A thought-provoking quote from Mark Twain: It is a troublesome thing for a lazy man to take notes, so I used to try in my young days to pack my impressions in my head. But that can’t be done satisfactorily, so I went from that to another stage– that of making notes in a note-book. … Continue reading Mark Twain’s Notebooks
So often, I’ll see a really cool image pop up in the Moleskine Flickr pool, and it will turn out to be by Kathrin Jebsen-Marwedel. See her photostream here. She fills each page of a daily Moleskine planner with the most wonderful sketches, and the result is an extraordinary visual journal.
Last weekend, I read a wonderful novel called Andorra, by Peter Cameron. It’s elegantly and beautifully written, with some lush descriptions, including this scene, which takes place right at the beginning of the book, just after the narrator has arrived to start his new life in Andorra: I decided to visit the stationers. The front … Continue reading The Euphoria of Buying a Journal: Andorra, by Peter Cameron
There was an interesting article a few weeks ago in the New York Times, about electronic tools for note-taking: Bringing Order to the Chaos of Notes: MODERN life is a mess of notes, a tangle of countless scraps of information that we accumulate during our waking hours. In the morning, you attend a meeting with … Continue reading Paper vs. Electronic
Jackie loves notebooks–here’s her stack: Read more at Letters and Journals.
Today’s addict just completed a big household clean-up, including emptying out her 9.5 lb. purse, which turned out to contain 7 notebooks and journals: For more photos and tales of her organizational activities, read more at Jamie’s blog, Inspired Mess.
[UPDATED Jan. 2020: This store seems to have permanently closed. Sad!] Here’s an appealing website featuring stationery from France and beyond: Skripta-Paris. The site is in English and offers approximate US dollar conversions for their prices. (What you’ll actually pay is based on Euro prices converted at the prevailing rate by your credit card company.) … Continue reading Skripta-Paris
These look like rather nice journals, available at Jenni Bick: Petit Voyage European Bookcloth Diary They come in several other gorgeous colors.
Here’s the latest Notebook Addict of the Week, found on Flickr: They are filled with drawings and collage in a very raw style, by Kier Cooke Sandvik of Norway, whose profile reads as follows: transsexual, atheistic anarchist. I’m Other. See all the Flickr images here, (though I’m not sure the original set is still on … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: A Norwegian Artist
Ellann writes in to ask for help identifying this mysterious notebook: Two years ago, my mother gave me a notebook that I thought I would really hate, but turned out to love. The pictures are in the album linked to below. My guess would be that she bought it on sale somewhere like Staples or … Continue reading Help Another Reader Find a Notebook