Tokyo Blog

It’s nearly the end of the year, and like most people I’m gearing up for the following one. After getting through a busy year with the aid of Muji notebooks and iCal, I’ve decided to go completely analogue for 2010 with a Moleskine diary, or schedule as the Americans will recognise it by, or possibly techou if your Japanese. So basically you’ve got several different formats of time-based notation throughout (but I got the one with the weekly format), with national holidays for every country in the world, time zones, measurement conversions, phases of the moon, timetabling, a matrix showing the distance between any two of the world’s major cities, a ruler, dialing codes, domain suffixes (internet TLD) a separate leather-bound notebook, a thinner notebook with customisable tabs, perforated tear-outs for giving details, icon stickers for weather, birthdays, events and so-on (you can just go ahead and stick them on a particular day or you can use the worded stickers to customise tabs in the notebook). It’s impressive because it’s pretty compact too. I know I recommended the Hobonichi Techou last time I talked about getting a diary, but I also recommend this one from Moleskine now too.