{"id":2050,"date":"2025-05-17T19:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2025-08-30T14:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:58:21","slug":"notebook-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.odrakir.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/17\/notebook-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Notebook Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This could easily be the name of a blog. Maybe it already is. But that\u2019s beside the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been trying to slow down for a long time… to break away from the chaos of daily life. To do that, I\u2019ve forced myself to journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It helps me clear my mind, organize my life, align my thoughts, and most importantly, to nurture a creativity that\u2019s been running on empty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, this isn\u2019t some new revelation. I was a Moleskine user for decades. A loyalist. But over time, it started to feel\u2026 limiting. I wanted something more flexible. Something modular. A system I could shape around me, not the other way around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because journaling, for me, isn\u2019t just writing. It\u2019s also collage. Sketching. Watercolor. Scratching out wild ideas and painting over them with new ones. It\u2019s experimentation. It\u2019s… me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funny thing though, even though I love writing in notebooks, I feel oddly freer when I type in a computer. Maybe it’s the impermanence of a blinking cursor versus the commitment of a fountain pen on paper. I scribble and scratch, sure, but the pressure is always there. Still, I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Moleskine no longer doing it for me, I started searching. And wow, the stationery world is massive. So many brands, so many systems, so many rabbit holes to fall into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made a list of what I needed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n