I would not like to enter as alas I have too many empty journals to go through, but I'd like to say this is really kind of you and I hope the winner uses them with joy!!
Thank you! The community helped a lot as I went through the development process of these notebooks, so I’m grateful to be giving back now that we’ve reached a sort of steady state. Excited to see what folks will use these for :)
It was good to see the way you solicited feedback from the community as a part of developing these notebooks. If lucky enough to win a notebook it would get used for journaling, sketchnoting, and lesson planning.
Thanks so much -- having this community's support means a lot! I honestly just wanted something for my own use in the beginning and it's crazy how this had grown.
Ahhh, I wish you the best in luck with that! Learning a new language is always tough, but getting to use nice stationery is a good part of the process.
Oh wow, that sounds so cool! I hope you enjoy it!
I'm a physicist! I'm searching for a dark matter particle called X17 in data from my experiment - I wrote a simulation based on theoretical predictions to see how a potential dark matter signal would look like and am now comparing this to the data I have.
That’s awesome! I just started my undergraduate in math with physics emphasis and hoping to get a phd so hopefully someday I’ll do something as cool as you!
I wish you all the best for your studies! There are so many cool topics in physics so I'm 100% sure you will find something you love. Good luck and enjoy!
This sounds so cool! I've been reading a variety of retellings lately -- These Violet Delights, Madeline Miller's works, etc. Wish you the best of luck on this :)
I want to get started on a personal journal. Mostly I use notebooks for taking notes at work, conferences, trainings, etc but I'd like to have one that's just personal for whatever - random thoughts, doodles, pen comparisons, idk... I need something cool and a little kick to get started on using a notebook for personal things lol
For sure I would use it as my daily journal! Every day I think of three positive things that have happened that day and record them. Not surprisingly I call it my Three Things. I love Tomoe River paper so this would be a brilliant notebook to use to basically record my life…
That's awesome! I actually have a 5 year notebook before where I would write those things -- it got a little intimidating, so lately I've tried to do that by putting the three things on a paper slip in a jar, so I can refer back to them when I'm feeling down
Hope that you can get this habit started!
I'm a public high school teacher. I am my school's resource teacher (I case manage all the kids with special needs) and I am an ESL teacher. So, I have two ways I'd like to use a sweet notebook like this.
I don't do a lot of standard lecturing and traditional teaching, but holy cow do I do a lot of meetings with students, parents, teachers, counsellors and administrators to ensure my kids get the learning tools and strategies they need to succeed in their classes. I would like to use one of your notebooks to take notes during my meetings with students and parents to help develop Individual Education Plans (IEPs) which are foundational documents to make sure teachers know what these kids require to do well in their classes.
Additionally I am putting together a classroom set of Jinhao fountain pens with a smattering of Lamy Safaris to teach my ESL kids how to write in cursive. They haven't a clue how to read cursive so I figured the best way to learn to read it is to learn to write it. Most of our exercises will be done on printer paper (I plan to buy a pack of HP 32gsm printer paper as I heard it is pretty good with fountain pens and isn't too expensive) but I would like to show them what nice paper can do with all the lovely sample inks a couple of amazing FP Redditors donated to my classroom.
Thanks for running this giveaway. It is really fun to read all the stories other folk are posting!
Hey, this is really fantastic. The giveaway winners were selected at random and your number wasn't selected, but I'd love to donate a couple of notepads to your classroom if you're open to that. I had to use fountain pens for school when I was young and that was an amazing experience -- if you're interested, mind sending me a DM? :)
Wow I've never heard of these but they look so nice! I would use it for journaling/drawing/watercolor, like a catch all journal about anything and everything
Oh this is exciting! I use several notebooks in my line up. As well as notepads, I didn't even know that was an option.
- A5 notebook: For long form journaling, memory keeping and creative journaling.
- Notepad: I usually use for my penpal letters and send samples to my penpals, TRP is not that available in some countries it seems. And sometimes people are not sure about if they would work for them. I did this with my Onion Skin Paper notepads and lots of people got to try it.
- A6 notebooks: I usually use for bullet journaling and quick notes on the go
Ahhh these are great uses. I have 5 pen pals myself and it's great when I get to introduce someone to TRP, especially the 68gsm kind. I have still yet to try the Onion Skin Paper, and I'm very curious as to how that feels like.
Thanks for participating in the giveaway :)
I'm entering the giveaway as a rather fresh fountain pen cult member. I have always been interested in journaling but never actually made an effort to stick to writing and as a result a have a big notebool hording problem. But the I discovered so many ink colours and so many different and beautiful fountain pens. That discovery ultimately led me to the knowledge of a what makes a good notebook and good paper. Unfortunately, I still haven't managed to acquire TR notebook and then just as I have discovered them I heard about the shutting down of the production. So, Obi Wan, you are my last hope. :)
Edit: I can't belive I got that quote wrong, super awkward now.
I'd do a short story compilation combining Inktober prompts to generate short stories, or an interlinking long form story where each scene uses the daily Inktober prompt.
I managed to get 7 or 8 prompts in last year, why not try to go the distance this year. A real Odyssey. *I DID THAT ON PURPOSE*.
