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Leather travelers notebook11/14/2023 ![]() Some people have a notebook with lined paper for journaling, one with grid paper for project planning and then a sketchbook paper booklet for drawing, collage or art making. For people looking to combine a bullet journal system with a more traditional planner, the TN/fauxdori system may be a great option. You can have a calendar booklet and then a blank booklet for notes and so on. Unlike ringbound or discbound planners, the TN-style planner is organized by booklet. These elastics allow for smaller cahier notebooks (thinner notebooks of 64 pages or less, usually) to be slipped under the elastics to hold them into the cover. Instead of rings or discs and holes in your paper, the Traveler’s Notebook is a leather (fabric, cardboard, or other heavyweight material) cover with a series of elastics running the length of the spine on the interior of the cover. Many folks will already be familiar with the Traveler’s Notebook but for anyone not familiar with the system, here’s how they work. The name Fauxdori arose several years ago when Traveler’s Notebook was still under the Midori branding and was refer to as the “Midori Traveler’s Notebook”, hence faux-dori as a name for any similar design. (And had I reviewed it, I probably would have discovered my new favorite notebook a lot sooner.Following our previous posts about Ring-Bound Planner Systems and Discbound Planner Systems its time to tackle the “elastic planner” AKA the Traveler’s Notebook (TN) or, when not made by the Traveler’s Notebook Company, the “Fauxdori”. The passport-sized notebook actually made the Strategist’s list of the 100 best notebooks we docked points for its compact size (not ideal for an everyday notebook for most people), but I could see those who never go without a small notebook in their pocket really digging it. You can get the notebooks in two sizes, regular and a smaller passport size, and with different leather covers (mine is blue, but there are natural shades, too). ![]() The brand even sells accessories like pocket stickers, card holders, zip pockets, sticky notes, and pen holders that allow its notebook to be personalized even more. If you are using the notebook as a planner, there are inserts with daily, weekly, and monthly formats, too. You can also get inserts made of plain lightweight paper, sketch paper, kraft paper, or watercolor paper. ![]() Each insert is a manageable 64 pages (so you can actually finish them), which can come lined, dotted, blank, or gridded. The inserts give the Traveler’s Company notebook a genuine Goldilocksian appeal because you can really use them to create a single product that serves the many - and exact - functions you want it to. (Yes, there are other brands that do this, but Traveler’s Company, from what I’ve read, is considered the original.) But that leather cover can actually hold up to three or four notebook inserts, which are easily added (and removed) via rubber bands. At its most basic, the notebook appears like any other with a handsome, removable leather cover. Founded in 2006, the Japanese brand (which formerly went by Midori) has gained its own cult following because its notebook allows you to separate things like a free-flowing diary from regimented to-do lists thanks to a rather ingenious insert system. After doing some research, I worried such a thing existed only in my dreams, but a bit more digging led me to the Traveler’s Company. The perfect product, I realized, would allow me to keep separate notebooks, but package them together - ideally, between the same two covers. I also learned that I don’t actually want all this information in one notebook. But after experimenting with the technique in a dotted Leuchtturm - the notebook of choice for so-called Bullet Journalists - I grew daunted by all the work it requires: You literally draw the lines and write out the calendars and whatever else you want to include in your bullet journal by hand. A friend suggested bullet journaling as a solution because it combines daily planning, diary writing, and task management into one (cult-y) organizational methodology. While comprehensive, this embarrassment of notebooks has never been convenient, simply because I have to switch between so many as I organize my thoughts. The reason I have so many notebooks on hand is because the planners I’ve always preferred never had enough room for everything I want to keep track of. I also have a diary, a gardening log, a baby journal, and an ideas notebook, all of which I use to record everything from tasks, to movies I watch, to family meal-planning. I live and die by my planner, but it is not the only notebook I keep close by to jot things down at any given time.
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