Ink Bottle Series – New From Dudek Modern Goods — The Clicky Post
The three new products are part of the Ink Bottle series: The Main, The Writer, and The Workspace. The goal was to create elegant desk pieces that allow you to keep your favorite ink(s) close at hand as well as pens and possible notebooks.
These look fantastic! I’m putting one on my Father’s Day list.
The perfect surface for writing | Marketplace.org
This is great! A brief interview with friend of the site J. Robert Lennon about his current favorite notebook, The Seven Seas Writer (which he has also covered here before).
Carbo – Handwriting in the Digital Age from Creaceed on Vimeo.
Carbo is before anything else about handwriting. For people who love using pen and paper.
Our goal was to make a simple and approachable app that would take the essence of handwriting, and at the same time would allow useful digital-world features (cloud storage, tags, annotations, styling…).
I think something like this works better for drawings, diagrams, or sketches than for handwriting but, still, a compelling options for people who may have need.
How This Tokyo Bookstore Made Me Fall Back In Love With Print
The longer I spent roaming the stacks, the more I became convinced that this store holds the key to understanding that deeper connection. I also felt like I was falling back in love with the printed word myself, which came as something of a shock?—?I’m a self-confessed, early-adopting, SIM card-swapping travel geek, currently on my seventh Kindle. This was not a nostalgic, Luddite moment, but a response to five specific principles that became increasingly clear to me as I wandered, browsed, read, and reflected.
“Letter writing is probably the most beautiful manifestation in human relations, in fact, it is its finest residue.” — Virginia Woolf
These are are so beautiful, it would be hard to feature only one.
Since early this year, I have been compiling a Commonplace book I’ve called Core. The idea was taken and slightly modified from one Shawn Blanc floated called Core Curriculum. The idea is to develop a book of core knowledge, passages, articles, books, quotes, recipes, instructions, and conversations that have shaped us, helped us, taught us, had deep meaning, or otherwise inform the core of who we are and what we believe. This is a living document, formed slowly and intentionally, and one meant to be reviewed every year or more often as needed.
I have found the very act of compiling this book to be enlightening and refreshing. I am, of course, writing it by hand. Therefore, when I wish to add a passage from a book, a quote, or a favorite poem — anything that is not my own — I must transcribe it. To make sure I get it right, I force myself to do so slowly, making sure to capture every punctuation and nuance, doing my darnedest not to err.
What I have found is that this process allows me to see these things I thought I knew in a way I may not have before. For instance, I notice a semicolon my eyes had rushed past before and now a sentence has a whole new meaning. A poem I remembered being about one thing, once written out in my own hand, now takes on a different meaning.
In all, it is a practice I wholeheartedly recommend. What it amounts to is in many ways a "users guide" for living an intentional life.
And, for those wondering about the notebook, it is a MUJI High Quality, Easy Open, Ruled, A6
Football commentary cheat sheets
Nick Barnes is a football commentator for BBC Radio Newcastle. For each match he does, Barnes dedicates two pages in his notebook for pre-match notes, lineups, player stats, match stats, and dozens of other little tidbits.
Jeepers! These are amazing.
Why I Journal (And Why You Should Too) – Productivityist
There are many reasons to keep a journal. Here are just a few reasons why keeping a journal can help you in ways you’ve never considered.
Some great reasons from our friend Mike. If you don’t keep a journal, perhaps one of the reasons will resonate and inspire you to do so.
Moleskine Tool Belt – Moleskine ®
Inspired by carpenters, architects and plein-air artists who attach their toolkits to their waists, the Tool Belt is designed to attach to the cover of a Moleskine notebook. It consists of several compartments for pens, devices or reading glasses. Insert the objects that follow you around the office, studio or around town, so you don’t drop anything important and lose your ideas when you’re on the move.
Looks very useful. Also, no reason one couldn’t use this on a similarly sized non-Moleskine notebook. I’m picking one up for sure.
In a Mother’s Library, Bound in Spirit and in Print – NYTimes.com
Over the years, I’ve gone back and forth over the merits of print versus digital books so many times, it’s as if I were in an abusive relationship with myself. But my mother’s passing and the sentimental value of her library have finally put an end to that debate in my head. It’s not that one is superior to the other. They each have their place in this modern world.
Such a wonderful and poignant essay. But this particular part stood out to me. I, too, read a mix of paper and digital books and each have their purpose, place, and advantages. There is no “better”, only “also”.