So What Exactly Are Travelers' Notebooks?
Choose your cover...
The traditional TN cover is simple, unadorned soft leather though covers can be made from sturdy card, fabric, and even upcycled hardback books. Generally simple covers are lightweight, reasonably inexpensive, and very good for traveling light.
More elaborate covers often have internal pockets and card pockets, and multiple elastic cords to hold lots of notebooks (known as 'inserts').
High end covers, like ours, remain super-functional but they can be elaborately and beautifully decorated. We use traditional leatherworking techniques to make the humble TN a portable work of art.
The infinitely flexible journaling system
Whether you choose simple or outrageously elaborate, the beauty of the system is this: you can devote individual books to individual subjects, and take them out and put them in the cover as needed. So you could have your weekly planner for deciding what you are going to do, your journal, for recording what you have done and what you felt about it, and your scribble book for your shopping lists, notes on the go, and idle doodles whilst you're on the phone. Add a wallet insert to hold cards, cash, phone and chocolate bars, and you're set. And if you are off traveling? Swap out the everyday journal and add in one to record your trip.
It's a system that becomes whatever you want it to be.