New Journal

02/01/2010 in Uncategorized | 5 comments

Happy February Everyone!   Yesterday I unwrapped a new journal.  I looked back in the green one to see the starting date and it was Dec. 22, 2009.  Seems I used it up pretty quickly.  Lots of ideas over the past 5 weeks or so.

I really like the Hand+Book Journals.  I was a Moleskine user for a while and I still really love them for writing in, but I prefer the H+B for pen and ink, drawing, watercolor and ink wash. Basically, they do it all for me.  The paper has a nice tooth which I like for sketching and writing.  They too have a pocket in the back, and the elastic band.  I have used all sizes put prefer the square ones and the large portrait formats.  I also like these books because they are hand  bound and I can draw across the valley (as opposed to spiral bound).  I do think I could use a bigger book sometimes, maybe an A4 size.  I also like that these books have 128 pages which seems like a good number to me.  If I get a journal with too many pages I get to feeling like I’ll never get through it. I do like the satisfaction of having lots of past journals on the shelf.

If you have a favorite journal let me know in the comments what it is and why you like it.

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  1. Henhouse Pottery’s avatar

    Henhouse Pottery on 02/01/2010 at 3:24 pm

    I love leather bound journals for my sketches and pottery (and all other) ideas. There’s something very serious about leather.

  2. Hope’s avatar

    Hope on 02/01/2010 at 3:29 pm

    Hi Ron. I’ve always carried around a spiral bound journal with me, but now I’m trying something new. I just started using Evernote. I can add notes from any computer or my iphone, and it all stays synced up whenever I log in. Notes can be tagged by topic, and you can also do searches for specific text within notes. It took me a couple of days to come up with a good tagging system and organizational structure. I decided to switch to this kind of note-taking/keeping system so that I could always easily find notes I’ve already written, for referencing or to add information to them. Much easier than having to flip around through a physical journal to find a note. And if I do a sketch on a piece of paper, I can take a snapshot of it and add that image as a note too. So far I can tell that this system will make it much easier to keep track of lists, project ideas and record-keeping for firings, etc.

  3. gary rith’s avatar

    gary rith on 02/01/2010 at 4:40 pm

    I have journals too and tell myself I ought to look back into them sometimes but I never do……

  4. jim’s avatar

    jim on 02/02/2010 at 9:28 am

    damn ron, you filled a journal in 5 weeks. i’ve been writing in my moleskin for years. i’ve never seen one of those H+Bs , i’ll have to check it out.

  5. ron’s avatar

    ron on 02/02/2010 at 2:16 pm

    I have a small leather bound journal that I’ve been afraid to use. It does seem serious. I should think of a nice purpose for it.

    Hope, I looked at the Evernote site. That may be a good place for me to store images of my pots. Thanks for the info.

    I’ve been keeping journals since High School. Up until about 3 years ago they were all written journals. I still have them all, I never go back and read them. I switched to keeping more of a visual journal and I love to go back and look through those. I draw in my book everyday, throughout the day usually.