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Building a notebook system that survives a year of Australian work, travel and weather, including when to refill a binding and when to start again.
Journals · 3 December 2024
A full notebook is not always a finished object. Sometimes it wants a new cover, a new stitch, or a decent burial in a tin. A bindery-minded guide for people who are not binders.
Journals · 20 February 2024
Two notebooks that look like the same job and are not. One is a system with a contents page. The other is paper that wants a fountain pen. Here is how we used to choose for people.
Journals · 8 January 2019
January is when our year starts, Monday is not always Monday, and a diary printed for the northern hemisphere will waste your first week. How to buy a dated book that matches this country.
Journals · 14 August 2018
A small stapled book in a back pocket will teach you more about attention than a leather system you leave at home. How to keep a pocket notebook alive in Australian work clothes.
Journals · 1 February 2018
A leather cover, a few refills, and the discipline not to carry an entire stationer on a rubber band. How we used to build travel journals at the Aspley counter.
