Daigo Tea & Diary Time – Review and GIVEAWAY

Daigo Tea & Diary Time – Review and GIVEAWAY

A few weeks ago when I was browsing JetPens, my attention was captured by the Daigo Tea & Diary Time diaries ($11.50-12.50). These looked like the perfect little books in which to record a few simple thoughts of the day. Since I’ve written many times about how I struggle with daily journaling, I wondered if…

Notebook Review: Midori A6 Commonplace Book (How NOT to Commonplace!)

Notebook Review: Midori A6 Commonplace Book (How NOT to Commonplace!)

I picked up the Midori “Commonplace Book” ($5 and available in 2 colors) . This A6-sized, 61-numbered-page mini notebook includes a paper bookmark that is printed with lines to add your own key, a place to store your key in the book, and a 2-page spread index that is numbered to match page numbers. The…

Notebook Review: SIX Japanese Notebooks from JetPens (Tsubame, Teranishi, Tomoe River, Kukuyo, Yamamoto, & Nuoto)

Notebook Review: SIX Japanese Notebooks from JetPens (Tsubame, Teranishi, Tomoe River, Kukuyo, Yamamoto, & Nuoto)

There are several that the community has been talking about recently like the Canopus and the new Teranishi notebooks but I dug deeper and found a few others worth considering. I went through the whole inventory on JetPens and purchased every  A5 Japanese paper-filled notebook I could find. I found six notebooks that I had…