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Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

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Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

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Post by mihaic »

Honestly, I now think most people with a Moleskin are doing it primarily for show. They do have nice quality paper, so it's not really a bad choice, only could be better depending on what your exact needs are.

For work I ended at Maruman Mnemosyne and I'm always happy with them. It's a Japanese brand with great paper, nice ergonomics of easily fitting a pen in their spire and plenty of combinations of size and grid pattern.

Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

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Post by memset »

Fascinating! I myself am partial to the Muji lay flat notebooks.

Question: how can I find a printer to make my own? I run a small business making staff paper notebooks. I want to make lay flat, thread + tape bound ones. How can I find a printer that can help me replicate? (I also want to launch a line of cheap mead-like notebooks, but similarly have trouble figuring out how to get those done.) most places will do spiral, wire-o, or saddle stitch with essentially copy paper but I’d like to be able to make these more specialized items.

Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

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Post by kwhitefoot »

My rule of thumb when reading a headline that says "How xx did yy." Is to always wonder "Did xx do yy?"

There doesn't seem to be anything in the article to suggest that these particular notebooks are anything other than fashion accessories and Veblen goods, certainly nothing to suggest any kind of conquering of the "Digital Era".

Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

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Post by Hamuko »

mihaic wrote: post #11

Honestly, I now think most people with a Moleskin are doing it primarily for show. They do have nice quality paper, so it's not really a bad choice, only could be better depending on what your exact needs are. For work I ended at Maruman Mnemosyne and I'm always happy with them. It's a Japanese brand with great paper, nice ergonomics of easily fitting a pen in their spire and plenty of combinations of size and grid p…

I got a Moleskine because it seemed to be the nicest thing available in the bookstore when I needed a notebook. Got a small one with fire red cover to write my scratch codes.

(The hope is that whenever I am actually locked out of my accounts and need to find a scratch code in panic, that red notebook is gonna catch my eye faster than any other colour.)

Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

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Post by ashton314 »

vr46 wrote: post #8

Leuchtturm paper bleeds like a napkin, so hopeless. Moleskine works. Hobonichi rules.

What are you writing with?

I write with a Lamy Al-Star EF nib and use take-sume black ink from Pilot; Leuchtturm doesn't bleed at all; doesn't feather either. Moleskine doesn't work nearly as well for fountain pens—too much feathering.

Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

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Post by oezi »

I think the notebook itself is secondary to the system employed for note taking. For me bullet journaling changed what I do inside a notebook roughly 10 years ago. Today I have moved back to scratch-your-own-itch digital tool to manage a bullet journal with markdown syntax: https://github.com/coezbek/rodo

Re: Business Moleskine Mania: How a Notebook Conquered the Digital Era

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Post by threatofrain »

Ya'll may also want to check out Midori¹, a favorite of the journaling community. There's also Northbooks², a small American company. And Nanami Paper³ if you want to try out quality paper in the ultra-thin direction.

[1]: https://md.midori-japan.co.jp/en/products/mdnote-cotton/

[2]: https://gonorthbooks.com/

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Cafe-Note-Tomoe-River-Journal/dp/B073...

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