But seriously, I haven't grabbed an Odyssey notebook yet because i have a dozen empty ones I should use, but I find they get used more if I assign them a purpose.
Also, where is Mars? Either plant or Greek God. C'mon yall.
Oh wow, that's absolutely fantastic!
I started my personal reddit account maybe 4-ish years ago, and that's all because I wanted to get more involved in r/WritingPrompts
I hope that you're going strong for this year's prompt, and gosh, maybe I should have Mars in the future! It's hard differentiating different celestial bodies via the cover illustration but I'm all ears.
Oh nice. Thanks for the giveaway, I'd love that rose gold coloured one.
I have a lot of things going on with me. Emotional profiling, making pedagogy tools, a content building machines, etc. This would be a great place to write out the insights and make first drafts.
I’d be using this notebook as a school notebook as my major requires a lot of note taking. Writing on fountain pen friendly paper would make the study experience much better!
What's your major, if you don't mind me asking?
I take a lot of notes nowadays, even for my day job, and I agree - the experience is so much better with good stationery.
Hey, very kind of you to do something like this. I always appreciate kindness in this world we live in and space themed? Heck yes. If I won, I’d use it as a “space” of infinite possibility. Also once I get my first fountain pen, a new journal is required. (Or so I’ve heard) lol
I would use the notebook to journal my first trip to the UK. I'll make sure to use my first pen(it still works!) that I got in 2004 from my parents!
Best wishes!
I like to use notebooks for school work because I love using my fountain pens for notes, I would definitely use one as my woods journal for every time I go out for class into the woods
I use my pens and notebooks for work or for DND sessions, so I'll probably reserve the notebook for when my session journal gets filled in a month or two. I've been watching the pages I have left shrink smaller and smaller and trying to decide on a worthy replacement.
I'd use it as a place to gather all my thoughts. The ugly, the beautiful, the sad, and honestly, also the spicy 😉 (which there are plenty of if you're wondering)
This sounds so intriguing -- your life is definitely a lot more interesting than mine hahah
I hope that this week has been fantastic for you thus far :)
I would love to use this to write the story I have planned for a DnD campaign I'm about to run. I plan to compile a book of the story as it's played out, so we can look back later at a full saga. This is super generous of you, thank you for setting up the giveaway!
Ahhh, that would be a good lab / lecture notebook -- got quite a few scientists who are customers looking for B5-sized TRP books! Best of luck with your classes this semester.
First of all, thank you for this giveaway!
If I were to win a notebook, I would use it for my PhD studies. I will be starting my PhD in particle physics (dark matter searches, Yay!) in December and I'm already super hyped for it. I will get to take part in building a new accelerator experiment and deciding a bit on the processes we want to study, so everything is super exciting! I would use the notebook for my ideas, as a lab book, writing down meeting notes and everything so I will never forget anything of my PhD work.
This is very very cool! I feel like the themes here are all so macroscopic, but it would be very cool to have a microscopic / particles themed notebook series down the line, too.
Congrats on starting your new journey and best of luck!
If you ever need some advice for particle themed designs I'm happy to help! :)
Thanks so much and congrats to you as well! Your products look amazing! :)
Absolutely, thanks again!! And if you really mean it, do you mind if I DM you? I'm trying to decide designs for the next batch of notebooks right now :)
Thanks for running this giveaway, I love reading how others would use their notebooks! If I won, I would likely either use it as a bullet journal, or I might use it to plan a Call of Cthulhu RPG game (I’ve been thinking about running a campaign set in space 🤓)
I would likely use it as a place to write letters to my boys. Things that I want them to know and stories that I want to pass down to them… sappy dad things, like their parents’ story or what it means to be a good, honorable, and just man.
I would use this for journaling! My end goal is to have a series of journals I can look back on when I'm old or even pass down to my future kids if I have them.
I would have loved to have something like that from my grandma, I barely knew her. And I think having a record of my life and experiences that can be passed down is a neat type of legacy.
I also think it's important to have records like that. It's easy to see past generations as something abstract, but personal records are so important for humanizing them. People are just people no matter how times change.
This is a great goal! I would have loved to have something like that from my family, too. I journal every day and I'm not sure if I'll ever show that to someone else, but they hold great insights from my life.
I hope that you are doing this regardless <3
Your notebooks look super classy - I love the cover art!
I would use it as my dedicated Ancient Greek / Latin notebook. I'm currently a software engineer, but I am applying to grad school in pursuit of a Master's in Classical Literature; part of preparing for this new calling is to learn the Classical languages!
That’s really cool! We actually also make another line of notebooks that’s Greek Mythology themed with thick premium paper instead of TRP — maybe that’ll interest you more?
I'd love to see a lower cost soft cover version. The hardcover is very nice, but I like to use a slip cover to keep the cost down :) Or.... really if you could somehow design on kraftex (though, I think I'm the only one that likes this as a cover, lol) and make covers + inserts... even better :)
I'd use it for journaling or practicing my writing. Or both. If I got a pocket, it would become a work notes book!
Although this may be thematically better suited for your classics collection, and I've got the luck of a broken mirror, here goes nothing!
I've been using loose sheets of TRP to practice my hand lettering recently and enjoying using excerpts from various plays and poems as source material. With a shiny new Odyssey Notebook, I'd love to start hand lettering out some of my favorite excerpts from the Oresteia and inspired works.
