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This has been my default notebook for years. Despite trying other prettier or more interesting notebooks, I always return to the midori within a few weeks. The paper is soft and rarely smudges. The grids are not too big and not too small. You can buy separate covers (leather or vegan) that protect the pages from bending or wetting.
Aug 26, 2024
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someone recommended this notebook on PI a few months ago and I've been loving it. about to buy another and wanted to share the love
Nov 1, 2024
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A while ago, I recommended “Handwritten notes & diagrams“, which I fully stand by, but in that rec I linked a cheap little field notes book, which I’ve since graduated from. This MD notebook is the perfect solution to all handwriting endeavors. The spine is flat and stitched across (“~ Codex binding ~“) so every page lies flat while you write in it, and in the corner there’s a little tear-off edge so you can always easily go back to where you left off. The pages are a nice thick material and a beautiful cream color. I use it to sketch out ideas, plan my PI recs, keep a schedule, and jot down whatever’s on my mind.
Apr 5, 2022
perfect size, perfect smoothness, perfect binding, perfect paper color, perfect for morning pages
Sep 2, 2024
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No screen Sundays. If I want to listen to music its CDs or radio. If I want to watch a movie, no I don’t. If I want to see a friend, I will make plans with them on Friday or Saturday to meet up. As a result, I read more, write more, and sit with questions like “did Citizen Kane‘s 50 year winning streak in the Sight and Sound critics choice survey end in 2012 or 2022? When did Stephen Merritt come out? Whats the etymology of Whitsun?“
This is something that I have practiced off and on for many years but I’ve been doing it every week since December and I love the way that it just allows me one day of true freedom and rest.
Jan 22, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
My calendar this year has 52 of these week at a glance pages but I don’t think that way. So, I've been inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delighs to start recording the little moments and sensations that bring me joy throughout the day. An analog pi.fyi, if you will.
heres some of what I have so far:
- Waking up to the sound of my upstairs neighbor‘s footstep. It sounded nostalgic. Felt like company.
- Strawberry jam
- feeling tender for strangers: their lips, nail colors, their small wrists. Thinking of all the lives we hold gently.
- A young girl bought an LP at the bookstore just before I left. She stroked its cover with love
- Green tiles —the mint shade always makes me think of Jancie
- Charlie’s little bop and punch dancing to some German language punk
- lunch with Katherine, curry Brussels sprouts
- small talk at the photo studio. The photographer's brother was named after their dad, stole his identity, bought jet skis.
Jan 13, 2025