Nitoms S4102 STALOGY Notebook, B5, Squared, 365 Days Notebook, Black

Good size. Like grid on pages. Plenty of good quality paper pages.

Absolutely perfect! I love Tomoe River paper, and only use paper with grid layouts, so I have had to search high and low to find it in a B5 size! Definitely will be ordering a bunch just in case they discontinue it! I wish it came in other colors! Love love love the quality, binding, paper weight, it doesn't have a back pocket, which I do miss, and I wish it had an elastic closure, but otherwise it's perfect!

Having used many different sizes of the stalogy over the years, my favorite is the b6. I use the b6 Stalogy as my every day lifeline planner. The binding is something made of magic because it holds up to whatever I add into it. The paper is perfect and gives me just the right sound once it has been written, marked, or colored on. From stickers to washi tape to tipping in velum or cardstock inserts, the binding holds up and the stalogy just gets chunkier. Depending on how you use the stalogy, it will last for a year or more as a planner. Some markers will bleed through (Zig color dot) but it adds to the character. This is my 5th year using the b6. I used LEUCHTTURM1917 for years before I found the stalogy.

I've been looking for new notebooks for a while, and I found Stalogy after seeing some this notebook reviewed on the Gentleman Stationer and Pen Addict blogs. The paper is thin, even thinner than Tamoe River paper, but it works for me. I'm using it as my scientific notebook, writing with a Pilot Metal Falcon with EF nib and Pilot Iroshizuku Take-sumi ink, and there is only slight ghosting and no bleedthrough or feathering so far. The grid and proprietary calendar features are printed in a relatively light shade of gray, so they don't distract. Stalogy has designed this notebook to avoid some of the features that seem to be typical in other journaling notebooks, such as built-in pockets and ribbon bookmarks. This is perfect for me, as I find built-in ribbon bookmarks get in my way more frequently than they are useful, and I just don't like and won't use the built-in pockets. I know a lot of people love these features, but I'd rather not have them, and I've found it difficult to find good notebooks without them. The Stalogy notebook is softcover, and one can see a little of the spine stitching imprinted on the spine's cover material. The binding is better and more robust than a lot of the hardcover notebooks I've seen. The soft cover feels like a fine-textured plastic, but it's sturdy enough. I'll almost certainly want to supplement with a cover for carry.

If Hobonichi and a bullet journal had a baby, this would be it! 😆 LoVE love love this journal! I love its bigger size, the love the blank pages, and I love the paper it's made with. It does bleed or ghost but not any more than most other bullet journals. The graph on the paper is light enough to not be in the way but still help you with straight lines and sizing your embellishments. The BEST PART: the PRICE!! At a fraction of the price of a Hobonichi, it can't be beat. I will continue to buy these as long as they stay priced reasonably.

This is different in sizing from all my other b5 notebooks. Not sure if that is fault of this notebook or the others but it is accurate to measurements so just double check if you have a cover you want to use with this. The paper is not great for fountain pens though it is thin. Not something I would repurchase at this price. I actually don’t need notebooks to be so many pages so the benefit of that is a bit lost on me. Otherwise nicely made and simple.

Still one of my favorite notebooks, I have 3! I use it for school and I love how the pages are thin enough but not as thin as a bible paper. The ink doesn’t bleed through, although I use UniStyle-Fit .28 pens on it, I write with a lot of pressure so it shows a bit through the paper. It works well with how I write! It doesn’t have a hard cover so i bought a clear book cover for it to help it keep it’s shape and last longer.

Everyone uses planners differently. This book accommodates all different styles of use. Selectable month/day/date on the top of the page denotes the "when," and the time axis on the left side of the page is perfect for noting appointments. Ample space remains on the gridded page for capturing meeting notes, sketches, etc. For me, the B5 size is ideal … about 7" x 10". Doesn't take a lot of desk or backpack space. While I use mine as a planner, it would be ideal for journaling or sketching as well. Most important to me is paper quality. Super quality, does not bleed through even with my go-to writing implement, a fountain pen. I have used different planning systems for a lot of years, both electronic and paper. This one checks all the boxes. Totally satisfied, highly recommend.

Though far more reviews have been written about the B6 or A6 size of this book as a comparison to the Tomoe River-filled Hobonichi techos, I think the B5 version of this notebook stands alone as I could not find any competing offerings in the B5 size category with a similarly high page-count and gridded FP ink-tolerant paper. I use this as a laboratory notebook and find the relatively unobstructive grid layout practical for my purposes. The book lays (almost) perfectly flat once you first break-in the spine. The corners of the paper are rounded off, which is a nice quality touch. The paper itself has a funny smell to it—not so much so as to be bothersome, but noteworthy nonetheless. The date function at the top of the page is printed so small and faint that it isn't the easiest to read, but thankfully with all the B5 page real estate, you can write the date yourself without worrying about wasting a line. My biggest gripe about the layout is the lack of page numbers. I wish everyone would put page numbers! Now for the paper: The #1 question people have surrounding this notebook is whether or not Stalogy paper = TR paper. It isn't, but it's close. It would be more accurate to say that Stalogy paper ~ TR paper. It is similarly thin, and takes any fountain pen ink I have thrown at it without feathering, but it does show-through, especially with darker, more saturated inks. I only experienced a small patch of actual bleed-through once with a particularly wet pool of Colorverse Quasar, but this is the exception rather than the norm. Dry times on Stalogy are quicker than on TR, so these notebooks might be an ideal choice for left-handed writers. TR paper aficionados will find that Stalogy flattens certain inks a little bit. Quasar still sheened a fair bit, but RO Fire and Ice lost its 'fire' to become simply a turquoise. If TR paper is a 5/5, then Stalogy paper would be a 4.5/5, but since the market is relatively devoid of B5 Tomoe River notebooks, I would definitely recommend this as a suitable alternative. If anyone reading this happens to be a fellow scientist, this makes a fantastic laboratory notebook with its vast page count and practical/portable B5 size. It lays more than flat enough to stay open on the bench, despite being a softcover book. Just know that you will have to number your own pages.

Excelente Layout e qualidade de fabrico e do papel. O meu principal Notebook de todos os dias

Ich liebe den Stalogy, egal in welcher Größe. Das Papier hält so ziemlich jeden meiner Stifte und auch die Tinten, ohne durchzubluten. Das Ghosting hält sich auch in Grenzen und das Schreibgefühl ist toll, bei einer sehr angenehmen Papier Stärke. Und das er dann auch noch 368 Seiten hat macht ihn mehr als perfekt. Noch besser wäre er nur mit noch mehr Seiten.. :)

Arrived bent and damaged.

Très joli, papier très fin et de bonne qualité.