It's important to understand that paper has a grain direction like wood and fabric. The paper's fibers run in the direction of either the length of the full sheet (grain long) or the width (grain ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." I love writing down notes and scribbles on any piece of paper that I find. The only problem with that is ...

You won't find these notebooks at the app store. Writing by hand is making a comeback. Notebooks are fashionable again. Why are people opting for something as hopelessly retrograde as paper? Because ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Innovators from Purdue University hope their new technology can help transform paper sheets from a notebook into a music player interface and make food packaging interactive.

Contrary to popular belief, graph paper is not just for math class. The best graph paper notebooks are especially helpful for practicing sketches or lettering, bullet journaling, creating ...

I've had a long-running dream of entirely ditching my physical notebook for an E Ink tablet, but I've never been able to truly make it work. I first attempted this switch with the first generation ...

Blame the crowded media landscape, blame the internet, or just blame my demanding cat, but it feels like finding focus is constantly shifting further out of reach. On the one hand, the rise of the ...

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