Beautiful Japanese Stationery, Typewritten Commonplace Notes and the Return of Analogue

After a few months away — and a very welcome "petition of one" from Stacy in Florida — Rob and Helen are back.

Rob has been building a public commonplace: twenty-five years of learning, typed onto index cards (possibly breaking his typewriter in the process) and slowly taking over his studio wall. Helen has been redistributing her notebook collection to a room of grateful authors, which may or may not count as cheating in the great notebook challenge. See original hoarding cast here and a revisit to the challenge of using notebooks here.

Along the way: why old publishing offices were built around attention rather than productivity, a typewritten daily planning ritual that's quietly replaced Todoist, the strange magnetism of Midori paper, a beautiful Japanese storage haul, giving away index cards to parents and why the whole world seems to be drifting back to analogue.

It's like old times. Which is rather the point of the cast.
It's good to be back.

If you'd like to see images, and more about the show - check out the companion newsletter to this episode.
https://stationeryfreaks.substack.com/