This week’s addict is back for a second time in the spotlight. The last time I featured her collection, she was only 14 and might have had the highest notebook count to age ratio of anyone I’ve featured. I think this may still be true! In her own words: I’m Allie, now 15 years old, … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Allie (again)
I loved this blog post in appreciation of using notebooks. The author talks about how she used notebooks as a kid, but gave them up as she grew older, feeling that it was somehow immature to be scribbling down her thoughts and ideas and the emotions of youth. But fortunately, she came back to the … Continue reading Rediscovering Notebooks
Spotted in Time Out NY magazine: “…most nights I’m sitting on the aisle, craning forward and scrawling illegible fragments in my notebook.”
This week’s addict emailed me a photo of her collection and says “Since I work all day at my computer doing medical transcription, I usually prefer to get away from the computer at the end of the day and do my creative writing longhand in various journals (for the first drafts, anyway). The journals in … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Renee
Suw Charman-Anderson has an interesting article at Forbes.com about the best ways to use a notebook for creative endeavors. She refers to another series of blog posts called The Entrepreneur’s Notebook, which brings up a controversial approach: I’ve always used my notebooks for everything, whether that was notes from a meeting I was in, to … Continue reading Keeping Your Creative Ideas in a Separate Notebook?
This week’s addict emailed me from the Philippines: “Thought that I would send you some of my notebook images over the years. 3 are moleskine while the other 2 are Front Notebook & an old diary. I like the pocket square Moleskine notebooks but as you can see from the images they tend to “decompose” … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Peter
A reader named Colin tipped me off to this week’s addict: David duChemin is a photographer and writer who has taken his notebooks with him on many travels. Below are 8 years’ worth of Moleskines: David writes These books have checklists (with little boxes for checking), ideas (little light-bulbs), simple drawings, phone numbers, names … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: David duChemin
This week’s addict wrote a blog post called A Pile of Notebooks, including the photo and excerpt below: I love notebooks, I love the possibilities that a new notebook holds; the clean blank pages, the elastic band that holds it closed, the ribbon page marker. But, being an obsessive-compulsive, each entry would have to be … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Mark William Jackson
A reader named LC tipped me off to this interesting conference happening this coming weekend at Harvard: “Take Note” brings together scholars from literature, history, media studies, information science, and computer science to explore the past and future roles of note-taking across the university. Panelists will discuss the history of note-taking in different disciplines as … Continue reading Take Note Conference
Martine is a French-German writer living in Germany, where she also enjoys gardening and painting, and blogs at TextLoft. She sent me these photos of her notebooks, noting that “In my defense I must say: I’m a writer, and so they are my ‘tools’.” I like these neat piles– obviously Martine has a few favorites … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Martine