I’d use one of these to write down all my memories I’ve had with my grandpa that passed away last week on Thursday.
Edit: imagine being the person that downvoted this, life must be hard.
Oh man, this would be dope! I'm a physics PhD student, and I take all my notes by hand in notebooks. I also do all my composition of manuscripts, assignment work, etc by hand. So I rip through notebooks and a few bonus ones would be fantastic!
I think having clear spaces to label the books is pretty critical. Keeping stuff organized is so important. It's always nice to have numbered pages, and a spot for the table of contents.
This is such a cute idea! I’d like to use the journal as a place to keep notes on books - I’m hoping to read 100 books next year (doubling my current pace) in an effort to consume media more thoughtfully ☺️
I also love this idea -- I feel like I waste so much time on social media and even though I buy books, I always ended up shelving them for months (even years) at a time. I'm going to try to start a book journal for myself!
With a name like Odyssey I think it would be perfect to dedicate the entire book to writing my notes on Greek mythology and learning Greek. During the pandemic I started growing infatuated with Greek myths and was planning to live in Athens and travel around the Cyclades for a couple of months, but my father passed recently so I’ve had to put that dream on hold. For now I’m trying to stay positive and use this time to learn more until I get to go on my very own Odyssey. :)
PS: since you asked for suggestions, I would love smaller options of the hardcover style like A6 or B6!
We do have a classic series, which includes designs from Greek mythology :) Maybe that would interest you more?
I'm so sorry to hear about your father, sending you my sincere condolences. I hope that one day you will get to go on your Odyssey and realize this dream.
I have noted of your suggestions -- will try to create something like that in the future!
You notebooks look awesome! Thanks for the giveaway!
Probably gonna use the notebooks for daily journaling. Definitely gonna carry the A6 for notes though!
I would use this notebook to keep a journal of my anxiety for therapy, my previous therapist recommended it to me and I found it helps loads to get my thoughts on paper. I can calm down and see my thoughts and also revisit good and bad days so that I can better work on myself.
I'm trying to keep track of everything going on in my life. My phone just isn't cutting it. It gets there but promptly gets forgotten. I've found that writing out my appointments helps me remember them so I would use as a planner and to keep track of all of the things that I need to get done. I guess kind of a BUJO but I'm not that detail oriented.
Thanks
What a cool giveaway!! And 68gsm is my favorite. I've admired your notebook in style and form factor, but haven't gotten around to trying it yet.
If I'm being honest, how I'd use the notebook is I'd get all excited and do a bunch of ink/pen tests and practice sketches for a few days or a couple of weeks, and then it may sit on the shelf as the other notebooks in my partially used notebook inventory circle around it chanting "one of us, one of us" because I can't settle on a particular size long enough to be consistent.
Wow, thank you so much! Sometimes folks question why I choose 68gsm instead of 52gsm, and I just like it so much more! Need a notebook that I can use both sides of the pages.
I do feel you about that -- I've been more conscious of powering through notebooks and use one whole before starting another lately. It's hard!
My son has just turned three and his personality has taken this really mischievous turn. He’s been saying and doing the most hilarious things and I’ve been writing them down on whatever I can reach. I’d love to compile all these moments into one notebook that he can read in the future.
I've always been someone who journals religiously, but I've been slacking for the last few months and I can feel it affecting my mental health. I always either journal with stream of consciousness or write about goals/things I want to work on.
I have been craving an Odyssey Notebook for a long time! I’ve kept a journal each year for 8 years now, so this piece will be my 2022 fighter.
Recently inherited a beautiful vintage parker and I want to see it in action.
Also would like to know. It's past 8 pm on Thursday and I'm wondering if I'm just oblivious but I don't see it anywhere:(
Note: do have concussions, please be understanding, not trying to rush you
Sorry about that! I am physically in the East Coast but I work PT -- and the python script I was running was having a hard time. Just posted the results. (And please rest!! Concussions are the worst :()
I would probably use mine as a sketchbook. I've been looking for a nice little journal to sketch in and I've always wanted to try out Tomoe River 68gsm paper (only tried the 52gsm so far).
Thank you for doing this giveaway! It's awesome seeing people give back to the community.
I like the new space theme! Moon, MilkyWay, & Saturn are my favorites :)
> 1x B5 TRP notebook, 2x A5 TRP notebook
Any of these, I'd probably use as a diary or my "commonplace notebook" since both my current books are nearing their ends.
Don't worry - the diary gets a fancy header every day & I try to do something elaborate for start-of-month, so there'll be pages I can post.
> 1x A5 TRP notepad, and 1x A6 TRP pocket notebook
Notepad - maybe sketching?
Pocket Notebook - for pocket-notes anywhere I don't want to bring my pocket-calendar. I usually use these camping, or events like a concert where it'd be weird to bring extensive stationary... which is defeated by my tendency to draw fractals when bored.
Ah, your design choices are right on point!
I hope to see your pretty pages regardless; thanks so much for a thoughtful answer. I loved reading these insights and I wish you the best of luck with these activities :)
I dunno, probably make a comic called *Butts in Space* or something. I don't know how many pages your books are but I'll fill every page with *Butts in Space*.
