Weekly Discussion Thread

[annofowlshire]

Comment to tell us about what you've been up to with your journal, planner, or other stationery related items. Tell us about a new pen or a coveted notebook. Consult the hive mind with a problem you've been having. Post a picture! Whatever goes as long as it falls in the realm of journals and planners. Remember, you can always make your own top-level post, too!

(Text from lunabee34)

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Notebook ramble

[annofowlshire]

Okay, another comment. After telling bleodswean about the Traveler’s Notebooks, I got a sudden hankering to pull mine out and see what I was last doing with it. And then I was thinking - is there a place for this alongside my MJ app? And the answer is probably yes. And then I was thinking about new inserts, and went to the site where I usually get them from (from the person who made the leather binder in the first place which is a custom size) and choked when I saw that since I last bought inserts (apparently in 2018), the price had jumped from about £1.50 an insert to £5.75. Holy geez. It’s 17 pages of paper stapled into kraftboard (look, I know there’s more to it than that to make them turn out nicely, but what?).

So then I went on an odyssey to look at the supplies I’d need to make my own. The initial outlay isn’t cheap (long arm stapler, paper guillotine, an edge rounder because I want to), but at those rates it would quickly pay for itself XD

And then I made myself check my drawer, and found I had 8 unused inserts and nearly that again of inserts where I’ve used like 3 pages with some grand purpose before abandoning it.

So, I don’t really need to invest in a bunch of insert-making supplies just yet…

ANYWAY I’m just going to noodle around with the remains of the current inserts, and stop being so grandiose that it must be A Book and see what emerges. AND one thing I’ve come to realize is that it can work with my MJ app because I can take a photo of the pages I want to keep and put it on whatever “project” it belongs to.

Also, there will be stickers.

Re: Notebook ramble

[vriddy]

Wow, that is quite the price jump on inserts :o Nice that DIY/reusing old ones seems to be an option, too... and most importantly: stickers!!! :D

Re: Notebook ramble

[lunabee34]

I'm glad you discovered you already had some inserts you can use!