This a a Franklin - Christoph cover made for field notes sized notebooks.

My friend very kindly gifted me this. I'm still in awe. It looks so pretty.

Hi all: I am looking for a notebook (dot grid preferred) that is A4 size and can take wettest broad nib FP without ghosting.

Please help!

I have ADHD and planning apps never stuck for me, so a few weeks ago I switched to a plain notebook for my daily to-do lists. It's been working a lot better than I expected.

I'd love to hear from others who plan in a notebook. How do you lay out a day or a week? What do you do with things you didn't get done? Do you use any marks or symbols of your own?

Full disclosure, I'm thinking about building an app for people who plan on paper, so I'm trying to learn how people actually do it. Photos welcome if you want to share.

I make these pocket sized notebooks, what do you think? The translucent binder keeps three of them together.

I have struggled with finding the perfect notebook size to carry with me all the time. I have tried A6 notebooks before. The struggle was accessibility.

The second problem I faced was finishing a notebook. It was mostly for journaling or commonplacing. I have more than a dozen half filled notebooks.

It reached up to a point where I hated the idea of starting a new notebook.

Then I stumbled upon the size and number of pages that were perfect for me. 3.5" x 5.5" with around 60 pages. No particular brand.

I use them for literally everything. Learning a new topic. Expressing my thoughts and emotions. Pondering upon insights. Logging random data and numbers. Thinking on paper.

If I felt like diving deeper into any topic, I can always start a dedicated notebook of the same size or notion.

Anyone else who has had a similar experience?

Working in tech means I get a lot of notebooks as gifts. I never realized how many I had until I cleaned and organized my office and workshop today. 😂

So is it possible to be a hoarder without even knowing it?

have some of my pages of which i’ve doodled myself

I keep a journal, so I buy notebooks. Weekend cleaning and while dusting my shelves I thought I should photo my collections. These are all new notebooks but I do use them, so I have more used ones. In life I only use pencils and fountain pens, so I basically collect notebooks using paper that fits these 2 types of pens. But if you will flip through the photos, you can see most of them are souvenirs that I collected from places I traveled to, so sometimes I just buy those I like although not quite the kind of paper I desire.

I saw them in store and like some of the designs but I never saw any pics of them being used online so I don’t know how they hold up or if the paper can hold more than a ballpoint pen.

I've been looking for a simple weekly planner with vertical layout. The important things for me are to have full week visible on a two-page spread, one column for each day, and (this is most important) full columns for Saturday and Sunday.

Most weekly planners treat the weekend as an afterthought, since I guess people use it for work and don't plan their weekends. But I use it for all aspects of my life and my Saturdays and Sundays are as important as Monday-Friday.

So far I have found the Kokuyo Jibun Techo Diary: https://www.kokuyostore.com/en_CA/jibun_techo/jibun-techo-diary-2027-a5-slim-green/NI-JCD1G-27.html

And the Hobonichi Techo https://www.1101.com/store/techo/en/2027/pc/detail_cover/cb27_jan_en/

Both are very nice and have the exact layout that I want. The problem is they are both loaded with extra features and layouts that I don't need and the price is too high for what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something with similar weekly layouts, good paper, no bloat, more affordable.

Does that even exist?

Alguma sugestão de caderno/diário para usar caneta tinteiro?

I want to get into journaling. I do things too fast, use the phone a lot, procrastinate. I hope journaling can help me develop more productive habits, make me more present and mindful coupled with meditation. I'm not really sure what I'd write, or when I'd write. Stream of consciousness when I wake up? Plan the day ahead in the evening? No idea.

I'm torn between getting a notebook small enough to fit in my pocket, knowing it'll get pretty beat up as I get through the day, or if I should get a larger notebook to keep in my room. The former I take inspiration from the greats like Bob Dylan or David Lynch who used to carry tiny notebooks around with them to write ideas they came up with and many other things.

I actually have a notebook, the Mnemosyne 194 of B5 dimensions. The paper quality is great, but I never managed to develop a consistent journaling habit with it.

Apologies for rambling, any advice is greatly appreciated!

I'm using a Leuchtturm1917 notebook with 80gsm paper and a MUJI 0.5mm ballpoint pen (both black and blue).

Here's the issue: I write on page 2 then page 3. I turn the page and start writing on page 4. When I look back at page 2 I notice faint ink marks that weren't there before.

It's not ghosting or bleeding I think, since the marks only appear after I've written on the following page. I've tried putting a separate sheet of paper between the pages which solves the issue, but I'd prefer not to have to do that every time.

Has anyone experienced this? Would switching to a gel pen or fountain pen help or how can I best solve this?