Awesome Stuff: A Notebook For Your Thoughts

from the write-it-down dept

• First up, we've got Furrow Books -- which may be the most straightforward of the bunch. The offer is two different sized basic plain notebooks using high quality paper. The main innovation are differently ruled inserts that you can slip into the notebook if you want to make use of lines (without using lined paper). Nothing fancy, but there's something nice about simple and straightforward sometimes. There are a bunch of early bird $6 pocket-sized notebooks still available, but if you really like the notebooks, the packages that involve multiple notebooks are probably an even better deal. The overall project is a little over 50% funded with over a month to go, so it's likely to surpass the goal pretty easily.
• Next up, we've got the somewhat pretentiously named Da Vinci Notebook (even worse, the "n" in "notebook" is a π in the video, so it reads πotebook -- and, ick, in the description they feel the totally unnecessary need to put a ™ after it). The video itself is a little over the top as well, but none of that means the notebook itself isn't pretty nice. The key innovation here is that the paper is a special kind of paper made from stone -- which they claim is nicer to write on. They also claim it's eco-friendly because there are no trees used, though I'm sure someone out there will ask about the poor stones. Because the paper is stone based, it also has the nice feature of being waterproof. For those of you who like to write underwater -- or at least go swimming with your notebooks. The notebook is also designed so users can add or remove pages, easily, allowing them to insert different versions of the paper, including differently ruled paper, different templates or different sizes -- such as a foldout page. The basic notebook apparently weighs about a pound, so this is a pretty hefty notebook. This project has already shot well past its $4,000 goal and with three and a half weeks left, it will likely be funded a few multiples of that number. The basic notebook will run you about $12, which may seem steep for a notebook, but remember, it's made of freaking stone.
• Finally, we've got Writerase, which goes in a slightly different direction, by making a dry erase notebook. There have been a bunch of dry erase notebooks on Kickstarter over the years, but the concept is definitely pretty useful when done well. Rather than needing new notebooks all the time, you can just erase the stuff you no longer need. Writerase also comes with transparent paper that lets you write on top of other pages without messing them up (they use an example of drawing a calendar frame on one page, placing the transparent page above it and being able to mark up the calendar as necessary. People seem to really like this particular project, as it's surpassed $25,000, well past its $6,500 target, with a week to go.

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