With every week that I do Link Love, I see and feel transitions in the types of posts I find. Lately, I’ve seen a shift towards the paper part of our hobby. As the vessel for our thoughts, ideas, plans and memories, paper can often be the most important part of the stationery hobby. Whether you are looking for notecards or writing paper for letters, notebooks for ideas and projects, journals for memory keeping or planners for (finally) getting your life in order, paper is the key.
We can feel like we have enough ink, enough pens and enough ephemera but do we ever feel like we have enough notebooks? In every size, configuration or possible paper to fulfill every possible writing, drawing or notetaking need?
Are you already plotting your 2027 planner, seeking out a new notebook or stockpiling your favorite notebook in case it ever gets discontinued? Leave me a note in the comments. I’d love to hear about your notebook stash!
Pen Show Recaps:
- 2026 DC Pen Show (via Rachel’s Reflections)
- DC Pen Show 2026 Recap: The First of the Big Shows Was … Big! (via The Gentleman Stationer)
Pens:
- Meet Your Maker: Darrell Davis, D Squared Arts (via The Pen Addict)
- REVIEWS: Ninja-themed fountain pen. Cotton candy potato chips. Glamorous badger. (via Extra Fine Writing)
- Review: Pelikan M200 Copper Rose Gold Fountain Pen (via Inky Imaginings)
- Taking Note (via Line Variation)
Ink:
- Green and Blue This Week (via An Inkophile’s Blog)
Pencils:
- The Best Pencil Sharpeners (via JetPens)
- Waterman metal-capped pencils (via The Leadhead’s Pencil Blog)
Notebooks & Paper:
- TRC USA Road Trip Report from Stationery Fest 2026 (via TRAVELER’S COMPANY USA Blog)
- Stationery Events in Japan (via fudefan)
- Somehow It’s Almost Planner Season (via Casual Crossings)
- Web Finds – 19 August 2026 (via Travellers Notebook Times)
- Free For All Friday No. 927 by Eve: Why Empty Pages Can Feel So Intimidating (via Philofaxy)
- Filofax Inserts (Reproduced) (via Philofaxy)
- Surprise Brilliance (via Rachel’s Reflections)
- My Notebooks Have Become a Meme (via Notebook Stories)
- The Paper Workout Journal (via Bullet Journal Blog)
- The best thing you can do for yourself in 2026 is to keep a daily diary (via Bullet Journal)
Other Interesting Things:
- Why a Japanese potato chip bag lost its colour (via It’s Nice That)
- A.J. Jacobs recently interviewed “the Papa Bear of Puzzling”… (via kottke.org)
- G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost. (via kottke.org)
- The Lost Art of Carrying Loads (via Carryology)
- Ask TGS: Are Leather or Fabric Pen Cases “Better” for your Pens? (via The Gentleman Stationer)
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