Can’t afford to buy a Midori Traveler’s notebook? Consider trying the Pelle Leather Journal. It also features a handmade leather cover and elastics to attach notebooks to the cover. The Pelle journal measures 4.3 inches X 6.8 inches and includes one notebook and a fabric carrying bag. $39.99
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White and pink get a touch of dinosaur whimsy. It’s a functional workspace with personality. I’m charmed.
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Currently available on the other side of the pond from Moleskine is the Postal Notebook. Its a paperboard folio enclosure, ready-to-mail, with eight plain pages bound inside. There are two sizes available: pocket and large for £4 and £5.50 respectively and each is available in six different color paperboard covers. What a wonderful way to capture a story, long letter or a travel missive and send back to friends.
Looks like these should become available in the US around Feb 1.
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Ikea Alex flat files and West Elm’s ubiquitous Parsons desk reappear in yet another configuration showing there is no end of combinations that these pieces can be subjected and still look kind of chic.
(via Apartment Therapy)
If you are particular about color or want to create a rainbow with your writings, these leather journals from PaperThinks may be just the thing. Made with 100% recycled leather covers and 50% recycled cream lined paper stock, these are as environmental as they are lovely. Available in about 18 different colors 5 × 6.75″, 256 pages, $17.95 each. Also available with blank pages (oh, joy!).
Many of the colors are available in a smaller 4×5”, 96-page version are currently available for $6.95 each. And finally a 4”x5” 256-page blank sheet version for $12.95 each. Organization has never looked so colorful.
(via Kate’s Paperie)
The pocket notebook trend isn’t recent. Leave it to The Art of Manliness to find references to real men keeping pocket notebooks like the ones shown in the photo above since the early 20th century. Real men take notes, proudly, and the suggestions for uses for these notebooks are as valid today as they were 100 years ago: keeping a list of future to-do’s, names of potential contacts or recent introductions, and all those other valuable tidbits of information that can help you be more organized, successful or productive.
Also recommended is to keep a hard lead pencil with your notebook and not a pen or soft lead pencil which can risk being smudged or blurred entirely by moisture, be it rain or overturned canoe.
(via The Art of Manliness and Field Notes)
