I may tend to use a lot of Moleskines and similar pocket hardcover notebooks, but I’m still a sucker for a nice wire-o binding on a notebook, especially one with some interesting design details. I was very happy when Goldspot Pens gave me the opportunity to review a free sample of the Nebula Casual Note, … Continue reading Nebula Casual Note Review
I’ve almost always had a sharp disparity between my preferred notebooks for personal use and my preferred work notebooks. My personal notebooks are always pocket sized, with plain, dotted, or grid pages, usually hardcover. But my work notebooks are usually none of those things. I’ve written about some of my work notebooks before. In my … Continue reading My Latest Work Notebooks
A good friend of mine has become a big fountain pen fan, and told me she’s been using the Exceed notebook from Walmart. She said it was a fountain pen friendly notebook at a bargain price, so of course I was intrigued! She was kind enough to send me two of them as a gift, … Continue reading Exceed Notebook Review
I spotted the Tru Red notebook on one of my periodic trips to Staples. This is a house brand for them, manufactured in Turkey, with a variety of notebook styles, page formats and sizes available. When I saw that they had pocket size notebooks with dot grid and squared pages available, I decided to add … Continue reading Tru Red Notebook Review
Here’s another shoebox tour! This box of notebooks, one of the many that hold my collection, contains lined and dot-grid notebooks that I may find a use for someday, or at least like enough to want to keep. As with the previous shoebox tour, I first just looked at the box without taking any of … Continue reading Shoebox Tour: A Box of Dot-Grid and Lined Notebooks
I recently reviewed the excellent pocket notebook from Pebble Stationery. Now they are back with a new Kickstarter project for a larger A5 size notebook, in the same design with Tomoe River paper, which I’m sure will be a popular item! The campaign runs for just 2 weeks, from June 25th to July 9th. Deliveries … Continue reading New A5 Notebook from Pebble Stationery
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 … Continue reading Beechmore Books Notebook Review and Giveaway
It’s been quite a while since I’ve reviewed any notebooks from Leuchtturm… but thanks to the good people at Pen Chalet, I’ve got some more recent samples to take a look at! Leuchtturm has become a widely available brand in the US, and like Moleskine, they seem to have expanded their product line by introducing … Continue reading Review & Giveaway: Leuchtturm Notebooks from Pen Chalet
It’s fun to review things that stretch the boundaries of “notebook” a bit. The Notez notebook and Dayz planner certainly do that! They are made by an Austrian company called Less Thingz, who were kind enough to send me these samples. At a glance, you can see that these have a unique format. The outside … Continue reading Review & Giveaway: Notez and Dayz by Less Thingz
Looks like Moleskine is introducing some interesting new items this spring. If you search on Amazon by pub date, you’ll see all the 2014 and 2015 planners, including something called a Dashboard Planner. Moleskine 2015 Dashboard Planner, Vertical, 12 Month, Large, Black, Hard Cover (5 x 8.25) They are also launching something I’ve long wanted … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Coming This Spring