The Postalco notebook A5 is a high-end, spiral-bound notebook with a pressed cotton cover and a lie-flat design. The notebook has been made since 2004 and has become quite a classic in the paper world.
Postalco Notebook A5
Tomoe River 52 gsm Loose Leaf Paper
Tomoe River 52 gsm Loose Leaf is the standard way to buy Tomoe River paper. It’s a high-quality, industrial-grade paper that does an amazing job of showing off fountain pen ink.
Maruman Croquis Diary Sketchbook
The Maruman Croquis Diary Sketchbook is a portable sketching book that is composed of 15 sheet of calendar paper alongside 65 blank pieces of sketching paper.
Baron Fig Vanguard Softcover Notebook
The Vanguard Softcover is a series of notebooks from Baron Fig. They are reasonably priced, high quality cahier-style notebooks that sell for about $5 each. The Vanguard is sold in packet of three.
Quo Vadis Habana Notebook
The Quo Vadis Habana is a fountain pen-friendly hardcover notebook with exceptionally smooth paper.
Kokuyo Soft Ring Notebook
The Kokuyo Soft Ring is a small, light notebook that uses plastic, flexible rings for its binding, instead of a wire. This might sound like a weird idea, but it’s both ingenious and quite practical.
Moleskine Classic Notebook
The Moleskine Classic is, as the name suggests, the standard Moleskine. The Classic is a notebook with 240 pages. It is one of the most common and easy to find of all premium notebooks. It’s designed to be the perfect everyday notebook and journal.
Maruman Mnemosyne Word Cards
Maruman Mnemosyne Word Cards are essentially a set of flash cards that are bound together with a single snap-lock metal ring. They gained popularity with fountain pen users when they started to be used for testing and cataloging fountain pen ink.
Muji Word Cards
Many people lament the early death of the Maruman Mnemosyne Word Book and have since adopted the Col-o-ring ink testing notebook. While this is a fine option, Muji has a much more affordable product for sale that you might be able to buy locally.
Col-o-ring Ink Testing Book
The Col-o-ring Ink Testing Book is a ring of high-end paper that helps fountain pen lovers keep track of their ink catalog. It’s something you could do on your own, with all sorts of different paper, but Col-o-ring has done such a nice job with this book that it’s become quite a popular product.
Baron Fig Nomad Sticky Notes
The Baron Fig Nomad Sticky Note are a 3″ x 3″ sticky note with a grid pattern printed on them. They are a direct competitor to yellow sticky notes, which are most popularly sold as the 3M Post-It notes.
Lamy Booklets
In August 2019 Lamy announced that the company would start to sell paper. This was the first such release in the company’s history. One of the offerings is a 3-pack of softcover notebooks that Lamy calls their Booklets.
Field Notes Memo Books
Field Notes, are simple, super popular memo books. They are generally sold in 3.5″ x 5.5″ sized notebooks and 48 pages in graph, ruled, and plain paper decorations. The brand is well known for its limited edition runs and many cover options.
The most standard, most true to the original form, Field Notes notebook is the “Original Kraft.” It’s still sold today in 3-packs for about $10.
Hobonichi Techo Avec
The Hobonichi Techo is one of the best-selling Japanese planners every year, including 2019. It’s a main competitor to the Traveler’s notebook, with some distinctive advantages and disadvantages when the two are compared, including the use of Tomoe River Paper, which will make or break the Techo for some people. The Avec is the half-year model, so it’s sold in January-June and July-December for each year.
The Avec is sold in the A6 size, with the Avec A6 being one of the most affordable Hobonich Techo planner, at a retail price of 1100 JPY.
MIO Paper
This is the paper used in the Kokuyo Campus High Grade Notebook. MIO is said to the the best (or at least the most expensive) paper sold in any Campus notebook, but nothing else is explained about it.