OK, we’re definitely going old school on this review. The Colonel Littleton No. 30 Leather Composition Journal doesn’t have any chips, batteries, buttons, etc…it doesn’t even protect or carry tech. This journal is meant to capture your thoughts, dreams, notes, todos by putting pen to paper. Over the years, I have attempted (and failed for the …
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Let’s see a show of hands, how many of you use Post-it Notes on a regular basis? Me too. I always have a ubiquitous pad of the yellow 3 x 3 inch notes somewhere on my desk so I can quickly jot down a note, phone number, to do, etc. The best thing about Post-it …
The Post-it Extreme Notes are the Fisher Space Pen of sticky notesRead More
A while ago, Julie reviewed the Wipebook notebook with dry-erase pages inside. That version was a hardback book, and Julie had an issue with the book not laying flat. Wipebook has been evolving since then, and there are three new versions available, including one sized to carry in your pocket for quick notes to yourself. …
Back in my day, composition books were only available with those black-and-white speckled covers. Now you can get them with most everything on the covers, but none of those designs will be as appealing to your Harry Potter fans as these notebooks are. ThinkGeek has a set of four composition books with the Hogwarts’ House …
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I have been using a very simple Bullet Journal style of task management for the last 4 years. It has worked out well for me because I can keep a notebook open next to me all day so I am able to see a daily list of what I need to do and I get …
Julie’s gadget diary – I’m ditching paper and going back to a digital To-Do systemRead More
If you have trouble keeping up with a pen or pencil for writing in your journal or planner, you’ll be interested in the Journal Bandolier. The Bandolier straps around your notebook, journal, or planner, and it keeps your pens, pencils, or markers corralled in loops. You’ll always have your favorite writing implements handy when you …
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A few months ago I had the pleasure of going to the Moleskine 2017 Fall & Winter Preview in New York City. They unveiled new products such as planners, bags, notebooks and more. I had a nice time taking in the awesome views of the New York City skyline while viewing some lovely new products. …
Originally designed for creative professionals, the Action Method is a note-taking system that focuses on identifying the action steps you need to keep your projects moving forward. Behance, the creators of the Action Method, have also developed a full line of beautiful notebook products designed specifically to work with their system. For this review, we’re …
Karst describes themselves as the world’s first stone paper stationery company. They make a series of hardbound and paperbound Moleskine-like notebooks with paper made from recycled stone. The notebooks are thread-bound and lay completely flat. Writing on the paper is smooth because it lacks the grain directionality of normal paper. Karst says their stone paper …
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Always on the lookout for small items that I can use in an emergency, I happened upon the Midori Memorandum Card and just had to share it. Made by Midori in Japan, these tiny 31-page notepads are only 2.25 x 3.33 x 0.1 inches, which makes them about the footprint of a standard credit card, …
Midori Memorandum Card might be the world’s smallest notebook!Read More
Fans of Baron Fig’s Confidant notebook now have a new version to consider. It’s called the Unfinish notebook because each page in the notebook has an unfinished drawing that invites you to finish it in any way that you can imagine. The drawings are in light blue so you can ignore them if you want …
Baron Fig’s new Unfinish notebook is the perfect journal for doodlersRead More
Pocket notebook company Word. has just announced a new limited series of their notebooks called the Beach Vibes collection. This collection includes three different notebook that will be available in packages of three. There’s the Surf, Palm, and Beach cover styles. Once these three styles sell out, they’ll be gone forever. Each 3.5 x 5.5in …
I like notebooks. Even in this increasingly digital world, in which we use apps on phones and tablets to record notes to ourselves and share them with others instantly, I find a traditional notebook to be useful. From anything to jotting a quick reminder to making to-do lists to keeping a journal, an old-school paper notebook …
I’ve always been a fan of notebooks. They are great for keeping in one place all of your jotting, journaling, doodling, to-do listings, thought capturing, inventing and on and on. I’ve tried several different notebooks over the years, and my favorite had always been the venerable Moleskine. But I’m also a fan of the crowdfunding site …
The picture above might look like a Kindle or another eReader device, but it’s not. It’s the reMarkable, a tablet that has been designed especially for reading, writing and sketching. You might say “Julie, we already have tablets that can do that, they are called an iPad”. You would be right… partially. You can read, …
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