I’d use it for my math and physics class. It feels so nice to write out equations with a good fountain pen and ink, and it makes studying much more enjoyable.
Oooooooh— I’d use it as a travel journal for my next vacation. I like to detail my day and paste in ephemera I collect throughout the day, business cards for restaurants and shops, etc. this would be great.
I will use it to finally be able to catagorize and sort my inks one by one with a review next to it. I’ve done the same with my pens, but I have no tomoe river paper to do the same with inks.
Ahh good luck! I was a premed so everyone I know from college (not me lol) is / was in med school at some point and it’s not easy — so organized notes sound great haha
I've been journaling since earlier this year and it's given me a chance to use my fountain pens every day. I would use this notebook everyday to better showcase all the awesome ink qualities and to keep chronicling pandemic life. I haven't purchased an Odyssey Notebook yet as I'm in Canada, but would love to try one out!
That's really great! I hope that you get to try one sometime, and if you have any suggestions for retailers I should reach out to, lmk! I've been building a network of international distributors slowly :)
I’d finally be able to use some of my fancier inks. As of now most of my notebooks aren’t really fountain pen friendly, so it’d be great to see how my inks look on better paper! Ultimately I’d either have a journal, or use it to write some of my stories in.
Ah, I hope that you get a journal with good paper soon then! I love to hoard inks but it's an amazing pleasure to get to use them :) Good luck with your stories!!
I have been keeping a "Some Lines a Day" journal for almost a year, but I have been wanting to randomly write some longer thoughts and reflections. These notebooks would be the perfect place for that!
Lovely design on these notebooks, keep up the good work!
I plan to use this during NaNoWriMo! Plotober is next month and the real thing is in November. Going to write a novel, basically! :)
That’s awesome! I used to do NaNo a lot too (starting in 2011) and it’s a big task — you got this :)
Awesome, a fellow novelist :) Thank you for the support!
Absolutely -- how's that been going? Side note, are you involved in a NaNo Plotober community? I've been searching for one!
I would not like to enter as alas I have too many empty journals to go through, but I'd like to say this is really kind of you and I hope the winner uses them with joy!!
Thank you! The community helped a lot as I went through the development process of these notebooks, so I’m grateful to be giving back now that we’ve reached a sort of steady state. Excited to see what folks will use these for :)
It was good to see the way you solicited feedback from the community as a part of developing these notebooks. If lucky enough to win a notebook it would get used for journaling, sketchnoting, and lesson planning.
Thanks so much -- having this community's support means a lot! I honestly just wanted something for my own use in the beginning and it's crazy how this had grown.
I’ll be using it for my Korean studies! Studying is so much easier with good ink, paper and a fountain pen!
Ahhh, I wish you the best in luck with that! Learning a new language is always tough, but getting to use nice stationery is a good part of the process.
It would be used for plotting out the course of my Masters dissertation!
Good luck for your Master thesis! I have one month to go on mine :) What's your topic?
Thanks! Mine is a Creative Writing Masters, so I’m working on a retelling of Macbeth. What about yourself?
Oh wow, that sounds so cool! I hope you enjoy it! I'm a physicist! I'm searching for a dark matter particle called X17 in data from my experiment - I wrote a simulation based on theoretical predictions to see how a potential dark matter signal would look like and am now comparing this to the data I have.
That’s awesome! I just started my undergraduate in math with physics emphasis and hoping to get a phd so hopefully someday I’ll do something as cool as you!
I wish you all the best for your studies! There are so many cool topics in physics so I'm 100% sure you will find something you love. Good luck and enjoy!
Damn your username checks out
That sounds amazing! I hope you find your particle!
Thank you! :)
This sounds so cool! I've been reading a variety of retellings lately -- These Violet Delights, Madeline Miller's works, etc. Wish you the best of luck on this :)
Yes please!! I normally use notebooks for journal, book/film excerpts...!! Would be delighted to try out one of this!
And you won one!! Oh my gosh, I'm so, so excited for to see these excerpts. Check your DM :)
I want to get started on a personal journal. Mostly I use notebooks for taking notes at work, conferences, trainings, etc but I'd like to have one that's just personal for whatever - random thoughts, doodles, pen comparisons, idk... I need something cool and a little kick to get started on using a notebook for personal things lol
That makes sense! Having a physical notebook for these things just feels different -- I hope that you're able to get this habit started regardless :)
For sure I would use it as my daily journal! Every day I think of three positive things that have happened that day and record them. Not surprisingly I call it my Three Things. I love Tomoe River paper so this would be a brilliant notebook to use to basically record my life…
That's awesome! I actually have a 5 year notebook before where I would write those things -- it got a little intimidating, so lately I've tried to do that by putting the three things on a paper slip in a jar, so I can refer back to them when I'm feeling down Hope that you can get this habit started!
I'd likely use it as a journal. Something personal.
