My pocket notebook is my least-formal of my 4 notebooks, so it usually turns out to be my favorite and most surprising notebook to flip through. Here’s a peek inside my latest.
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My 4 notebooks
In Tuesday’s newsletter, I wrote about my four notebooks:
Before I get started, I want to say that this is my system, and I do not necessarily recommend it to others! Writing is my job, so it would make sense that I’d have a bunch of notebooks. My intention with this letter is to be descriptive not prescriptive.
If you’re interested in starting a notebook habit, I encourage you to just buy a notebook or The Steal Like an Artist Journal and write or draw in it every day.
I do not endorse any brands, but if you’d like to try out what I’m currently using here are links to my logbook, pocket notebook, commonplace diary, and diary.
I write in them with all kinds of pens — I’ve got a big list on my gear page.
Here’s a little teaser I posted to Instagram:
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One of the things I try to emphasize is that writing is my job. I don’t think everybody should keep a notebook, and I don’t care if everybody keeps a notebook. Let alone four notebooks! People ask, so this is what I do.
You can read the whole newsletter here.
Notebooks and memory
Today’s newsletter was an excuse to link these three books at my spot on the kitchen table — Roland Allen’s The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, my late summer/fall diary (started on Oahu back in August), and Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Datebook Volume Three, the final installment in his sketchbook series.
It was also an excuse to post these drawings from my sketchbook:
You can read the whole newsletter here: “On memory and notebooks.”
The notebook is where you figure out what’s going on
I saw a trackback to my blog with this quote:
“The notebook is the place where you figure out what’s going on inside you or what’s rattling around. And then, the keyboard is the place that you go to tell people about it.”
Who said that? I thought. That’s pretty good.
It was me. Many years ago!
Still pretty true, although, I also figure out a lot of stuff at the keyboard, too.
(I’m a little less binary than I used to be, which I count as progress.)
3 notebooks
My three notebooks. On the left: my logbook. On the right: my diary. And in the middle, my commonplace diary. (You can take a peek at it in the latest newsletter.)
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