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 [...]

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!

I recently came across this interesting interview. with a therapist who talks a lot about dream analysis. Here’s my favorite part:
“Dream recall improves if you write them down in the morning. I have been keeping track of my dreams for 25 years and have filled dozens of notebooks.”
I have an old 2001 Moleskine Daily Planner [...]

Here’s something for everyone whose New Year’s Resolution is to start keeping a diary! A few months ago, I was sent a free sample of an interesting journal called Keel’s Simple Diary. It’s quite different from most of the items I’ve reviewed. It’s a sort of hybrid, I guess– perhaps more of a creativity prod [...]

The Elle website features eleven favorite notebooks (with a wee mention of a review by yours truly), including Moleskine, Smythson, the Shopsin Diary, and the oh-so-high-school Trapper Keeper– who knew it’s been revived as a trendy accessory!

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 as [...]

From The Unfolding Moment, this is a lovely post about the ups and downs of keeping a journal, and now it feels to go back and re-read old journals: Reflection: Leave the Roots On.
Every once in a while, I become reacquainted with old notebooks.
My life is flush with them: sketchbooks and art journals, commonplace books [...]

I recently noticed this story about Siegfried Sassoon’s notebooks being archived at Cambridge University. Sassoon was a poet who refused to return to fight after being wounded in World War I. (Read Pat Barker’s novel Regeneration for an interesting perspective on his story.) The archive contains, among other things “Sassoon’s journals [and]  pocket notebooks compiled [...]

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 [...]

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 Page-a-Day [...]