Notebook Addict of the Week: Windi

This week’s addict emailed me a link to her Tumblr site, where she’s posted all these photos of a wonderfully colorful collection. In addition to these ones on Tumblr, there are a few more recent purchases here: Thanks for sharing your addiction, Windi! Read more at I Don’t Want to Be Told to Grow Up [...]

Moleskine Monday: Comfortable Shoes Studio Journal Flip

I love seeing videos of people flipping through their notebooks, especially colorful art journals like the one below, from Leslie at Comfortble Shoes Studio. Read more at Comfortable Shoes Studio: Journal Flip: Moleskine #3.  

Questions from Readers

Jenny asks “Do you know of any companies that produce notebooks for keeping track of books read? I remember seeing one at some point, but I didn’t need one then As I am now working in a library and reading more, I would like to keep track of what I am reading and whether I [...]

Moleskine Monday: Nicoz’s Illustrated Diary

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

Notebook Addict of the Week: Julie the Gadgeteer

I went through a phase in the late 1990s when my notebook obsession was relatively dormant, because my lust for handheld data receptacles of a certain size and shape had displaced itself onto the Palm Pilot and its various descendents. PDAs were my addiction then: I bought (and resold) about 15 different models over about [...]

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 [...]

Review & Giveaway: Wild & Wolf’s Qwerty Journal and “I Am the Notebook of…”

I spotted Wild & Wolf’s Qwerty line of products in a local store and just loved the idea: notebooks and other products with old style typewriter motifs! I contacted the company and they were kind enough to send me not only a sample Qwerty journal, but another funky notebook as well. Let’s take a look: [...]

Moleskine Monday: Hayes Carll and Optimism

Country singer Hayes Carll talks about how certain kinds of notebooks make you think you’ll fill them with great stuff… sounds like he’s a notebook addict!   Do you keep a journal now? I’m pretty bad about it. I have a certain embarrassment over my own writing. It’s odd, because it’s the thing that no [...]

Notebook Addict of the Week: Millie

Millie sent me a link to this photo of her stash of unused notebooks. She points out that 2 didn’t make it into the photo… and I bet her collection of used notebooks would be pretty impressive too!   Full details on what all these notebooks are at Unused notebook collection. Thanks for sharing, Millie!

From the Mailbag

Catching up on my correspondence again! Allegra Newman writes to tell us about her book, 365 Things to Write About: “[The book] offers exactly 365 people, places, object, and ideas on blank, lined pages where people can write their responses. My writing partner and I created it as a different way to jumpstart our brains [...]