I was in college when notebooks started to become a problem.
As an English major minoring in art, I was obsessed with Leonardo da Vinci’s journals. In my mind, the consummate artist always had a notebook on them, brimming with nascent ideas and sketches.
So I started dabbling with journals of every kind, from Moleskines to Clairefontaines, no-name notebooks with leather covers and gold edges to ones with cheesy sayings on them prompting me to believe in myself.
But it wasn’t until a few years ago when I started testing notebooks and notepads that I finally discovered my end-all, be-all notebook, the Leuchtturm1917 Hardcover Notebook Classic (A5). It’s the one notebook I actually use up, cover to cover, time and again. It’s the right notebook for my best and worst thoughts, my project plans and research, and everything else I want to keep for posterity. Here’s why.
