Notebook Stories

I haven’t updated my “using now” photo in a while– the photo that’s been there was of a Piccadilly graph notebook. After that, I went through a Moleskine graph notebook within a couple of months– this was one of the ones I got for 50 cents and it definitely had some quality issues– some of [...]

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The maker of these journals contacted me, and I thought they looked like a nice gift idea: Between Me And You Keepsake Journals.

The journals are meant to be given to a loved one, and each contains blank space as well as a number of questions designed to prompt recollections about the relationship. The idea is [...]

Here’s a nice way to use notebooks, from Gretchen Rubin at The Happiness Project:
Studies show that thinking back on happy times elevates mood, and observing and preserving memories is one of the most satisfying ways of bringing order to life.
My mother started a memory-keeping tradition a few years ago that has proved to be a [...]

This is the first Filofax I ever bought, sometime in the early 1990s. I had not been out of college long and Filofaxes still seemed like the kind of expensive yuppie status symbol that I’d scoffed at… but then I got a job in a store that sold them, and I discovered that this pocket [...]

Do you go through notebooks faster when you’re living through difficult, stressful times? I know I do. I just went through about a quarter of my current notebook in less than a week due to a very sad event. And I know that in other times, I’ve always tended to write more journal entries when [...]

A couple months ago I posted about the artist David Fullarton and wondered where I could get a notebook like the one he used for his work. Well, it turns out I had only to look in my own collection! The unusual gridded pages appearing in Fullarton’s artwork come from an engineer’s field book like [...]

WE HAVE WINNERS!! @julia_eff @juliemorrison @tom_s252 have each won a @Vickerey notebook. Thank you to all who entered! #
Sorry, typo in last message, it's @juliermorrison who is a winner! #
@tom_s252 @juliermorrison You should be able to DM me now, thanks! in reply to tom_s252 #
@ecram Don't worry, there will be more contests in the future, [...]

WE HAVE WINNERS!! @julia_eff @juliemorrison @tom_s252 have each won a @Vickerey notebook. Thank you to all who entered! #
Sorry, typo in last message, it's @juliermorrison who is a winner! #
@tom_s252 @juliermorrison You should be able to DM me now, thanks! in reply to tom_s252 #
@ecram Don't worry, there will be more contests in the future, [...]

A thought-provoking quote from Mark Twain:
It is a troublesome thing for a lazy man to take notes, so I used to try in my young days to pack my impressions in my head. But that can’t be done satisfactorily, so I went from that to another stage– that of making notes in a note-book. But [...]