Notebook Stories

Moleskine has been introducing so many new products lately, they’re hard to keep up with. But here’s one I had to try:   This 3-piece set includes a 2-pocket envelope, a 2012 week-to-page planner, and an undated day-per-page notebook. First of all, I love the colors. The neutral brown and grey shades are very attractive [...]

We live in a digital age, yet sales of good old fashioned paper are way up. Why? An article in the Guardian provides quite a good answer: We all love stationery (some more moderately and tastefully than others). But why? It seems to me to offer two great and seductive promises. The first is that [...]

I was browsing around on Flickr and found this image that mentioned that it was the person’s first Moleskine page.  It made me wonder what mine was, so I dug around in my boxes of notebooks to find it… I started my first Moleskine sketchbook sometime in 2001, I think. The very first page is [...]

This week’s addict is Heather at A Penchant for Paper. I really enjoyed her post about her system of using multiple notebooks, including the ones below: “I have multiple notebooks, multiple pens and pencils, and multiple pen cases, all of them equally stuffed full, and I still find myself acquiring more, although not quite as [...]

Here’s someone who has attempted to tackle the eternal question of why this particular brand of notebooks has become so popular: What is So Great About Moleskin Notebooks? 8 Reasons the Moleskin Notebook is So Appealing. Unfortunately, his reason #1 is the not-really-true one about them being used by Hemingway and VanGogh. But here’s some [...]

This week’s addict posted the image below on Flickr: A nice collection, with Rite in the Rain, Moleskine (cahiers and regular), Rhodia, Paperblanks and Miquelrius. He’s also written about his notebook choices here. See the original image and comments at Notebooks – never enough.

So cool, I love this composite image of 704 Moleskine pages from Kolby Kirk, aka The Hike Guy. I’ve mentioned him on this blog before, but I think this is my favorite yet!   Read all about the journals and see more of Kolby’s excellent sketches at My Pacific Crest Trail Moleskine Journals | The [...]

This week’s addict was found on Flickr here. I love this big stack of notebooks, all dated on the edge.

Banditapple was launched a couple of years ago as a new notebook manufacturer focused on providing a quality handmade notebook at very affordable prices. I’d read reviews of them on other blogs and was thrilled when they contacted me to offer some samples for review. The notebooks are similar to the Moleskine Cahiers or Field [...]

I love this collection of pages, from a post on Behyped:     The rest of the post is an appreciation of what Moleskine gets right: I got sucked in. I’m a fool for good marketing, and Molsekine have done it exceptionally well, they are masters at it. They got me fair and square. I [...]