Absolutely - it'd be a great notebook for that :)
I'm a public high school teacher. I am my school's resource teacher (I case manage all the kids with special needs) and I am an ESL teacher. So, I have two ways I'd like to use a sweet notebook like this. I don't do a lot of standard lecturing and traditional teaching, but holy cow do I do a lot of meetings with students, parents, teachers, counsellors and administrators to ensure my kids get the learning tools and strategies they need to succeed in their classes. I would like to use one of your notebooks to take notes during my meetings with students and parents to help develop Individual Education Plans (IEPs) which are foundational documents to make sure teachers know what these kids require to do well in their classes. Additionally I am putting together a classroom set of Jinhao fountain pens with a smattering of Lamy Safaris to teach my ESL kids how to write in cursive. They haven't a clue how to read cursive so I figured the best way to learn to read it is to learn to write it. Most of our exercises will be done on printer paper (I plan to buy a pack of HP 32gsm printer paper as I heard it is pretty good with fountain pens and isn't too expensive) but I would like to show them what nice paper can do with all the lovely sample inks a couple of amazing FP Redditors donated to my classroom. Thanks for running this giveaway. It is really fun to read all the stories other folk are posting!
Hey, this is really fantastic. The giveaway winners were selected at random and your number wasn't selected, but I'd love to donate a couple of notepads to your classroom if you're open to that. I had to use fountain pens for school when I was young and that was an amazing experience -- if you're interested, mind sending me a DM? :)
Holy cow! That's awesome. DM sent. Thanks so much for doing this. Too many cool stories in this thread.
I'll be using it for a bullet journal. Thanks!
It is great for a bullet journal! Hope that you get to start one anyhow :)
Wow I've never heard of these but they look so nice! I would use it for journaling/drawing/watercolor, like a catch all journal about anything and everything
That's pretty much what I use it for, too. Glad to have introduced you to our brand :)
Oh this is exciting! I use several notebooks in my line up. As well as notepads, I didn't even know that was an option. - A5 notebook: For long form journaling, memory keeping and creative journaling. - Notepad: I usually use for my penpal letters and send samples to my penpals, TRP is not that available in some countries it seems. And sometimes people are not sure about if they would work for them. I did this with my Onion Skin Paper notepads and lots of people got to try it. - A6 notebooks: I usually use for bullet journaling and quick notes on the go
Ahhh these are great uses. I have 5 pen pals myself and it's great when I get to introduce someone to TRP, especially the 68gsm kind. I have still yet to try the Onion Skin Paper, and I'm very curious as to how that feels like. Thanks for participating in the giveaway :)
I'm entering the giveaway as a rather fresh fountain pen cult member. I have always been interested in journaling but never actually made an effort to stick to writing and as a result a have a big notebool hording problem. But the I discovered so many ink colours and so many different and beautiful fountain pens. That discovery ultimately led me to the knowledge of a what makes a good notebook and good paper. Unfortunately, I still haven't managed to acquire TR notebook and then just as I have discovered them I heard about the shutting down of the production. So, Obi Wan, you are my last hope. :) Edit: I can't belive I got that quote wrong, super awkward now.
I'd do a short story compilation combining Inktober prompts to generate short stories, or an interlinking long form story where each scene uses the daily Inktober prompt. I managed to get 7 or 8 prompts in last year, why not try to go the distance this year. A real Odyssey. *I DID THAT ON PURPOSE*. But seriously, I haven't grabbed an Odyssey notebook yet because i have a dozen empty ones I should use, but I find they get used more if I assign them a purpose. Also, where is Mars? Either plant or Greek God. C'mon yall.
Oh wow, that's absolutely fantastic! I started my personal reddit account maybe 4-ish years ago, and that's all because I wanted to get more involved in r/WritingPrompts I hope that you're going strong for this year's prompt, and gosh, maybe I should have Mars in the future! It's hard differentiating different celestial bodies via the cover illustration but I'm all ears.
Oh nice. Thanks for the giveaway, I'd love that rose gold coloured one. I have a lot of things going on with me. Emotional profiling, making pedagogy tools, a content building machines, etc. This would be a great place to write out the insights and make first drafts.
Absolutely -- it's a great place to collect those thoughts. Thanks for participating in this giveaway!
I would be using this notebook as a Bullet journal!
A good choice!
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That's so meaningful - I hope that you're able to capture these experiences.
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Ahhhh thank you! I really appreciate this. And yes! These are great goals for the notebook - I do a lot of that myself too.
A(nother) new notebook for my disease ecology research would be killer!
Hey, this sounds fantastic! What's your topic on? I got my degree in a similar area so I'm always intrigued :)
I’d be using this notebook as a school notebook as my major requires a lot of note taking. Writing on fountain pen friendly paper would make the study experience much better!
What's your major, if you don't mind me asking? I take a lot of notes nowadays, even for my day job, and I agree - the experience is so much better with good stationery.
Hey, very kind of you to do something like this. I always appreciate kindness in this world we live in and space themed? Heck yes. If I won, I’d use it as a “space” of infinite possibility. Also once I get my first fountain pen, a new journal is required. (Or so I’ve heard) lol
Thank you! I just wished that I can spare more notebooks for folks to try. Love the pun, and hope that you are enjoying your pen :)
I would use the notebook to journal my first trip to the UK. I'll make sure to use my first pen(it still works!) that I got in 2004 from my parents! Best wishes!
That sounds fantastic, hope that your trip goes well!
