note taking & writing
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Leuchtturm1917 has released the B5-composition notebooks as a new format in the beginning of 2016. What Leuchtturm has now added to the line-up is a combination of a 16 month-planner and notebook in this B5-tablet format. I was of course…
Fountain pens, to me, are the ultimate writing instrument and a great pleasure to use. Lefties, however, often face numerous challenges and questions when it comes to fountain pen usage. I am a lefty myself, and part of my “mission”…
Among the many notebooks available out there, few have caught me eyes in the recent time more than the ones of Portugal-based mishmash. The company takes pride in designing creative and minimalist notebooks, which I think they succeed in. I…