Is there anyone who can resist a composition book? I can’t, even though in some ways they really don’t fit into my notebook usage patterns these days. They aren’t my favorite size, they aren’t my favorite shape, and it’s sometimes hard to find ones that aren’t wide-rule lined, but I love them anyway. I admire … Continue reading Review: Roaring Spring Composition Books
The Daily Beast takes a look at some favorite notebook brands and how to use them, with links to some other interesting resources, such as an article from Forbes about how to keep a leadership journal. Their top picks, all good ones: Leuchtturm Dotted Journal Maruman Mnemosyne Grid Notebooks Midori MD Lined Notebook Rite in … Continue reading Choosing a Notebook for Journaling
I am a book lover, so these Manuscript Notebooks totally caught my eye. They’ve taken beautiful retro book cover art and used it for the covers of these softcover notebooks: The notebooks are a single signature of pages, with stitched spine. The 3.5 x 5.5″ sizing is comparable to Field Notes, Moleskine Cahier and other … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Manuscript Notebooks
Something new and different! Spotted at Kinokuniya bookstore in NYC: I haven’t seen these for sale anywhere else, but they’re made by a UK company: Waverley Books. Two sizes are available. Here’s the full product description from their site: The Waverley Scotland Tartan Cloth Commonplace Notebooks Anderson has 176 pages (left side blank, right side … Continue reading Waverley Scottish Plaid Notebooks
You may remember Michael Bierut’s stack of composition books that he’s used for many years– one of my favorite notebook stories ever. Now, Aron Fay, a colleague of Bierut’s at Pentagram, has a Kickstarter project going for an upscale, redesigned version of the composition book, using higher end materials and construction. While part of me … Continue reading The Composition Book Reimagined: “comp”
I’m sure no one has failed to notice the adult coloring book trend that’s exploded over the last few years. Bookstores are jam-packed with them. Many have gorgeous , elaborate designs, but that’s all there is to them: pages to color. For those of us who are always carrying a notebook or journal anyway, the … Continue reading Review and Giveaway: Coloring Notebook
Moleskine has introduced a new product that will answer a frequent question I’ve gotten from readers: “Where can I get a notebook with plain pages on one side and lined on the other?” The new “Two-Go” notebooks are an in-between size, 4.5 x 6.9″, with cloth covers, similar to the Voyageur. (Moleskine’s Pocket notebooks are … Continue reading Moleskine Monday: Two-Go Notebook
Papier Tigre is a super-cool French brand of office supplies, including recycled notebooks that I’d seen online but never encountered in person, so I was very excited when NoteMaker (now Milligram) in Australia gave me the opportunity to review a free sample. The notebook I received has a lovely composition book look to it, but … Continue reading Review: Papier Tigre Notebook
National Stationery Week is 25 April – 1 May 2016 in the UK, and the Independent features 10 top notebook picks to celebrate. My two favorites below! Atlas & I Personalised Map Leather Journal:From £38, Not On The High Street “Simply provide a postcode and place name which means something to you, and Atlas & … Continue reading 10 Notebooks to Celebrate National Stationery Week
This week’s addict emailed me photos of her notebook collection: Hi, my name is Mary and these are my notebooks: I guess you could say I’m addicted to them. I mean, everybody needs a notebook sometimes, right? If I didn’t have these, I wouldn’t have anyplace to write stuff down. I wrote something in this … Continue reading Notebook Addict of the Week: Mary