I’m impressed by Anne at Tagged and Cajoled, who writes about here notebooks in this post. She always knows where to look for things she’s jotted down. I sometimes know but often I might have to search back through several notebooks for something I know I’ve written, but I’m not sure exactly when or where.
I [...]
Welcome to the first edition of the Carnival of Pen, Pencil and Paper!
Some carnivals have roller coasters, fried dough, and oversized stuffed animals as prizes. This carnival offers just as much fun and variety, if you love handmade Japanese paper, fountain pens, Filofaxes, and 15-year old spiral notebooks. Every month, a different blog will host [...]
What would you expect to find in Jack Kerouac’s notebooks? Probably not this:
Jack Kerouac — Mr. On the Road, the King of the Beats, who begat the beatniks who begat the hippies who begat the hipsters — Jack Kerouac, the fountainhead of cool — that Jack Kerouac was obsessed with — guess what. Freedom? Alienation? [...]
Biffybeans has a review of an interesting travel journal.
Although I’m sure this is a great product for some people, I was somewhat turned off by the highly formatted nature of the pages:
Sometimes it’s nice to be prompted to enter certain data, but for the most part, I think I am more of a free-form person, [...]
Here’s someone who is just starting to use a notebook to track food and exercise:
First things first, to find out if I can keep track of my eating and exercising, I have started a food and exercise journal. This is nothing fancy right now, it is just a spiral notebook left over from school. [...]
