As much as we’re fans of smartphones, we can’t live without blank notebooks for writing down some interesting thing we saw or need to remember, or notes for helping us organize our day. We’re always on the lookout for cheap, well-designed notebooks that are a pleasure to use AND shift our thinking slightly. We find a lot of good ones at Muji, the haut-minimal Japanese housewares store. We’re currently smitten with their Chrononotebook, an AM/PM scheduler with an image of a white clock on the left/AM side and a dark clock on the right…designed to help you plot your day visually and graphically rather than the usual linear fashion, a practice we’ve found can help us loosen things up a bit.
