r/pocketnotebooks

I've been lucky enough to visit Tokyo and Ha Noi over the last year. I discovered Uniqlo in Japan, and always regretted only buying a few items of clothing when I was in Tokyo. Then, a few weeks ago I was exploring Ha Noi and discovered a Uniqlo store there. I bought two Jean-Michele Basquiat t-shirts and brought the shopping bag home with me to use to make a notebook as a memento of my travels to these two amazing cities.

My 20th Anniversary Traveler's Company Notebook arrived. Cool little wallet Notebook

I decided to make Earth Day notebook covers using some awesome NASA imagery. The river delta design was from Earth Day 2020 and the Earthrise picture/quote is from this year with Artemis II!

I’ll put some Rhodia dot grid put inside of these beauties on Friday.

You can get your own posters from NASA, I’ll drop the link in a comment. Or just search “NASA Earth Day Posters” and you should be able to find these and others.

First Field Notes finished! I’ve been keeping a pocket notebook for a year now, but kinda dropped out of the habit after I chose a super uncomfortable notebook for myself and haven’t even noticed how it limited me. That’s until I was gifted a knockoff version of Field Notes. I became obsessed and knew I’m gonna continue with original ones. And here I am, some time later, finishing my first one and getting fancy with cute covers! Yay!

I've been using this system since January. Will start each month with a calendar. Since I'm not that everyday writing type of person, I just point out key moment for each day. And then I'll write whatever ideas about the day, no need to force yourself. Add on some sketch, stickers or collage should be okay. Cheers !!!

Thank you for all the interest and words of encouragement! I will be selling these over at r/pen_swap (along with other hopefully interesting things) soon.

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I've included a screen recording of how winners were determined. Winners: please DM me your full mailing address!

2 Winners from US/Canada (188 entrants including a few that I assumed this to be the location for): u/maxwells789 and u/disposable-assassin

1 Winner from "Other" Locations (47 entrants): u/NinjaRanga

Once again, thank you everybody!

My biggest hobby is going out and finding, recording, and drawing things I find in the woods. Mainly salamanders snakes and bugs, but occasionally flowers/plants. I’ve always just used a sketch book or a personal journal but I needed aiming small enough to fit in my pocket, but bigger than a field notes or pocket book. I also wanted it to be water resistant and have graph paper. I was leaning towards a trackers note book because I also wanted to put some pocket guides in that I could change out depending on the day.

The Yerba bag had a plastic-y wrap on it that makes it pretty water proof, then I put in some graph paper with a needle and thread for charts, logs, notes, and sketches. Then, using rubber bands off of salad greens, I made a travelers notebook style holder for field notes and guides which doubles as a pen holder. Finally I added a rubber band to hold it shut. I’m thing about sewing on a button closer, but the rubber band works fantastic for now :)))))

Thanks for reading my yapping!!!

✅️ Staple Day

✅️ Stoic Jornal Quote & Prompt (I miscopied the quote)

✅️ Next notebook on deck.

...Actually a pretty nice little Saturday...

I need some help choosing which notebook cover I use for each day of the week! I think yellow for Sunday, feels right. But what about all the other days?!?! Blue Monday? Wine Wednesday? HELP 🙏 (Midori MD all day every day) Portfolio

Another one

Made myself pocket notebook which is currently used as my daily tracker. Also, cover artwork is my own work as well.

Years ago I fell in love with fliptop spiral bound but the 3x5 was too small, and the 4×8 was close to perfect but not if you ever wanted a case, pen holder.. anything beyond book.

So I pulled the trigger on custom books, they're 3.5x6 and are just big enough for comprehensive note taking. The advantage of a system like this is that now I can ship these to Etsy leatherworkers, and I can have what they design for standard sizes, fabricated for my custom ones. I'm just breaking it in now.

Out: Bones of the Hand

In: Join the Brave

Took just over a month to finish my first pocket notebook. 30 days of Stoic journaling prompts to try to build the habit.

PS: The Zebra SARASA Grand is the cat's ass! This one has a Pentel EnerGel .3mm refill and has quickly become my favorite.

I am another Pocket Cache tester, and my goal was to stick it in the pocket of my ESD smock at work and give it a good couple weeks getting written in, thread lock stained, leaned on, and generally rubbed to fuzziness inside the pocket as I worked.

WELP.

It spent a few days with me at work, and then Friday it went into a rear pocket and off I tooted to go home and pack for a fishing trip. I figured I’d use it for my pack list. Instead it stayed in my rear pocket all the way until after I went wading further than intended and wound up waist deep, THEN I remembered the notebook. This lake is halfway salty and alkaline as heck, and not great for paper. But you know what? Check out how well it took it! Look at this, this little notebook was throughly SOAKED. Sure the fountain pen ink ran and bled everywhere (except some pink ingredient) and there are some warps, but really that’s AWESOME.

Overall, the pages are deliciously thick. I was only able to get ink bleed through with a Sharpie marker and with a fountain pen if I scribbled in the same spot for a bit. Included in the photos are some random doodles, my writing media test, and some of the fountain pen ink that did some traveling while the book was soaked. The cover also faired very well. I’m tickled by the space program themed cover layout and the matching text on the interior, an excerpt about ablative heat panels. 🤓

I also got a variety pack of fun pages to play with. I know, I asked for hex grid and haven’t used one yet. It’s for a geometric optical illusion I wanted to draw, but then during my trip I accidentally closed the tab and can’t find the illusion any more. The printing on each page is very fine and still perfectly readable. Dot grids, graph paper, hex graph, note lined, and some layouts I don’t have names for. Neat neat neat!

Would I buy another? YES.

Paging: u/InkStainedLeather, to the front desk please.

I've spent the last week in Vietnam. Before coming here I was looking for interesting stationery shops to visit while I was in Ha Noi. Came across a tiny, tucked away store. They make amazing genuine leather notebook covers in Traveler's size as well as pocket size (passport), and inserts for both sizes. I use my own homemade pocket notebooks and reached out to them to hear if they could make me a custom size leather cover for my notebooks. I provided the exact dimensions I needed and they were happy to make it for me. They were super helpful, letting me choose the leather cover color and how many inserts my cover would house (I went with 4 inserts). Paid and was able to collect my custom made cover while I was in Ha Noi last week.

I could not be happier. By far the coolest travel souvenir I have from my travels in Vietnam.

I’m a tester for Pocket Cache notebooks. It’s met all of the expectations and then some.

First off, the paper quality is very good. I’ve used everything from fountain pens, gel pens and sharpies and it has handled everything with ease and has zero feathering, bleed through or ghosting. The better paper does make the notebook slightly thicker than Field Notes, but it is worth it to have a smooth writing surface.

The variety of layouts that u/inkstainedleather has provided are fun. I’ve only used the dotted line and dots so far, but the spacing is ideal for my handwriting.

Check these notebooks out if you get a chance!

Daily rider with Moleskine soft cover pocket notebook and Drehgriffel nr.2.

Picked this leather notebook cover while in UK. Loving it ever since.