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Pen & Paper
This community is all about using pen and paper as a deliberate choice — because handwriting helps memory, deepens learning, sharpens focus, and unlocks creativity in ways screens often can’t. Whether you’re sketching ideas, drafting a to‑do list, or mapping out a semester, the physical act of writing slows things down just enough for the thoughts to really land.
All notebook and calendar types are welcome here: plain bound notebooks, bullet journals, Filofax systems, ring‑ and disc‑bound setups, sticky notes, legal pads, or whatever you throw together.
Privacy matters. With paper you keep control as your notes aren’t tracked, used to train algorithms or so. That sense of ownership makes paper a safe place for brainstorming, personal plans, and messy drafts that you don’t want floating in the cloud.
This is a place to share practical tips, clever layouts, before‑and‑after spreads, and what you’ve learned about staying organized (or unorganized) offline. Post pictures, ask for feedback, swap templates, or just brag about a perfect page.
Come as you are: Neat planner nerds, scrapbookers, list lovers, or anyone curious about slowing down. Bring your spreads, hacks, inserts, index systems, and the little rituals that make your setup work.

Nice leather covers! I really like the notebooks. I also prefer dotted, but square grid is 100% in that light gray paper. Regular grid paper gets so.. "noisy" in lack of a better word from my tired brain.
Do you have a special stapler for the big ones or how do you staple them? :)
Thank you again! :)
The grey paper is from a company called Whitelines. They've been around for over a decade and I don't see them very often. Not too expensive either imo.
As for the stapler, yes it's a "long reach stapler" that works well.
I know some companies sell a saddle stapler specifically to staple the center which I assume work even better.
oh the name was Whitelines. I had forgotten, whoops.
Nice to have a long stapler, with ruler at that!
The saddle staple looks like a great tool if you make a lot of notebooks :D