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Notebooks and related stationery: "any aspect of your life which you want to give more conscious attention to can be used as the foundation for a notebook."

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Rules

1. Discussion and sharing is the goal. All posts must be directly related to paper notebooks and focus on discussion or sharing of our passion. We encourage posts with questions, reviews, pictures, news, or just general notebook geeking.

2. Personal Conduct. Please use a civil and respectful tone when entering into conversation. Help us maintain a friendly, welcoming community.

3. Prohibited - Storefronts/Funding Websites. To support the focus of our community, we do not allow direct link posts to websites for funding or purchases. This includes company storefronts (like Field Notes), Amazon, Etsy, and Kickstarter campaigns. However, these links may be provided within text posts and comments. For more information see this announcement and this one

Related Subreddits:

Content:

  • Personal notebook reviews, uses, creative ideas
  • Discussion and suggestions for notebooks
  • Reviews
  • Customization of commercially available notebooks
  • A bridge between notebook consumers and producers
  • Industry dealings
  • DIY Notebook Building e.g. binding
  • Personal/group projects
  • Notebook systems
  • Pen to notebook suitability
  • Notebook brand promotions
  • Notepads

Notable Posts:

Notebook Share

Popular Types:

  • Utility Style (approx. 3.5" x 5.5" or 8.9 cm x 14 cm), for fitting into pockets and other spots where portability is important. Popular with the Every-Day Carry (EDC) crowd. Durable and expendable.
  • Book Style, for longer-term durability and better quality at the expense of cost and (often) portability.
  • Lab Notebooks, for professional/personal recording and planning of projects, experiments etc. Often pages are pre-numbered, & have a table-of-contents page and areas for signatures and dates. Sometimes used as evidence in legislation & patent applications.

Common ISO 216 sizes chart:

Size Millimeters Inches
A4 210 x 297 8.25 x 11.75
A5 148 x 210 5.875 x 8.25
B5 176 x 250 7 x 9.875
B6 125 x 176 5 x 7

Uses for Notebooks:

Custom Notebooks:

Subreddit Timeline

  • 660 subscribers as of 03OCT2013
  • 1286 subscribers as of 08NOV2013
  • 2058 subscribers as of 17JAN2014
  • 3098 subscribers as of 21MAY2014
  • 4213 subscribers as of 01SEP2014
  • 5170 subscribers as of 28NOV2014
  • 6,445 subscribers as of 13FEB2015
  • 7,000 subscribers as of 17MAR2015
  • 8,210 subscribers as of 24JUN2015
  • 9,306 subscribers as of 12SEP2015
  • 10,000 subsccribers as of 06NOV2015
  • 15,085 subscribers as of 14OCT2016
  • 20,173 subscribers as of 19SEP2017
  • 25,280 subscribers as of 25APR2018

Some common lingo:

  • FP = Fountain Pen
  • FN = Field Notes
  • (M)TN = (Midori) Traveller Notebook
  • RITR = Rite in the Rain
  • BuJo = Bullet Journal

/r/notebooks

130,340 Subscribers

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Do you have a signature notebook/diary?

mine is stifflexible (strange one but the first that I used)

10 Comments
2024/10/31
23:26 UTC

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journal recommendations for

(and this is specific because I’m neurotic) •A5 journal with •cream or off white pages •a section for the date on each page •college rule

would also like it to include, but it’s not a deal breaker without : •an aesthetic design •i love soft flexible covers •less than 200 pages

I found a couple of journals that match on amazon but it’s so hard to know the quality IMO. Thank you so much in advance!!!

5 Comments
2024/10/31
19:22 UTC

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Notebook Therapy Giveaway

Has anyone here ever actually won something from Notebook Therapy? They routinely offer giveaways on Instagram, but I don't see that they've ever listed winners. According to their posts, they will make announcements. It's illegal to offer a giveaway as a means to get more followers a/k/a sales, and not every actually give something away.

2 Comments
2024/10/31
19:00 UTC

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Looking for journal recs

Hello! trying to find a journal brand with specific things. unsure if i can find one that matches perfectly but id love a journal with these things:

hardcover, no spiral numbered pages cover is easy to draw on (optional) ~200 pages (i dont write a lot in a year)

thanks in advance!

3 Comments
2024/10/31
16:19 UTC

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Take A Note A5?

Genuinely curious. Is there anyone here on this subreddit that has a Take A Note A5 from any year they would like to sell? It doesn’t matter if its used up, your dog chewed on it or whatever. I just currently use the A6 size but I’m considering moving up in size but not sure if it would suit me. Wanted to trail run a month in it to see how it would go.

If not selling, I have some Stalogy A6 notebooks I haven’t used up if you’re willing to trade in rather but I’m willing to buy.

Thank you! #fingerscrossed

1 Comment
2024/10/31
14:42 UTC

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Journal with me | pink theme aesthetic 🌸 (pink stationery)

0 Comments
2024/10/31
11:37 UTC

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Notebook recommendations

Are there any notebook brands you would recommend that can hold up a fountain pen. Would be used for journaling, sub $10 and hard cover if possible. Otherwise not looking for anything fancy.

Thanks!!

11 Comments
2024/10/31
09:01 UTC

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What would you use this notebook for?

