This week’s addict emailed me a link to a post about her notebook addiction, featuring these photos: Believe it or not, this is only my journal collection for the past ten years. My mother has my high school and college journals at home. Basically, my journals are just a week by week account of my … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Jennie
I love dense notebook pages like this one… I’m not sure what the notebook is, but I’m guessing it could be Quo Vadis, based on the page size and perforated corners. Photo by Periwinklekog on Flickr
I forget how I first heard about Rubberband notebooks, but I emailed them a while back and they sent me a great batch of samples to review. Let’s take a look! First, we have this very snazzy planner. It comes in a slipcase with a paper band around it, and inside you get a nice … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Rubberband Notebooks
Senator Bob Graham’s notebooks are in the news again, as he’s published a thriller based on his experiences with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the inquiry into 9/11. You are known to take notes and keep a very strict record of everything you do. Do you still do that? Yes. When did you … Continue reading Senator Bob Graham: Notebooks and a Novel
I was very flattered to receive an email from this week’s addict, as she is a highly-regarded children’s author whose books I was already familiar with– the kind of person I’d usually want to ask about their notebook usage, but be too shy to actually do so! Candice wrote 3 blog posts a few months … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Candice Ransom
Oprah is a journaler! Here’s one from her teen years: See more at Oprah’s Private Journals – Diary Excerpts – Oprah.com. Found via mylittlechickadees.blogspot.com.
This week’s addict emailed me a link to her Flickr photo stream, which includes these photos (and more) of her very large collection of journals. Wow: Here’s what she has to say about them: From the attic to various places in my bedroom: paper as far as the eye can see… I’ve always … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Bisonlady
I spent the last couple of days at the BookExpo convention at the Javits Center in New York. It’s mostly focused on book publishing, but there are always some cool stationery vendors there. I spent some time in the Exaclair booth, where Karen showed me their new items, some of which I hope to review … Continue reading Exaclair Booth at BookExpo
I’m more of a Yankees fan myself, but here’s a neat story about a man who captures moments from Mets games in wonderful watercolor sketches: Turning Woeful Mets Into Works of Art – WSJ.com. Every morning during baseball season around 6:15 a.m., after driving to Midtown from Manalapan, N.J., Petruccio takes a cup of coffee … Continue reading Sketchbooks Full of the Mets
Here’s another entry in the modular notebook field, the X17 Notebook, which was kindly sent to me for review by the German manufacturer. (They also make the X47 notebooks, which are a more upscale version in leather, with a metal rod that holds the inserts, and their format is used in DayRunner’s “Life Tracker” notebooks.) … Continue reading X17 Notebook Review