I use Levenger disc-bound notebooks, for the lovely leather covers and ease of moving different size pages from one notebook to another. Personally, page count isn’t a major factor for me because I love notebooks and seem to collect a lot of them (oh wait, I’m sure you already realize that. It’s fascinating to me that I tolerate ghosting in this journal but I can’t tolerate it in a normal journal with 80gsm paper. – when the ink from your pen or marker soaks through the paper and appears on the following page or stains the next sheet in the notebook. I’d love to introduce you to our new brand Perfectly Penned, I dont see the FREE A5 JOURNAL COMPARISON SPREADSHEET section. Archer and Olive recently sold out and said that they would not be restocking anytime soon, but even if they did your review leaves me skeptical of buying from them. Many people praise STM and Dingbats over everything. I definitely need to do a review and explore my feelings about the paper.Love your extensive reviews! I just wanted to help others avoid that disappointment.Sidenote, my fiance is from the 989 too. I’d love to hear what you have to say!Great review! that’s a different story. Anyways, I’m very happy with my rhodia (very very minimal ghosting/no bleeding) but I may try one of these suggestions for my next one! Uncoated paper allows ink to soak in and dry quickly. Several brands seem similar (Paperage, Dingbat, etc.) (And it would be nice if it lays flat.) It has 68 GSM Tomoe River paper, which holds up to watercolor (I’ve given it a workout in a pocket-sized notebook) and displays a level of ghosting with fountain pen inks that is acceptable to me. Thank you sooo much!I am just finishing with my first bullet journal, the Leuchtturm1917 and am wanting so much more out of my next journal. I watched review videos on YouTube, I read reviews on individual notebook listings on Amazon, and I even scoured all of the bullet journal guru websites to find out which journal they were using.What I found was that almost universally everyone was using the Leuchtturm1917 dotted notebook and they loved it beyond measure. I changed to this from my Leuchttrum1917, because I didn't really like that one and it has now changed it's purpose by being my doodling, brainstorming and diary book. Lemome Notebook. Available on Etsy or through Hippo Noto, I brush letter, use wet writing fountain pens without any issues. I already have that notebook in my hot little hands and my preliminary review is that I like it very much.Pam–could we be best friends and sit and play with pens and notebooks all day? However, because the ink doesn’t absorb into the paper, it sits on top of the paper and needs to dry on its own before it becomes permanent – which is what caused the ink to smear easily. You can’t go wrong with Scribbles or Pentalic. – Then I discovered the Paperblanks Flexi Journals in Midi size and they are also turning out to be difficult to get my hands on. I love it, although I’ve been thinking about trying Dingbats or STM next time. I said “little”) I don’t believe I will ever buy a notebook with anything less than 100gsm paper (with only a couple rare exceptions noted below). I actually found that virtually all hardcover journals with a sewn binding opened flat and stayed put. I’m glad you like it though! YouTubers and bloggers were so excited about how great these notebooks were, so I jumped on that bandwagon too. I choose not be restricted by that. Thank you for such a detailed and thorough journal review!!
:-) I'm trying to decide on which journal to use for 2019! !Something weird is going on with a couple brands that I either purchased and had planned to purchase more of or just planned to purchase. This includes a collection of the LOL!]Hello! Select your preferred country. Have you heard/used any of the new Archer & Olive journals?
I think I will wait a bit and see what shakes out. I currently use a Bondibook from Amazon. I truly appreciate your feedback and insight. I also have the Victoria’s Journals Kraft from Aliexpress coming on the slow boat from China Its pages are 120gsm but the cover seems to be very, very thick card rather than a proper hardback so I’ll have to see how it holds up once I start using it.Thank you for this! It has 160gsm paper apparently and the covers are cute. If you want to get technical about the etymology of the words, is derived from the French term jour – meaning day. Highlights are a fountain pen proof paper, tons of features including numbered pages, perforated pages, index, keys, bookmarks, pockets, pen … But that seems like splitting hairs here, so we’re just going to pretend they mean the same thing for now. !Hi Rheana – I’m actually working on a comparison review of several journals with 160gsm paper. Love your blog by the way. I’ve always carried notebooks but suddenly it had become an everyday necessity. I did not. I hope to help you better understand the notebook brands you already know about and maybe introduce you to some brands you’ve never heard of before. As a reminder, this is an unbiased, unpaid, unsponsored, no-BS review of these notebooks. There are even spiral-bound notebooks in the mix. This usually happens when you have uncoated (matte) paper.has been coated by a polymer mixture to change the quality of the paper itself that impacts the weight, surface gloss, smoothness or reduced ink absorbency. I have never received a free journal or money for my opinion.Moreover, in addition to A5, LT offers a full A4 size journal with 249 pages – something that is insanely difficult to find in other brands (I think does not exist). It seems on their sit they have different covers for different types ofmnotebooks. I’ve been stalking them to see when their new notebooks are ready. It’s really easy to keep on reading. Better than LT (although I do enjoy them) and better (for me anyway) than STM. I also thought the stone book is ridiculous when I saw it advertised. LT and Nuuna and Victoria’s journal that I have used, are not glued to the back, but separated on the spine.Just to add, I was not trying to look down on anybody or anything in my comment, I am not a native english speaker and cannot always finetune the nuances in my text.