239 Comments
2024/10/31
01:32 UTC

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How do you like to convert certain notes your catch-all notebook into action or expand them?

Wondering how you like to make sure you action or expand certain things in your catch-all notebook.

e.g. Do you look at your catch-all weekly or maybe every evening then decide on what do to with each note? Maybe expand on them in a different notebook or add them into a future todo list?

14 Comments
2024/10/31
01:17 UTC

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Never Buy From Leuchtturm1917 Directly

At least in Canada, Leuchtturm1917's online storefront is more or less a scam. Ordered a notebook and pen from them 2 weeks ago (both in stock at the time of ordering), never received any shipping info and they ignore all support emails asking for info or requesting a cancellation. Normally, I support buying direct from businesses but for Leuchtturm if you really want their product you're better off buying from Amazon since they clearly don't care about their product or their customers. Or better yet just don't buy from them. Going to dispute the charges through my bank and hopefully that's the end of it.

31 Comments
2024/10/30
20:41 UTC

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Travellers Journal Suggestions?

Hello! Im a med student and thinking of using a travellers journal setup for my clinical rotations. Heres what I am looking for:

- I think I am looking for A6 size

- a size where I can incorporate multiple journals purchased from other vendors (not a journal where I have to buy refills from the one company)

- relatively inexpensive :) I like the paper republic ones but 200 is a lot, something around 100 is feasible!

Thank you for your suggestions!

1 Comment
2024/10/30
16:25 UTC

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Smart notebook with real paper

Hello, maybe you can help me. I have a Parker pan that i love but i want to try a smart notebook like the rocketbook, exists something similar with paper where i can use my pen? Thank you!

3 Comments
2024/10/30
11:12 UTC

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Using up old notebooks

So like probably most of you, I’ve ended up with a whole bunch of notebooks over the years that I would love to use, but currently have no purpose. I’m trying to get past the ‘perfect first page’ mentality but there’s only so many general notes one can make…please give me ideas for how to use my notebooks!

9 Comments
2024/10/30
11:08 UTC

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Which Of My Stories Can I Associate My Banded Colourful Notebook With?

Which story do you think makes a good fit for this notebook?

View Poll

0 Comments
2024/10/30
09:32 UTC

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New notebook

5 Comments
2024/10/30
03:35 UTC

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Mead notebook circa 2010

Hello everyone! I need you to help me find this one type of mead notebook in particular

I think they made these ones around 10 to 15 years ago. The notebook was pink themed and had sticker sheets of four to five characters of girls from different ethnicities in it. I think this was a recurring theme in the notebook. Please please help me find this notebook… I’ve looked everywhere and it’s a reminder of my past when I didn’t reall6 have a lot t9 worry about…

I don’t need to buy the notebook per se, even pictures would suffice. I’ve jus been having these flashes from t)that time period and this notebook really called out to me!

Thank you so much! Have a great day :)

0 Comments
2024/10/30
02:15 UTC

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Cover advice

Hello everyone 👋. I'm pretty new to this whole planner/notebook thing. I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips regarding a cover for my new hobonichi (plain) A5 notebook.

I am looking for something that is not too expensive. I like black covers with metallic text on them (e.g. like the hobonichi Techo) or rather unexciting covers.

I live in Germany, so not everything is available. I would be happy to receive suggestions.

1 Comment
2024/10/29
22:52 UTC

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I think I'm good for notebooks now.

49 Comments
2024/10/29
22:51 UTC

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B6 sized planners/ notebook inserts

Hi folks,

I have this traveller's notebook, which fits B6 and B6 slim sized notebooks. I really love it and find it easy to write in, even if I have to hold it directly in my hand. However, I'm finding it difficult to find notebooks to fit in.

I currently have a midori notebook in it, and some A6 notebooks. The A6 notebooks are great for notetaking and journalling-style things but what I want to do now is to add a planner to it for next year.

A6 planners are hard to come by, and they are a bit small (just taking a look at some in the shop) and ideally I would like something with a weekly layout. B6 notebooks are even better suited to this, but I don't really know of any ones that are in that size. Any help in tracking something that might work would be great

I was even considering printing something and making it myself but that seems a bit tricky

5 Comments
2024/10/29
21:15 UTC

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Basic but classic.

5 Comments
2024/10/29
20:41 UTC

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Louise Carmen question: how many characters do you get to engrave?

I see on their website forms you only get 10 characters, but on other people’s books that they’ve posted here, on IG, or TikTok, they’ve definitely had more than 10 characters engraved.

I have 0 plans on traveling anytime soon… so I won’t be able to go in person, but I see you can make a video appointment. Does anyone know if they give you more characters on the video appointment and maybe their website form just isn’t cut out for that kind of customization?

3 Comments
2024/10/29
18:20 UTC

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What's an easy way to make custom notebooks (for gifts)?

Not Christmas gifts, but with the winter holiday coming up, I'm going to meet up with my siblings for the first time in a while, and I'd like to give notebooks to my siblings with covers that I've drawn myself with inside jokes on them. Etsy has custom journal covers, but they're all leather and a bit too fancy for the cartoons I have in mind. I suppose I could draw it on paper and stick it onto some notebook, but I worry that would look sloppy.... what are some easy (and not bank-breaking) ways to get three funny notebooks?

2 Comments
2024/10/29
00:49 UTC

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