The Moleskine Art Sketchbook is a notebook in the Moleskine Classic style, but with heavyweight paper. It’s designed for sketching, drawing, and other artwork.
Moleskine Art Sketchbook
Tru Red Expert Guidance Collection Journals
The Expert Guidance Collection is a family of journals from Staples’ in-house Tru Red brand which offers note-taking tips and techniques printed right inside.
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Cosmo Air Light Paper
Cosmo Air Light is a fountain pen-friendly paper manufactured but the Nippon Paper Industries Co. Ltd.
Kokuyo Thin Paper
Kokuyo Thin Paper is a wonderfully light paper that Kokuyo primarily uses in its planners.
Postalco Notebook A5
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.
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.