Interview with Scrively: What Makes a Good Notebook?
Etchr Lab asks Scrively what makes a good notebook – from fountain-pen paper and useful formats to covers, page counts and the pleasure of starting afresh.
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Category Notebooks
Video-Review: Ateliers Phileas “Passepartout” (B6 Leather Notebook Cover)
The Passepartout B6 Notebook Cover from Ateliers Phileas is a pared-back interpretation of their well-known Yokohama design — created in response to customers who wanted the same craftsmanship, but in a simpler, more minimal format. By removing the extra elements — no…
Video-Review: Ateliers Phileas “Yokohama” (A6 Leather Notebook Cover)
It is pretty much exactly one year ago that I had introduced the then new stationery brand Ateliers Phileas with a review of their first product, the A5 leather notebook cover called Yokohama. I have used that A5 cover, and…
Video-Review: Ateliers Phileas “Yokohama” (A5 Leather Notebook Cover)
There is a new star rising on the stationery horizon! And if the likes of Superior Labour, The Traveler’s Company, Midori MD, or Y-Studio are floating your boat, you definitely might want to check out the Ateliers Phileas, as they…
Inside Stationery (Pt. 04): Beate Mangrig – Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter
Inside Stationery – series background (click to expand) I have been doing stationery reviews for a few years now. While I will continue making these, I sometimes feel that the focus on the products and their specs tends to take…
Video-Review: Roterfaden Taschenbegleiter (A5)
Roterfaden is an extremely interesting calendar/notebook system company, which essentially started from a diploma thesis at design school (read more about the background and history here). The idea behind the patented clip mechanism-based and handmade (!!!) system is to provide…
The Bullet Journal-Workshop (Pt. 7): Switching my planning system to the Traveler’s Notebook
Scrively and the Bullet Journal – Background (click to expand) I have become a user of the analogue Bullet Journal organization system a few years back. The Bullet Journal-Workshop is meant to share with you the ideas, add-ons, adaptations and small improvements that I have come…
Video-Review: Traveler’s Notebook (passport size)
Travelers notebooks are a quite popular everyday-carry for many people around the world for the reason of these notebooks being sturdy, flexible (i.e. containing – often many – interchangeable inserts) and good looking. Paired with a nice fountain pen, travelers…
Video-Workshop: How to make a fountain pen-friendly notebook yourself
I have been trying very many pocket notebooks. Some of them were okay. Most of them sucked when it came to taking fountain pens At some point I just got tired of it all and thought to myself: Why constantly…
Video-Review: Paper Republic “Grand Voyageur” Travelers Notebook
Travelers notebooks are a quite popular everyday-carry for many people around the world for the reason of these notebooks being sturdy, flexible (i.e. containing – often many – interchangeable inserts) and good looking. Paired with a nice fountain pen, travelers…
Video-Review: Ogami Professional (Stone Paper) Notebook
Ogami-notebooks, and especially the so called stone paper (which is a non-wood, limestone based product) that these are equipped with, are fairly interesting products – but they are also discussed ambivalently in the stationery-community. While the notebooks are not all too…