Notebooks

Send the kids to Hogwarts, er… school with these Harry Potter composition books

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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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Julie’s gadget diary – I’m ditching paper and going back to a digital To-Do system

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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

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Never lose your pen again with the Journal Bandolier

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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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Action Method Notebooks review

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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

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Set your calendar in stone with Karst Stone Paper planners

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Karst describes themselves as the world’s first mineral paper stationery company. They make a series of hardbound and paperbound Moleskine-like notebooks with Stone Paper brand material made from calcium carbonate. 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

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Midori Memorandum Card might be the world’s smallest notebook!

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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,

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Baron Fig’s new Unfinish notebook is the perfect journal for doodlers

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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

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Word. introduces their new Beach Vibes collection

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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

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Baron Fig Confidant Hardcover Notebook review

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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

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reMarkable is a dedicated tablet for reading, writing and sketching

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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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Harry Potter fans and Moleskine fans unite with these new notebooks

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Moleskine has unveiled two Harry Potter Limited Edition Notebooks that have artwork and special touches that true fans will immediately recognize. There’s a clothbound notebook that features the Marauder’s Map on the cover along with the inscription “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good”, and the other notebook has a Patronus Charm burgundy

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Keep your pocket notebook safe in a Rickshaw Pocket Journal Sleeve

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If you’re a pocket notebook fan who likes to use Field Notes notebooks, Word notebooks or some other brand, you should take a look at the Pocket Journal Sleeve from Rickshaw Bagworks. This sleeve has been designed to hold a standard 3.5 x 5 inch pocket notebook along with your favorite writing instrument. Rickshaw makes

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Moleskine’s new Two-Go notebooks have a split personality

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Get the best of both worlds with Moleskine’s new Two-Go notebooks. Featuring two page spreads that have lined pages on one side and blank pages on the opposite side, this type of dual layout allows you to take notes on the lined pages and draw sketches on the blank side. The Two-Go notebooks are 4.5

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Moleskine’s new notebooks celebrate 50yrs of The Beatles Yellow Submarine

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In 1966 The Beatles released Yellow Submarine, the title song of the animated film by the same name. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, Moleskine is debuting The Beatles Limited Edition notebook collection. This new collection of notebooks from Moleskine includes five styles and two sizes including a

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