Author: Patrick Rhone

In Praise of Pencils – MacSparky Overall, there’s an appealing simplicity to pencils. There’s no cables or batteries or sync issues—you just pick it up an...

Through a Love of Note-Taking, José Naranja Documents His Travels One Tiny Detail at a Time — Colossal From postage stamps to jetliner specifications to items h...

handwritten moods – The Homebound Symphony One of things I most enjoy about doing archival research on writers is the discovery of their handwriting. Some wonde...

Cultural Offering — Memories of The Blue Book I always felt a sense of relief when I turned in my test, dropping it on the desk and exiting room. I don’t rememb...

The Field Notes Thing — 512 Pixels At the end of every year, I publish a photo on Instagram cataloging the Field Notes notebooks I used over the previous 12 mon...