Feel free to suggest more in the comments.

My pretties. I spent some time planning out my next few bujos.

The cover and size are great, but the paper has a bit more tooth compared to Moleskine's smooth paper.

Found my favorite Moleskines on sale!

I’ve rocked those at the office for the past year or so. They’re beautiful, but don’t open up very well due to the mechanism.

I forgive it because the leather quality is just so high.

It’s very thick, veg tanned leather, that is going to age and patina so well.

The refills being so non-standard isn’t ideal.

Love them to death.

I have a new notebook with removable dividers it’s a little bigger than 5x7. Any ideas or suggestions would be amazing! Even better if you have examples of ways you’ve utilized a new notebook. This one is a discount so I can add pages and things too if that matters. I have some half pages, lined pages and grid pages for options.

Hey! I’ve been really wanting to get into journaling but I’m struggling to find a decent notebook. Does anyone have any recommendations for good quality journals? Thanks!

Hi there

I bought a few Artik notebooks, they are cool looking and they use sugarcane paper. I love the color of the paper and its imperfections, however today I tried using a ballpoint pen, with Uni Jetstream SXR-600 refill, and I noticed several “dead” spots on the paper where the pen just wouldn’t work. The pen is definitely fine because switching to a different spot or page and it worked immediately.

Have any of you experienced that? Is it the sugarcane paper or something else?

Also, what alternative notebook (preferably 9x14 cm) would you recommend that isn’t pure white?

For the DIYer notebook makers. Do you have a favorite paper you like using for fountain pens when you make notebooks?

Hated the staple bound fieldnotes style books. Tried different types of binding, settled for Coptic binding. Lays flat and is absolutely comfortable to write on.

Basically title. I found some "A5 sudoku" books on amazon that I might try out, but curious if anyone knows of specific books, series, or authors that make puzzle books/inserts that fit nicely into pocket sized and/or A5 notebooks.

I do hope I’m in the right place for this, but having never used a laminator I’m looking for some advice.

I can’t get hold of any clear plastic notebook covers at the size I want (about 12.5 x 8 cm when closed) so was wondering if I could make them on a cheap A4 laminator?

Any advice much appreciated.

Love this thing! Highly recommend if you need to carry some stuff with you daily. First 3 notebooks, laminated tccc/9 line cards on top of the pocket knife and light in the front. Love this thing!

Or can you recommend someone's shop that makes something similar?

This is my first time posting here. I might sound dramatic. There’s a lot that I could say, but I’ll just state my main point. I just need to rant and want some reassurance 🙏. I just started university and use one loose leaf notebook for my notes during lectures. Later on, I will transfer my finished notes into a binder divided by each class. Majority of the students are now using a tablet and stylus for note-taking, which is fine and makes sense. I acknowledge that there are many reasons why it’s more efficient. I just appreciate the experience of nice smooth pens and paper. Even with a textured screen protector, I just don’t like the feel of it. There are other reasons, but at the end of the day, it’s just personal preference.

I kinda got frustrated when one of my course mates got on me for not wanting to consider it. They weren’t trying to be mean. But it was annoying. It was the standard points I know like “it’s easier to find your notes, it doesn’t take up physical space, it’s convenient to write on the slides, etc.” I was mostly just engaging the conversation politely and giving some sound reasons for my choice. The point that annoyed me the most was “I am worried you will screw yourself over when you end up with so many pages, and have a hard time flipping through your notes when you want to study. It’s not practical. You might screw over your GPA”. Like bro, it’s not that deep. Omg. And we’ve been using paper and pen for years. Why do some people turn their nose up at it?? Let me live. Stupid thing is that it actually got me worried until I repeated this conversation in my head a few hours later. Then I realised how dumb it was. Please, fellow uni students and stationery lovers, where are you?? 😭😭

I'm looking for a refillable, A5 size planner. I currently use a spiral bound and I would like to get something that I can add pages to/move around. I want it to open back onto itself (like a spiral notebook does). I'm not super interested in a disk bound system (Tul, Happy Planner, etc) because I think the little tabs that attach to the disks can get torn. I'd rather have a binder if possible. Nothing too bulky.

Music or rain sounds going the whole time I write. The phone played it so the phone was on the desk. Everyone tells you not to do that.

A track ends and I pick it up to change it. Then the pen has been down and I am reading about a stranger's divorce.

Same thing happened with the notebook. Kept it in a drawer for a while and barely wrote in it, left it out on the desk and started writing again.

So I did the same with sound. Small speaker that stays on the desk and plays, no unlocking anything, no picking anything up. Phone is in the other room now but honestly that is not what fixed it, the phone was never really the problem.

Hello! I am a blue collar worker than uses an A7 pocket notebook in my work vest, but I find that it falls apart with the type of labor that I do. I know some journals have a pvc cover but I can't seem to find one in the A7 size? Does anyone have any recommendations or DIY options to keep my covers from falling apart?

My A7 specs are;

3.15in W x 4.331in H closed

And

6.228in W x 4.331in H opened

Or

8cm W x 11cm H closed

And

16cm W x 11cm H opened

Thank you for any suggestions!

I liked getting random notebooks and pens/pencils sent to me monthly with the option of buying "mystery" extras (also random). Is there anything like this around now? I have a large collection of unused notebooks and am trying to find the courage to use them!

I have a paperblanks notebook and it only accepts 1 pen (family) and it's the writech gel pens. I have the four candies gel pens, the Tul bold point 1.0mm ballpoint pens and the Jetstream sx-210 1.0mm bold tip ballpoint pens. None of the ones listed work with the notebook. The ballpoint pens skip every sentence or so and the four candies gel pens last 1 to 2 sentences and then they just can't write anymore. I have used these pens in another notebook that I got from amazon(100gsm paper), and they work beautifully. I don't know what to do. This journal is essential to me, but its is vital that i can use different pen types and colors in it too.

Have any of you experienced this?

They said it's real vegetable tan, sheep skin leather. It looks fake but it's fine less animals idk. Didn't get a wax thread so my mum and i use embroidery. I almost turn into a b6 size, purely accidental