One of the most interesting points that our anonymous contest winner raised in her review of the Minister: the length of the day. Since I work long hours (my day starts at 5:30am, ends ~9pm) I also like that the times (8am to 9pm) spanned in the Minister is longer than the average planner, which […]
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Friday review roundup
Happy Friday, everyone! What better way to kick off a winter weekend than with some constructive criticism of Habana notebooks: Azizah at Gourmet Pens compares the new, ivory-paged Habana to its old white-paper counterpart. The verdict: more showthrough on the new Habana with fountain pens, and “even though the ivory paper is satiny smooth, the […]
Help us design a planner for you!
We’re going to create a new planner soon, and we’d like your help… If you have a few minutes to spare, please take this survey and let us know what your preferences are in terms of size, layout, cover, paper, and all the other good stuff. Afterwards, we’ll do our best to incorporate the most […]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
And thanks for being the most creative, opinionated, and inspiring bunch of readers we could ever hope for.
1670: The future of a limited edition
Last year, J. Herbin introduced a color called rouge hematite in honor of their 340th anniversary. It was created as a limited edition, and it did very well for us over the course of the year. Now that it’s 2011, we’re fielding questions about its continued availability. If you’re a fan of rouge hematite, or […]
A fine line or a fat one?
Big books, narrow lines: that’s what the commenters to Karen’s recent post about Journey Books said they wanted. The question also came up on a recent recent FPN discussion, where several people voiced their preference for a narrow ruling. We typically do narrow rulings on small notebooks and larger rulings on a bigger ones, but […]
Back to the future: The 2011 Trinote
In case you missed it on our Twitter and Facebook pages, I wanted to blog about a great post by Laurie on the 2011 Trinote. Around the start 2009, we received a lot of complaints about new changes to the format. By then, it was too late to do anything about the 2010 edition, but […]
Academic year calendars
It’s back-to-school time in the US, and Karen and I have a question for all you students, teachers, and professors: are there any planners you’d like to see in an academic year format? One person emailed us recently to suggest the Space 24, which got us thinking about it. Here are the formats we currently […]
Guest post: Leah reviews the Space 24
It’s not every day I get to introduce a guest blogger with the same name, but this morning’s post comes by way of artist Leah Markov-Lindsey, who’s written a very nice review of the Space 24. Thanks, Leah! I’ve used several planners over the years (Filofax: thin paper, too bulky to carry around; Franklin Covey: […]
How important is a monthly overview?
As long-time readers know, we’re always playing a game of give and take with our planner pages; some people like certain features and want to see them expanded, while others would prefer to swap them for something else — fewer maps in exchange for more notes pages, for example. One thing that came up again […]
