Notebook : Moleskine 2

Summary :

Type - 18 month Planners.

Paper - Weekly page.

Colour - Mine in Magenta.

Size - A5, 13 x 21 cm.

Useful for - Weekly organizer, thoughts, to-do list.

Use it with - Artline or ballpen.

Page - 18 months pages + back pocket + address book

I like it for its - 18 months long, & the aesthetic value.

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Details :

I've been using it for more than a year, mine would end this Dec 2014. Who ever thought that using 18 months long organizer is better than 12? Moleskine. 

For me, I think the length of this planner is just right. By one year, it looked more than half full, I used almost every single page of this planner. I am an organized person in my works*; I have a full-time job, several freelance jobs, and my small business. So I need to take notes for the weekly activities and update my schedule from time to time. *but my room doesn't reflect me as an organized person at all - I have this terrifying thoughts that if I'm too organized, my OCD will control my life. I read too many real-life OCD experience.

It is quite heavy for my sling bag, because I usually bring 1-2 novels when I go out. So I leave this planner most of the time. I update it weekly or twice a week. Every important things will be written in the planner, so if there are any spies out there that want to go through my life and know important appointments like in those movies you watch, they might find something useful in my planner. Maybe I am planning on capturing the world or I am one of those biggest underrated black-listed dealers, who would ever thought something like that, huh.

One thing I don't really like is the long-sized box for each day because 2 pages are used for 1 week, so I need to write in 3-4 words for one line. I love to write super-lenghty lines of words, and this just gives me limitation before I could even start writing. So I just write everything in short-form and bullet-points. Oh, and I don't like the price too. 

+I don't really understand why they included the address book. No one in our generation really use one anymore, because we can simply use Facebook and they will keep the data. What a waste. 

I love the back-pocket. Every Moleskine comes with back-pocket. So I can put my instax selfies or nice dried leaves that I found in the park or a picture of Hemsworth brothers from a magazine or love letters and postcards. 

Will I be using any other Moleskine's planner after this? Maybe. 

Or maybe I'll try daily planner in petite size.

Notebook : Moleskine 1

Summary :
Type - Set of 3 plain cahier journals.
Paper - Squared/checked
Colour - Kraft brown.
Size - Pocket size.
Useful for - Doodles, writings, short note-takings, questions and thoughts.
Use it with - Artline pen.
Price - Around RM10 for each little notebook.
I like it for its - Paper quality, small-size.

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Details :

I bought these little over-priced notebooks several times over the years now. It is really small, pocket-sized means you can put it in your back pocket, which I really feel convenient. I can put it in my bag and not feel like it takes too much space. 

I use one for my doodles, I use one for my poems and writings, I use one for note-taking. I like the empty brown-colored paper as the book's cover even though I know it will be a little dirty when it is overused. So what I usually do is wrap it with clear-plastic sticker for extra protection after I doodled something on the cover. 

The paper quality is great to be used with small-sized artlines. My personal favorite is Unipin 0.3 and Pilot Drawing Pen 0.5, that I can simply use for doodles and will try my best not to spoil any of the pages - knowing it is very expensive, somehow it motivates me to not make any mistake at all. It doesn't smear. I don't really like to use pencil in these books, because I don't get the satisfying pencil-effect as I get when I use our local Go Palm notebooks.

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I'm not sure whether any of the information is useful, but as an avid notebook user, I really think learning about paper-texture really helped me make everything from doodles and writings to scribbles seem more eye-pleasing, after all I really like to go through all my notebooks over and over again. 

     

Doodle : While in Beijing

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While in Beijing, I managed to take note on things that happened daily. At night, after our long days exploring the city, my brother and I will sit at our bed and scribble away things for the day. It's a bit different from my travelogue ; which became a book that keeps all my little trinkets from those amazing places. This book was more like a visual diary. 

It's a bit of a long post of pictures, so, click on the link to read the whole post ya :D

Doodle : Sketches

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Hello !

I am not lying when I said I doodle a lot. Random small items that I see, quotes that I like, logos that caught my eyes, random sketches in meetings, and such.

A person has ways to express his/her thoughts in various ways. 

These came from 4 different notebooks alone :

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Doodle : Sketches

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Hello!

I usually bring my notebook anywhere, that explains my daily large messenger bag that I ordered from Naydee. Which I truly loved! Her hand-sewn bags are nicely done. If you are planning on buying any hand-made product using fabrics, contact her. I strongly recommend her hand-made products  ❤

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Anyhow, back to my random sketches in my notebooks. It is quite hard for me to maintain using one notebook at one time, resulting many notebooks and sketchbooks on my desk at home! 

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