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Levenger has some “heavenly” notebooks for journal keeping

NEWS – These beautiful notebooks have celestial-themed covers, which would make them a perfect gift for the astronomer in your life.  Each notebook is 5.5″ x 0.25″ x 7.25″ and has 96 pages of 80-gsm ivory paper.

One notebook has lined paper and the other has grid paper.  The celestial images on the covers are taken from the Cavallini archives.You’ll get a set of two notebooks for $14.00.  The Celestial Notebooks can be purchased at Levenger.

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Levenger has some “heavenly” notebooks for journal keeping originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 7, 2018 at 8:15 am.

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Add a whiteboard to your phone or laptop

NEWS – It’s not exactly a whiteboard, because you write on it with ballpoint pens, but Notepad adds a writing space to your phone or your laptop for quick notes.  When you want to clear up the board for new notes, simply erase it using any eraser.  It’s like keeping a paper pad at hand, but better, because there’s no waste with Notepad.

Notepad has an adhesive back, so it can adhere to a phone, laptop, or tablet.  There are special cases designed to fit the iPhone X or the iPhone 8.  If you don’t have one of these phones, choose from a smaller rectangle (2.5″ x 2.8″) or a larger rectangle (2.7″ x 3.5″) for use with your device, with or without a case.

Notepad is $10.00 for either case or either size rectangle.  It will ship on October 7.  Use the code WHOWRITESTHISSTUFF for 15% off your next order.  Go to the ILOVEHANDLES website to order.

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Add a whiteboard to your phone or laptop originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 4, 2018 at 4:47 pm.

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Take well-constructed notes in this blueprint-paper notebook

NEWS – When I was in college – and even now, if I’m honest – I loved using graph paper for taking notes.  I loved the close spacing so I could pack a lot of info on a single sheet of paper.  And I was a chemistry major who took a lot of math classes, so I’m not ashamed to say I just love the look of graph paper.  These BLU Notebooks take grid paper to a new level by giving it the distinctive blue color of blueprints – but without the smell of ammonia that actual blueprints have.

BLU Notebooks are filled with acid-free, FSC- and SFI-certified paper.  The paper has a smooth finish that still has a velvety feel of actual blueprint paper.  The grid is a 10:1” grid within a finer 2:1″ grid.  Although I’m not fluent in paper-speak, the paper also has 160m text / 4 points of thickness.  The pages aren’t quite traditional notebook size at 8.25” X 11”.  The notebook has cardboard covers and a spiral binding, so it can lay flat.

BLU says you should use an opaque white or bright coloured gel or paint pens for a true blueprint appearance,  but standard ballpoint pens and other writing instruments will work.  Each notebook comes with a Sakura White Gelly Roll 10 Bold Gel Pen to get you started.

Each BLU Notebook is $16.39 USD.  Shipping from Canada is $4.50 USD.  Order your notebook from the BLU Notebooks website.

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Take well-constructed notes in this blueprint-paper notebook originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 3, 2018 at 8:00 am.

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Add a pen holder to any book, notebook, or journal

NEWS – Digging around for a pencil or pen when you need to write a quick note is very frustrating.  And it’s always nice to keep your favorite pen with your journal, but you can break the spine or mess up pages if you try keep a normal pen inside the journal as if it were a bookmarker.  With the Peleg Design Clippen, you can easily keep a pen or pencil clipped to the top of a notepad or to the cover of a notebook so it’s always at the ready.

The Clippen looks like a giant paperclip.  It’s made of metal, and it measure  2.83″ x 0.74″ x 0.31″.  Unlike a normal paperclip, this one has a ridge in the front that’s perfect to slip a pen under.

The Clippen is a perfect gift for all the students, journal keepers, or paper list makers in your life.  At $8.95, it may be the perfect stocking stuffer for Christmas this year.  Get yours at Animi Causa.

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Add a pen holder to any book, notebook, or journal originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 24, 2018 at 10:00 am.

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Baron Fig Wander Dream Journal review

REVIEW – Are you the type of notebook or journal user who likes to have a separate notebook for different subjects or topics like travel, daily journal, tasks, etc? How about a journal that’s dedicated to recording your dreams. But, not dreams for your future, I’m talking about the dreams you have when you’re asleep. Baron Fig’s new Wander Dream Journal is a journal just for that task. Let’s check it out.

What is it?

The Baron Fig Wander Dream Journal is a 192-page hardbound notebook that has been specially designed to make it easy to record the dreams that you have during the night.

Design and features

The Wander Dream Journal is a 5.4″ x 7.7″ cloth-bound book that is dark blue with silver stars and a moon stamped into the front and back covers.

The journal has rounded corners and a grey elastic band that can be used to secure the top cover.

Each notebook has 192 pages of acid-free fine grain 90gsm paper that’s a light cream color.

When you open the front cover, you’re greeted with a lively geometric design and a blank area where you can write your name and contact info should you lose the book, or dates that the book covers, etc.

You’ll have to flip a couple pages before you get to the actual journal area of the notebook.

You’ll find a quick start guide at the beginning of the book that explains the page’s outer edge “gadgets”… at least that’s what I’m going to call them.

They say that the best way to remember your dreams is to document them as soon as you wake up. The Gadgets on each page help you do that by including things like emoticons for your mood during your dream, your sleep quality, when your dream took place in history, if your dream was in color or in black and white, the viewpoint of the dream, and type of dream.

Then the 2-page layout gives you a whole page to write about what happened in the dream on the left and a place to draw and interpret what the dream might have meant on the right side.

Notice at the top of the left page that there’s a place to circle the day of the week and add the current date. This dream journal has all the bases covered.

What I like

  • 2-page layout for each dream
  • Lots of info to record about each dream
  • Attractive book
  • Lay flat design

What needs to be improved

  • The book isn’t a standard size, so it would be nice if they offered one that was A5 sized just so it would be the same height as other journals on a bookshelf

Final thoughts

The Baron Fig Wander Dream Journal is a nicely made notebook that has all the features that someone would want in a journal. It has acid free pages, a lay-flat design, ribbon bookmark, and an elastic closure. But then they add extra features to the pages to help you document each dream. All in all, this is a nicely designed dream journal. The only thing missing is a pen with a built-in red light so you can write your dream in the dark without bothering your sleeping partner or wrecking your night vision.

Price: $22.00
Where to buy: Baron Fig
Source: The sample for this review was provided by Baron Fig.

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Baron Fig Wander Dream Journal review originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 21, 2018 at 9:26 am.

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