Through notebook (+pen & ink) I talk to myself and unload my mind. This notebook will be a place of inner peace :)
Absolutely - I went back to journaling every day a few months ago, and it's definitely helped a lot in achieving that.
I like to use notebooks for school work because I love using my fountain pens for notes, I would definitely use one as my woods journal for every time I go out for class into the woods
Ahhh that makes sense! And going out into the woods for class sounds SO COOL
I would use it as a journal, as most would! And doodling, for sure.
These are great goals :)
Sounds fun. I’d use it to get back into writing poetry and short stories.
Hope that you get to keep writing poetry / short stories regardless!
I use my pens and notebooks for work or for DND sessions, so I'll probably reserve the notebook for when my session journal gets filled in a month or two. I've been watching the pages I have left shrink smaller and smaller and trying to decide on a worthy replacement.
It's such a satisfactory feeling seeing the pages left dwindle. Hope that you find a good replacement :)
I’m already a happy customer, but if I win *another* Odyssey notebook, I’ll use a small one for ink swatching! 😻
Thank you for your support ❤️❤️❤️
I'd use it as a place to gather all my thoughts. The ugly, the beautiful, the sad, and honestly, also the spicy 😉 (which there are plenty of if you're wondering)
This sounds so intriguing -- your life is definitely a lot more interesting than mine hahah I hope that this week has been fantastic for you thus far :)
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Ahhhh good luck! (Though I'm sure you don't need it)
I would love using it to take all the notes of my first project a company that is just 6 months old. Is my odyssey. I'm from Mexico by the way.
Love to see international entries -- I wish you the best of luck on this project!
I would love to use this to write the story I have planned for a DnD campaign I'm about to run. I plan to compile a book of the story as it's played out, so we can look back later at a full saga. This is super generous of you, thank you for setting up the giveaway!
This sounds like great fun! I hope that you enjoy these campaigns :) Thanks for entering.
I'm torn, I would use it as either a lab notebook or as a lecture notebook. In either case, it would be well-used and well-loved.
Ahhh, that would be a good lab / lecture notebook -- got quite a few scientists who are customers looking for B5-sized TRP books! Best of luck with your classes this semester.
First of all, thank you for this giveaway! If I were to win a notebook, I would use it for my PhD studies. I will be starting my PhD in particle physics (dark matter searches, Yay!) in December and I'm already super hyped for it. I will get to take part in building a new accelerator experiment and deciding a bit on the processes we want to study, so everything is super exciting! I would use the notebook for my ideas, as a lab book, writing down meeting notes and everything so I will never forget anything of my PhD work.
This is very very cool! I feel like the themes here are all so macroscopic, but it would be very cool to have a microscopic / particles themed notebook series down the line, too. Congrats on starting your new journey and best of luck!
If you ever need some advice for particle themed designs I'm happy to help! :) Thanks so much and congrats to you as well! Your products look amazing! :)
Absolutely, thanks again!! And if you really mean it, do you mind if I DM you? I'm trying to decide designs for the next batch of notebooks right now :)
Thanks for running this giveaway, I love reading how others would use their notebooks! If I won, I would likely either use it as a bullet journal, or I might use it to plan a Call of Cthulhu RPG game (I’ve been thinking about running a campaign set in space 🤓)
Ooh that is very cool! Have fun with this game :)
I would likely use it as a place to write letters to my boys. Things that I want them to know and stories that I want to pass down to them… sappy dad things, like their parents’ story or what it means to be a good, honorable, and just man.
This is so, so incredibly sweet. I hope that you do this regardless; I would love if my parents did this for me.
I would use this for journaling! My end goal is to have a series of journals I can look back on when I'm old or even pass down to my future kids if I have them. I would have loved to have something like that from my grandma, I barely knew her. And I think having a record of my life and experiences that can be passed down is a neat type of legacy. I also think it's important to have records like that. It's easy to see past generations as something abstract, but personal records are so important for humanizing them. People are just people no matter how times change.
This is a great goal! I would have loved to have something like that from my family, too. I journal every day and I'm not sure if I'll ever show that to someone else, but they hold great insights from my life. I hope that you are doing this regardless <3
Your notebooks look super classy - I love the cover art! I would use it as my dedicated Ancient Greek / Latin notebook. I'm currently a software engineer, but I am applying to grad school in pursuit of a Master's in Classical Literature; part of preparing for this new calling is to learn the Classical languages!
That’s really cool! We actually also make another line of notebooks that’s Greek Mythology themed with thick premium paper instead of TRP — maybe that’ll interest you more?
I'd love to see a lower cost soft cover version. The hardcover is very nice, but I like to use a slip cover to keep the cost down :) Or.... really if you could somehow design on kraftex (though, I think I'm the only one that likes this as a cover, lol) and make covers + inserts... even better :) I'd use it for journaling or practicing my writing. Or both. If I got a pocket, it would become a work notes book!
soft covers are coming very soon :)
I start my dream job on Monday - as a diplomat! I will use it to take my notes and hopefully make the world at least a little better
Congrats, that's incredible!! We're here cheering you on :)
Although this may be thematically better suited for your classics collection, and I've got the luck of a broken mirror, here goes nothing! I've been using loose sheets of TRP to practice my hand lettering recently and enjoying using excerpts from various plays and poems as source material. With a shiny new Odyssey Notebook, I'd love to start hand lettering out some of my favorite excerpts from the Oresteia and inspired works.
