Notebook Addict of the Week: David Garrett

This week’s addict blogs at Seize the Dave, where he shows off the nice row of Moleskine Cahiers (and an unidentified wire-o bound notebook) below.   Read more about his experience using fountain pens in these notebooks at seize the dave: paper review: moleskine cahier.

One Notebook or Many?

Steve at Recording Thoughts has written a marathon series on the question “One Notebook or Many?” Now, I suppose you could argue that this isn’t even a question, as you probably wouldn’t be reading this blog if “many” notebooks wasn’t your idea of a good thing! But the issue here is whether to capture all [...]

Diaries in the WSJ

Some diaries featured in today’s Wall Street Journal…

Handwritten

If you happen to be heading down under any time soon, there is an exhibition at the National Library of Australia in Canberra that you’ll definitely want to check out called “Handwritten.” It includes letters, diaries and other handwritten documents from the likes of Einstein, Beethoven, Galileo and more contemporary, Australian people like Nick Cave, [...]

Moleskine Monday: Nicoz’s Illustrated Diary

Another amazing example of an illustrated Moleskine journal:   See more at One year moleskine #12 | nicoz goes west.

Notebooks that Lead Down Memory Lane

Here’s something that will ring a bell for many of you, as it did for me. It’s amazing how you can lose track of your tidying up when you get lost in the memories that old notebooks conjure up! So here it is another new year, and here I am once again, picking up and [...]

Notebooks All Around: A Look at (Some of) My Collection

Today I thought I’d just share some photos of various parts of my notebook collection and where they are scattered around my apartment: Below is a corner of my office where I was going through boxes of notebooks and had stashed some used ones that needed to be put away. There are a few months [...]

A Public Notebook?

I recently came across an article in which the writer celebrates keeping a notebook. But there was one passage that really surprised me: Another thing that makes my notebook unique and interesting is the open access to its pages. While diaries are revered as the fiefdom of one man’s innermost thoughts and deep, dark secrets, [...]

Moleskine Monday: A Japanese Album Travel Scrapbook

This is a great example of a Moleskine Japanese Album used as a travel journal: See more photos at AninhadaBest’s photostream on Flickr.

Notebook Addict of the Week: Dillon

Dillon sent me a whole bunch of photos of his collection… actually, half his collection, since the rest is being stored at home while he’s studying abroad for a year. I’m impressed that he brought so many with him! In the first picture, the bottom row is empty notebooks, and the top are notebooks that [...]