r/notebooks

I was quite young when I came across pretty spreads on YouTube and Pinterest of people's bujo and notes. I tried to recreate them but never perfect. Though I always got that dopamine hit but not anymore. Every pretty spread just feels boring and not my type. I am starting to accept messy pages and it's taking time but progress.

Anybody feeling the same thing ?

P.S- This is no hate to those who like pretty spreads these are just my thoughts

I am a big time yapper in my journals. I like to write about every thought I've ever had, the thoughts I have about those thoughts, tangents off those thoughts, and then what I think about that too. I go through a LOT of notebooks lol

I have raging ADHD and I get bored of things super easily and quickly. I was writing in A6 notebooks for a while because they were great for a dopamine hit, I would go through them insanely quickly so I constantly had that new notebook excitement, but eventually I felt like there weren't enough pages. My most recent and current notebook is a thick ass A5 notebook, which I was initially hesitant of because I've never been able to finish an A5 notebook, but I've actually filled up much more than I thought I would, and I think I will finish it, BUT I'm starting to get bored of it and am itching to get a new notebook even though I need to finish this one first.

I feel like the obvious answer is A6, right? But I can only say like 5 things before the notebook is over!!! A5 is nice enough but I get bored too easily and then I'd feel guilty for abandoning the notebook blah blah blah. I wish there was like moleskine expanded notebooks but A6 and fountain pen friendly lol

Edit: thank you for your suggestions!! Reading the replies made me realise I actually do just need to go with the flow & I'm going to just go with what feels right whenever I finish the current one and move onto the next. The B sizes also sound interesting, I will deffo be looking into those. Thanks again! :D

Hello there!

I am searching for a nice and durable handbook for my notes. If possible, I would rather go in person somewhere but I'm also considering online versions.

I've been used Moleskine handbooks for a long time, which I find great and very good looking. Since they were too expensive for me I've switched to Muji notebooks, which are great, and I really like the products of HEMA (dutch store, but I know they have multiple shops), which are insanely cheap and have great sheet-quality.

I am searching for something along these lines, and maybe trying something new.

Any hint or suggestion is definitely welcome!

Hi all.

I really love Midori pad paper. I have both the standard and the cotton one. So naturally the next notebook I bought was a Midori. It took a while to track down a line grid, because they were always out of stock, but I finally managed to get one.

Sadly, I've been a bit disappointed with it. Like I think the paper differs from the pad ones. I even have another Midori notebook that has a grid and it feels somehow better? I'm not sure.

I write on it using 2 Pilot pens; Capless (Vanishing Point) and Falcon. I'm quite fond of the way the Capless feels, because there's some friction I can feel. But the same friction is a pain for my Falcon.

Now I just wasn't to add that my previous notebook was an Endless one (Regalia paper or something like that). And with that one and the same pens and ink I had a totally different experience; my Falcon was great and my Capless was too smooth. It didn't have enough friction and I couldn't get any nice writing in.

Either way, while I had that notebook, I compared it to the Midori pad paper and absolutely love those. I don't understand my dissonance with the pad VS (lined) notebook paper and wanted to ask if some of you felt the same?

How do you store them??? I need some inspiration.

Ideally I'd have a place on my desk for vertical storage. My desk top space is somewhat limited but having a freakin' flat stack of multiple notebooks is starting to drive me nuts.

Photo sourced from Vanness Pen Shop

For those who are unfamiliar, LACONIC is a Japanese brand that makes slim specialty notebooks for different uses, such as the 100 Days notebook above. I really love the paper in these!! Smooth and fountain pen friendly, without being too slick/coated like MD paper can sometime be. Unfortunately they don't make any regular blank/lined/graph notebooks.