). You can read more about it here. In the last couple of years, Bullet Journal images are all over Instagram and it seems like every notebook listed on Amazon has to include “great for Bullet Journal” in its description.

Bullet Journals are not the first (or last) trend or fad in the notebook world. Moleskine notebooks seemed to explode in popularity in the mid-2000’s and early teens. The Travelers Notebook (from Midori and other imitators) is another notebook format that seems to have gained a huge following. But here’s something that puts these trends in perspective:

Google Trends comparison of Moleskine, Bullet Journal and Travelers Notebook

This looks at web search trends 2004 to date, in the US. (The chart looks pretty much the same for worldwide.) I was surprised at how much bigger the spikes are for the Bullet Journal trend. In part, I’m sure that is because it is A) a somewhat cryptic term if you haven’t heard of it; B) a system that you have to learn ; and C) not tied to any one brand or format of notebook.

It is interesting to switch the results to focus on Google Shopping searches:

Google Trends Bullet Journal Moleskine Travelers Notebook

Here the data only goes back to 2008, but you can see how big Moleskine was a decade ago, more recently dwindling to a fraction of the shopping searches it used to have. This may also be due to familiarity– people know they can get them in big-box chain stores and on Amazon and don’t feel the need to shop around online as much as they used to. Although there is a Leuchtturm notebook co-branded with Bullet Journal, a “bullet journal” is more something you create than something you buy or shop for. The Travelers Notebook line here shows that they are a much more niche product in the wide world of online shopping searches, even if they have a big mindshare in the notebook/pen/journaling world.

Anyway, my inner statistics geek was quite fascinated by this– as someone who has been interested in notebooks for almost 50 years, the internet and social media have been a gratifying source of new information and like-minded community. The rise of Moleskine seemed to bring notebook addiction out into the open in a whole new way, but Bullet Journaling and its Instagram-friendliness have taken it to another level! Of course, it’s all relative:

We notebook-lovers and bullet-journalers are still a small group of holdouts vs. digital domination!

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Moleskine Zoom Notebooks

February 25, 2019 N S 4 Comments

Several years ago, while browsing on eBay, I came across a series of very unusual Moleskine notebooks that I’d never seen: Moleskine Zoom. I purchased two batches of these over the last few years, both times from international sellers where shipping was fairly expensive. (I “solved” that problem by making offers for combined bulk purchases, thus making the per-notebook shipping cost a little more reasonable!)

How could I not fall in love with these:

moleskine zoom notebooks - 4 — Moleskine Zoom notebooks Cameroon and Australia

moleskine zoom notebooks - 3 — Moleskine Zoom notebooks Iran and Antarctica

moleskine zoom notebooks - 5 — Moleskine Zoom Notebooks Polynesia and Morocco

The covers are a smooth material printed with zoomed in photographs of landscapes around the world. Seen all together, they have a lovely color palette, with elastic closures that match the hues of each notebook.

So what’s the story behind the Moleskine Zoom notebook series? There is not much information online about them, except for a 2007 post on Moleskinerie:

Apparently thereâ€™s a series of Moleskine called “Zoom”.
:::calling Milan:::
[Link to Moleskiner.cn, which is no longer active]
Update 4.18.07:
Our friend Silvia Trenta at Moleskine.com in Milan says this product was a special series produced in 2001.

moleskine zoom notebooks - 1 — Moleskine Zoom squared notebooks

moleskine zoom notebooks - 2 — Moleskine Zoom squared notebooks

moleskine zoom notebooks - 6 — Moleskine Zoom notebook back cover

The packaging is all in Italian, and doesn’t offer much info: “New albums and notebooks for photographs and collages, notes and drawings covered by the surface of the planet. Zoomed images of Antarctica, Australia, Cameroon, Iran, Morocco, and Polynesia.” There is an extra info sheet inside printed with color images on the back– these same sheets were cut up and glued onto on the translucent belly bands, as you can see when you look at the back.

moleskine zoom notebooks - 11 — Front of Moleskine Zoom info sheet

moleskine zoom notebooks pen test - 1 — Back of Moleskine Zoom info sheet

moleskine zoom notebooks pen test - 2 — Front of Moleskine Zoom belly band

moleskine zoom notebooks pen test - 3 — Back of Moleskine Zoom bellyband

Modo e Modo appear to have produced pocket size Moleskine Zoom notebooks in ruled, squared, plain and sketchbook versions, as well as larger photo albums with white or black heavy paper and pockets for negatives. I’ve never seen the photo albums listed on eBay or anywhere else.

I love the colors and patterns. I love the evocation of some of the earth’s more striking features. I love the global wanderlust the images inspire. These notebooks kind of encapsulate everything that was cool about Moleskine’s mythology back then, whether it was marketing hype or not. To me, this is the kind of limited edition Moleskine should be doing, not goofy collaborations with Coca Cola or Pokemon.

What I also love about Moleskines of that era is the way they were constructed. Hardly any cover overhang. Precisely folded corners. Everything nice and square. Good quality control. Other than the covers, coordinating elastic bands and white ribbon markers, these notebooks are exactly the same as other Moleskines except for one small detail: the expanding back pockets seem to have paper sides rather than the contrasting fabric sides other Moleskines have.

moleskine zoom notebooks - 7 — Moleskine Zoom shown with regular Moleskine pocket notebook

moleskine zoom notebooks - 9 — Moleskine Zoom compared to regular Moleskine notebook

moleskine zoom notebooks - 12 — Moleskine Zoom back pocket paper sides

moleskine zoom notebooks - 13 — Regular Moleskine pocket with cloth sides

Like all other Moleskines, these don’t have the best paper– it is somewhat better than what they seem to be using now in the late 2010s, and as always, it’s okay with fine gel ink pens, but many fountain pens and other wet pens bleed through in spots. Show through is about average. I generally use pens that don’t bleed, so the paper is something I’ve always been willing to accept in exchange for the precise construction of these early Moleskines, but the more I’ve come to enjoy fountain pens, the more it makes me sad.

moleskine zoom notebooks pen test - 4 — Moleskine Zoom notebook pen tests front of page

moleskine zoom notebooks pen test - 5 — Moleskine Zoom notebook pen tests back of page

The first set of Moleskine Zoom notebooks I bought were all sketchbooks. I tucked them away and couldn’t bring myself to use one. Now that I also have more than a full set of squared notebooks, and almost a full set of plain notebooks, I’ll probably use a few for daily carry sometime soon. The rest will be saved for some future date, when I’ve run out of all the other Moleskines in my collection that seem less special.

There are still a some of these notebooks for sale on eBay as of this writing– search “Moleskine Zoom” and you’ll find listings from an Australian seller called Toysorigin, and an Italian seller called Mecspecthreepwood. Try just viewing those sellers’ listings even if the title search doesn’t work. Happy hunting!

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Notebook Addict of the Week: Arellano81366

February 22, 2019 Nifty Notebook 3 Comments

This week’s addict has quite a nice pile of spare notebooks and has set himself a goal that many of us probably share:

My Goal For 2019: Do Not Buy More Notebooks & Use The Ones That I Already Own

See original post and comments on Reddit.

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