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…
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Resolve to write in 2012
Resolve to write in 2012 (via beinggeekchic entry re-published in its entirety) I’ve been talking a lot about resolutions around here. If you’re a writer, but can only seem to muster the energy to write a tweet everyday – then this 5-year journal is for you. When 140 character tweets are the new micro-novel, this…
The Field Book from Russel + Hazel is an understated all-business notebook. It has grid pages for notes and plans with blank backs for sketching. There’s even an interior vellum envelope for storing ephemera. It contains 100 pages, twin-loop wire binding and measure 5”x7.25”. $8 (via Russell and Hazel)
The Library Pocket Journal is filled with a wide variety of papers (lined, graphed, blank, colored) some printed with images of ticket stubs, postcards and other travel ephemera interspersed throughout the whole book along with half dozen envelopes bound into the pages to hold any ephemera. 5.5” x 8” and contains 56 pages. $22 (via…
A subscription is a great gift that will keep on giving like the Colors subscription from Field Notes. If you purchase a subscription now, you’ll receive two sets of the Northerly 3-packs and two kraft-cover 3-packs sent immediately and then quarterly, other limited edition sets will be delivered. Each quarterly set will include two 3-packs…
Based on a vintage USPS leather pouch found in an antique show, the new Field Notes “Pony Express” leather pouch easily holds a couple Field Notes memo pads and looks like its built-to-last. $89 (via Field Notes)
I have a secret obsession — the Midori Traveler’s Notebook. It is a beautiful build-it-yourself notebook with a leather cover from Japan. Using a series of rubber bands, you can “bind” in an assortment of smaller notebooks for drawing, writing, and calendar along with pockets and zipper pouches to contain smaller loose items. The attention…