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I’m new to bullet journaling but have been journaling all my life. I’ve had Moleskines, used heavyweight sketchbooks as journals because I also draw in them, enjoy smooth gliding of my Pilot pens or zebra pens, and tombow markers.
With quarantine, I’ve picked up bullet journaling and this one lets me do it all. I found this one before I looked at Archer and Olive, Notebook Therapy for pages I could paint on. I’d consider those my next journal for design, page thickness (160gsm) and colors, but this is such high quality and affordable and still thick, possibly lighter in weight to carry around.
- I can write smoothly with no ghosting. Paper is super thick and high quality. The best paper in a journal I have currently which isn’t a heavyweight sketchbook.
- Tombow markers work like a dream on this. You can see my vibrant illustrations and bullet journal spreads.
- The dots are not too dark and just enough to guide you.
- The cover is a very soft textured black leather but also resistant to scratches. I plan on taking mine with me everywhere so this is important. I can tell it’ll last for years.
- I wanted to test watercolors on it (since I’m trying an all-in-one approach with this journal so I don’t keep starting new ones, and though the paper does wrinkle and doesn’t look as beautiful as 160gsm or heavier (this one is 120gsm), for bullet journaling this is great. Once my pages dried, I noticed it flattened out a bit. The lemons and the Totoro pages were done in watercolor.
- Pretty lightweight. Very pleased.
- Great size, not intimidating to complete pages.
