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Laura Jane Roland's avatar

I love this. I too believe the Leuchtturm and Uniball are magic together. Perfection.

I have journaled pretty regularly since I was in middle school, so I've used a variety of things over the years, and journaled for different purposes at different points in my life. I had chunky Miquelrius notebooks with graph paper forever as sort of a diary/commonplace book (before I knew what a commonplace book was) but then waffled around between Moleskines and Leuchtturms for several years, and have now settled comfortably in to Archer and Olive dot grids for my journaling. I like that I can add some liquid media to the pages and it's not destroyed. I don't keep a commonplace book/notebook really anymore, unless you consider the notes app in my phone. Which is sad, now that I think about it.

I just started keeping sketchbooks regularly. Right now, I love Royal Talens for their affordability, and Stilman and Birn for their durability. And, while my goal in keeping a sketchbook originally was to work on my art practice exclusively separate from journaling, I've been wanting to add words to the sketchbooks. But, like you said, any piece of paper can be there for you at any time, for whatever you need!

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Paula's avatar

This is exactly the stuff I love. So, I have a journal that I mostly use to sort through my thoughts or write down noteworthy stuff. Sometimes I roughly sketch out something that resonated recently. I’m not always consistent with it and keep telling myself that I’ll get more consistent and that’ll last for a month max, lol. Them I have my notebook that I use as a planner. This is the first year I have my calendar digitally but I can’t fully skip paper entirely and bought a blank notebook that I made into a scrapbook/ bullet journal/ tracker / monthly and weekly planner. Every month gets a collage as cover and I have lists to track the books I read, movies I watch, write down books I want to read and movies and shows I want to watch. It’s so fun to use. My therapist also told me,e to keep a dream diary and that’s a tiny notebook next to my bed filled with bullet points and my weirdest dreams. Last but not least I recently started a common place book for random learnings to have them all in one place. Oh, and I have now two notebooks with notes from all my workshops regarding my work, so I can always look things up again!

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