As most people know, I have used and depended upon the large Moleskine notebooks for the past five years. I take them to work — into committee meetings, into the classroom, into my office — and I take them home. I have taken them out into the field, and I have taken them on both business trips and pleasure trips. Everything goes into them. And when you depend upon such a one thing, like a good pen, you don’t lose it.
A collection of Moleskine notebooks on a shelf in my study.
A photograph taken for my recent post on
At this point in collection of habits and practices, I have just about stopped thinking about what notebook I use. It’s going to be a Moleskine with graph paper. (I am not so good at drawing that I work that well without the aid of lines, and lots of them.)
Still, a lot of lines can crowd the page, and so when I came across someone crowing the benefits of using a new line of notebooks from Sweden called Whitelines, I was suspicious that it was yet another Lifehacker or 43folders fan spending more time fussing with the tools of the trade than in the actual practice of trading — whatever that trade may be.1
Whitelines Comparison
Color me surprised — excuse the pun. Not only are the pages more readable but the notebooks themselves are cheaper than Moleskines and they come in the standard European sizes2 and the company is committed to having a zero carbon footprint.
The full line of notebooks is available on Amazon. I use the A5 sized hardbound notebook.
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Okay, true confession, I will almost always take the time it requires to waste to try using any kind of paper with Seyès Ruling. ↩
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May I just take a moment to ask why hasn’t North America moved to such international standards as, say, the metric system and the sensible paper standards like A3, A4, A5 et cetera? ↩