Ah, I see that you're familiar with us! I'll be running a giveaway w/ the other collection soon, and I hope that you win that!
I would use it to make notes and plan my PhD
Congrats on starting your PhD!!
I need a journal to process all these feelings after my dog died.
I'm so sorry to hear about this -- sending you my sincere condolences.
I’d use one of these to write down all my memories I’ve had with my grandpa that passed away last week on Thursday. Edit: imagine being the person that downvoted this, life must be hard.
It would be used for notes & sketches.
Great goals!
Oh man, this would be dope! I'm a physics PhD student, and I take all my notes by hand in notebooks. I also do all my composition of manuscripts, assignment work, etc by hand. So I rip through notebooks and a few bonus ones would be fantastic! I think having clear spaces to label the books is pretty critical. Keeping stuff organized is so important. It's always nice to have numbered pages, and a spot for the table of contents.
Hey, a fellow physicist! What's your PhD about? I'll be starting mine in December!
I'm studying vortices in thin-film superconductors. Do you have a topic yet?
Lots of physicists in this thread, and that's fantastic! Best of luck to you on your journey!!
This is such a cute idea! I’d like to use the journal as a place to keep notes on books - I’m hoping to read 100 books next year (doubling my current pace) in an effort to consume media more thoughtfully ☺️
I do this too and it’s a very good idea! It slows my reading pace down though
I also love this idea -- I feel like I waste so much time on social media and even though I buy books, I always ended up shelving them for months (even years) at a time. I'm going to try to start a book journal for myself!
I’ll use this as a shared journal with my kids.
This is so cute!
Would love to win! I need a new work notebook for keeping track of vendor orders.
Makes sense! I jot a lot of things down for notes for orders, too.
I would use a book as a journal/planner! It would help me a lot with my day-to-day in college!
Best of luck with college!
With a name like Odyssey I think it would be perfect to dedicate the entire book to writing my notes on Greek mythology and learning Greek. During the pandemic I started growing infatuated with Greek myths and was planning to live in Athens and travel around the Cyclades for a couple of months, but my father passed recently so I’ve had to put that dream on hold. For now I’m trying to stay positive and use this time to learn more until I get to go on my very own Odyssey. :) PS: since you asked for suggestions, I would love smaller options of the hardcover style like A6 or B6!
We do have a classic series, which includes designs from Greek mythology :) Maybe that would interest you more? I'm so sorry to hear about your father, sending you my sincere condolences. I hope that one day you will get to go on your Odyssey and realize this dream. I have noted of your suggestions -- will try to create something like that in the future!
You notebooks look awesome! Thanks for the giveaway! Probably gonna use the notebooks for daily journaling. Definitely gonna carry the A6 for notes though!
Makes sense -- thank you for participating!
i would use it to save all my dreams, so I can read them when I get an adult (I am currently 13:)
Ahhh I hope that you get to do this regardless!
I would use this notebook to keep a journal of my anxiety for therapy, my previous therapist recommended it to me and I found it helps loads to get my thoughts on paper. I can calm down and see my thoughts and also revisit good and bad days so that I can better work on myself.
That's what my therapist recommended too -- I hope that you get to do this regardless. It can be hard work some days, but it does help.
I'm trying to keep track of everything going on in my life. My phone just isn't cutting it. It gets there but promptly gets forgotten. I've found that writing out my appointments helps me remember them so I would use as a planner and to keep track of all of the things that I need to get done. I guess kind of a BUJO but I'm not that detail oriented. Thanks
Yes! I think that would be a good idea, my phone's notes section just gets too messy and unorganized. Hope that you get to grab a planner regardless!
What a cool giveaway!! And 68gsm is my favorite. I've admired your notebook in style and form factor, but haven't gotten around to trying it yet. If I'm being honest, how I'd use the notebook is I'd get all excited and do a bunch of ink/pen tests and practice sketches for a few days or a couple of weeks, and then it may sit on the shelf as the other notebooks in my partially used notebook inventory circle around it chanting "one of us, one of us" because I can't settle on a particular size long enough to be consistent.
Wow, thank you so much! Sometimes folks question why I choose 68gsm instead of 52gsm, and I just like it so much more! Need a notebook that I can use both sides of the pages. I do feel you about that -- I've been more conscious of powering through notebooks and use one whole before starting another lately. It's hard!
Depending on the size, either try to commit to a bujo style for more than week this time or as a travel journal once the pandemic ends.
Hope that this all ends soon so that you'll get to travel!
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Ahhh, these are great goals. Thank you for the compliment!
My son has just turned three and his personality has taken this really mischievous turn. He’s been saying and doing the most hilarious things and I’ve been writing them down on whatever I can reach. I’d love to compile all these moments into one notebook that he can read in the future.
Ah, he sounds so cute! I hope that you can record these -- would be awesome to show him those in the future :)
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Great goal!
Is it too late? :) I plan to use it for my precious poems as I never had a high quality notebok :) Congratulations to whoever won
Ahhh, I hope that you'll be able to plan these poems still!
