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Daycraft is a Hong Kong-based stationery company that makes a variety of notebooks and diaries. The nice folks there sent me a batch of samples of their colorful notebooks, which are quite different from anything I’ve reviewed so far. The one that most intrigued me was this, seen here with the plastic wrapping I’d just removed:

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Now here’s a book many of us might like to read! Or write ourselves…

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Imagine buying 100 at a time! From a Flickr user:

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From the Huffington Post:

The thing about opening your mind up to a new story idea is that you once you do it, there’s no going back. All of a sudden, everything seems like it has to do with the new idea. Songs and lyrics and billboards and articles and movies and books and people seem to come at me, out of nowhere, non-stop. It can be hard to breathe. I grab at all these things and try to capture them before they are lost in the noise and shuffle of life, and I do this with little notebooks.

I keep little notebooks everywhere — in my purse, in my car, on my nightstand. My favorite notebooks are the thin, soft Moleskine notebooks that come in colors, now (green and red and pink!) but they are expensive. I reluctantly bought several sets of Moleskine knock-offs at Forever 21 last year for about $1 each, which are nowhere near as inspiring, but they are serviceable.

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A couple of years ago, there was a great post on Design Observer about Michael Bierut’s notebooks:

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Here’s a look at a couple of notebooks I couldn’t resist buying at Kinokuniya, a store in Manhattan that specializes in books, movies, stationery and other Japanese items.
The first is a quite unique notebook, made by Pilot and branded “THE-II” on the front. The cover is a very retro leather-textured plastic:

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Here’s a new brand of notebooks from Japan that I hadn’t heard of before, available at Need Supply Co. I like the stripped-down, utilitarian look.

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Saxon Henry shares some thoughts about notebooks and writing, including these nice images:

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Some nice images from field notebooks shared by four people from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology:

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I loved this post I stumbled across, in which the writer ponders the different notebooks she’s been using for the “morning pages” exercise recommended in The Artist’s Way:

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