The Notebookery

A few weeks ago, I was on vacation with my wife and kids.

In my "real life"1, I am a police officer in a specialized unit and have been one of the unit's full-time instructors since early 2022.

I am a huge fanboy of the German stationery brand Leuchtturm1917.1 A few months ago, I wondered about the notebook-price-ratio of each of the different formats LT1917 offers — from A6 to A4+.

Most notebook enthusiasts have heard about the "Extended Mind" concept that David Chalmers and his co-author Andy Clark coined in their 1998 paper on the topic.

I just read an article by one of my favorite writers, Henrik Karlsson, about how his work on his major pieces — which often take him months to finish — benefits from having a small, lesser-known "waste book" or "shit blog" for brain-dumping anything and e…

In I started a "dirt notebook", BearBlogger kwist describes his reluctance to take messy notes in his regular notebooks: "I start cherishing every notebook that I start.

I'm perpetually perplexed by dating/relationship/marriage advice that revolves around the idea of “picking someone that… “ I don't know about you guys, but when I fell in love with my now-wife, I fell.

There is a small number of writers who's work has had an outsized impact on my own thinking (and therefore on my writing, too).

Good writing, as every long-form writer knows, springs into being during the editing and rewriting process.1 The first draft is there to be there.

I've been using physical notebooks for years now.