Cutting to the chase - my solution to notating is a passport size journal, which is always present in my cargo pant’s pocket.

If, you desire one, then I would recommend making it yourself - it is just a piece of lather, with some elastic band and paper inserts - but you can buy OG one - if money isn’t a problem to you - from Traverels Comapny.

I might make a tutorial on how to make one.

Bellow you can see a more in-depth retrospection about, why I ended up with such a notebook and why I stayed with it for the past 2 years.

Background

I’m a person who writes and draws more then he needs. I do it to organize my toughs and because I come to like it.

Since in the past, I tied my future with drawing, it was natural that I come across countless tools - created for this or another purpose - that I could use for my needs.

This gave me the opportunity of trying, and by it, choosing tool that I would like to use.

Needs

• persistent - i don’t want to replace it every month or so
• cheep - sometimes you don’t have money on yourself for one reason or another
• comfortable - something small that I could carry with myself anywhere I go

Why not digital

They are countless advantages of using digital format, and even thou, I was always versatile in “computer space”, it had never clicked for me. Typed or handwritten text always felt like something far away, that was hiding in a fog before my cognitive space of mind.

The whole process of taking a pencil or a pen and writing something manually with my hand is a irreplaceable ritual for me.

In fact after I write this text using my computer, I will later print it out and then review it manual on a piece of paper - its a trick that I have learned recently and I’m quite proud of.

My Journey

So at first I started to travel with a simple ~A5 notebook - I always wore a backpack, so at that time it wasn’t an issue for me.

I don’t know why or when, but not forgetting my notebook from my workspace become such an issue for me, that I started to pounder about a solution.

I tried to move to those small pocket size notebook, but for some reasons I never liked them.

Then about a 3 or 2 years ago, I found my father using Traveler’s Notebook. After some discussion about it, he let me borrow it and from that time onwards I never looked back.

I had fallen in love with it. The whole idea of interchangeable inserts made a world of difference to me.

Not only I don’t need to throw out my notebook - on a shelf - after writing in it for a while, but I can store calendar, journal and a sketchbook in one place.

About the first one, back then, I designed an insert, that with few little changes throw the years, I still use to this day.