Despite the recent hype around digital writing tools and Apple’s new pencils, recent statistics show that designers actually prefer to start out the old fashioned way: with a pen on paper. Like red ...

With a master's degree in education and years of teaching under my belt, I've seen my fair share of notebooks. Some students, school districts, and colleges have made the switch away from paper and ...

I had tried to keep a notebook before. It never worked — it was as if my mind ran out of sentences. Diaries would trail off after a few weeks, and my thought fragments would transition to the Notes ...

When I was 11, I was given a little five-year diary with a lock and key. I wrote the usual pre-pubescent stuff in it, a few lines a day, most days. At 14, I began using steno notebooks, and over the ...