But what I didnвЂ™t realize was that Paperblanks use not just 2 levels of paper, but at least 3! You can only find the paper weights in the descriptions on their website, not on the product itself. Paperblanks uses different paper weights, and when I bought these notebooks, which have different page counts, I assumed their paper weights were 80 GSM and 120 GSM, the papers found on the Paperblanks Nova Stella Solis I reviewed, and the Paperblanks Reporter notebooks I reviewed. I can only point to one particular disappointment with the quality of the notebook itself. Rather than just switch to another one, I scrawled my way through it in larger than usual handwriting, often writing on only one side of the page. But it was actually because I found myself not enjoying the notebook. I wish I could say it was because I had an incredibly productive and interesting time of life which resulted in me filling more pages than usual with all my fascinating thoughts.

I was excited to start using one, so it was only a month or two after I bought it that the Mystique entered my daily arsenal. I chose the Tesla and Mystique designs, in the Mini size. I bought my two Flex-ees at an independent bookstore in Delaware that always has a lovely display of Paperblanks, and even better, usually has a good representation of unlined notebooks in addition to the more common lined format. My Old Leather said вЂњFlexiвЂќ but beyond that, it took me a while to dig into their website far enough to find a reference to Flexi in the singular, so I guess it is one Flexi, two Flex-ees. I have to just stop here and say that it took me a while to figure out whether these notebooks are Paperblanks Flexis, as in plural of Flexi, and thereby pronounced Flex-ees, or whether Flexis itself was the name of the product line, pronounced Flex-iss. (My older ones have plain white edges, and while the Old Leather has widely rounded corners, the Via Romana has squared corners.) Otherwise the Flexis are pretty similar to most of my other Paperblanks notebooksвЂ“ I love the marbled page edges and tightly rounded corners. The current Flexis just have a little paper tuck pocket that wonвЂ™t hold very much beyond a couple of business cards. The Old Leather notebook is referred to as a вЂњBack Pocket Flexi,вЂќ as it has a Moleskine-style expanding back pocket. Its cover slightly thinner, and seems to be and underlying board wrapped with a smooth paper on which the design is printed, unlike the new Flexis, which have a single or double layer cover on which the design is directly printed/debossed, from what I can see. The current line of Flexis notebooks was introduced within the last few years, but I realized my oldest Paperblanks notebook, from their Old Leather collection, has a similar cover. IвЂ™ve been coveting these notebooks for a whileвЂ“ there are some very cool cover designs, and I liked the idea of the flexi binding, which is a nice compromise between the sturdiness of a hardcover and the flexibility and lightness of a softcover. I own several of them but I had never actually used one until quite recently, when I decided to bite the bullet and try using a Paperblanks Flexis notebook as a daily journal.

Paperblanks mini diary 2016