Notebook Stories

Quite a while back, I posted a link to a snazzy looking diary by Typotheque. Little did I know that almost two years later, I’d be sent a sample to review!  Seeing this year’s version in person did not disappoint. Here it is: I love the nice clean design, with all its sharp lines and [...]

A fun article in this past weekend’s New York Times: Calendar Wars Pit Electronics Against Paper. A few quotes from paper fans: “I’ve got an iPad, an iPod, I’m on Twitter and Facebook and I’m talking on my BlackBerry now,” said Nelson George, a cultural critic, filmmaker and producer, in a phone interview. “But that’s [...]

Still trying to decide on a 2011 planner? Check out this post for some ideas (though some may only be available in the Philippines): No Frills vs. The Chichi: The Battle of Buying Your 2011 Planner @ ClickTheCity.com Metro.

Looks like Moleskine’s 2012 calendars are starting to appear on Amazon.com. Only 3 listings so far, all available as of April 2011: “Moleskine 2012 12 Month Professional Weekly Planner Vertical Black Hard Cover XLG” “Moleskine 2012 12 Month Cahier Weekly Planner Ginger Pocket” “Moleskine 2012 12 Month Cahier Weekly Planner Wheat Pocket” Ginger and wheat– [...]

I spotted this in Manhattan: Recognize that planner? Looks like a Moleskine to me!

I enjoyed this article in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine: The Demise of Datebooks, by Virginia Heffernan. I miss my Filofax datebook, with its six rings and dark red leather binder. I had a green one first, with a calendar that cast each week across two cream-colored pages. Back then, at age 30, I was [...]

A reader named Rebecca tipped me off to this cool-looking pocket calendar from Typotheque: The design is so clean and modern, and it has a nice binding that opens very flat. There are still a few left at the webstore, priced at €15.00. Thanks for the tip, Rebecca!

The Moleskine Color-a-Month 2010 Daily Planner has turned a lot of heads this year– it’s certainly the most colorful and unusual product Moleskine has introduced. But what’s inside that chunky rainbow package? Let’s take a look! The planner is the size of a pocket Moleskine notebook, but at 2 1/8 inches, it’s about 4 times [...]

I’ve been mulling over the news and reactions to Moleskine’s latest product announcements. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall at their product development meetings, as I think some of their decisions are a bit … odd. I started to feel this way several months ago, when the Color-a-Month Planner and [...]

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 [...]