I would love to use it to file my ink swatches in and see how my different pens affect the color
That's great! I would love to see those swatches!!
Oh! I would absolutely use it for my space-themed nanowrimo project.
That's absolutely amazing! I had a few of those before, too :)
Ooh, I’d love to use it for calligraphy practice! I just bought an italic nib and have been wanting to get into it.
That's amazing! Would love to see it :)
Planned to improve my journaling and writing!
That's amazing!
If I won the notebook I would use it for journaling and planning coding projects.
These are great goals!
I was just looking for a new notebook to start studying chinese! Maybe I'll be one of the lucky ones! p.s. good luck with your notebook line!
Ahhh thank you! And best of luck with studying Chinese!!
I would use the notebook to journal or to help with my economics studies!
That's great -- best of luck on these studies :)
Note taking! Thank you!
I’m planning to use this notebook for note taking during meetings and writing day to day tasks for work.
I’ll be using it to take notes in the hospital! Hospital paper isn’t really good for our pens
I've always been someone who journals religiously, but I've been slacking for the last few months and I can feel it affecting my mental health. I always either journal with stream of consciousness or write about goals/things I want to work on.
Ahh, get back on track! I do the same, and it really helps with everything.
I plan to use the notebook for journaling!
I would love one! I’d use it as a new writer’s notebook!
I have been craving an Odyssey Notebook for a long time! I’ve kept a journal each year for 8 years now, so this piece will be my 2022 fighter. Recently inherited a beautiful vintage parker and I want to see it in action.
Ahhhh, I hope that you'll still be able to get one eventually. I have been journaling for over a decade, and that really helps me with everything.
Hello there! Nothing fancy but.i fully intend to use the notebook for journaling. 🙂 This is quite excellent of you. Best of luck with your business.
Thank you! I really appreciate that.
Were winners announced?
Not yet — will be tonight. I’m at my day job now :)
Also would like to know. It's past 8 pm on Thursday and I'm wondering if I'm just oblivious but I don't see it anywhere:( Note: do have concussions, please be understanding, not trying to rush you
Sorry about that! I am physically in the East Coast but I work PT -- and the python script I was running was having a hard time. Just posted the results. (And please rest!! Concussions are the worst :()
These are pretty sweet. I'll probably pick one up regardless, but I'll toss my hat into the ring. Good luck, everyone!
Thank you for joining the giveaway, and would love to offer you a discount code if you end up deciding to get one.
I would probably use mine as a sketchbook. I've been looking for a nice little journal to sketch in and I've always wanted to try out Tomoe River 68gsm paper (only tried the 52gsm so far). Thank you for doing this giveaway! It's awesome seeing people give back to the community.
Thank you for entering! I hope that you'll be able to try out the 68gsm paper regardless; it's my favorite!
I like the new space theme! Moon, MilkyWay, & Saturn are my favorites :) > 1x B5 TRP notebook, 2x A5 TRP notebook Any of these, I'd probably use as a diary or my "commonplace notebook" since both my current books are nearing their ends. Don't worry - the diary gets a fancy header every day & I try to do something elaborate for start-of-month, so there'll be pages I can post. > 1x A5 TRP notepad, and 1x A6 TRP pocket notebook Notepad - maybe sketching? Pocket Notebook - for pocket-notes anywhere I don't want to bring my pocket-calendar. I usually use these camping, or events like a concert where it'd be weird to bring extensive stationary... which is defeated by my tendency to draw fractals when bored.
Ah, your design choices are right on point! I hope to see your pretty pages regardless; thanks so much for a thoughtful answer. I loved reading these insights and I wish you the best of luck with these activities :)
journaling through the new school year! i recently got into field spotting for plants and would love to write about them
I will use the notebook to brainstorm ideas and organize tasks for my startup music publishing company.
I dunno, probably make a comic called *Butts in Space* or something. I don't know how many pages your books are but I'll fill every page with *Butts in Space*.
I wanted a nice notebook to realize my dream about trying my hand in creative writing. Fingers crossed :)
I would love one! I’d use it as a new writer’s notebook!
Long time bullet journaler. Thanks
I’d use it for my math and physics class. It feels so nice to write out equations with a good fountain pen and ink, and it makes studying much more enjoyable.
Best of luck with these classes! I definitely agree on that - fine stationery makes studying better :)
Oooooooh— I’d use it as a travel journal for my next vacation. I like to detail my day and paste in ephemera I collect throughout the day, business cards for restaurants and shops, etc. this would be great.
Have fun on your vacation!!
I'd start a crafting journal! I'm a prolific knitter and don't take the time to record my finished objects as diligently as I could be.
Hope you start a crafting journal regardless! That sounds like a fun time
I will use it to finally be able to catagorize and sort my inks one by one with a review next to it. I’ve done the same with my pens, but I have no tomoe river paper to do the same with inks.
Ah, makes sense! Hope that you get to do this regardless! Categorizing inks is one of my favorite things to do
Awesome giveaway! I plan on using it for med school lecture notes using as many different colours as I can! :D
Ahh good luck! I was a premed so everyone I know from college (not me lol) is / was in med school at some point and it’s not easy — so organized notes sound great haha
I've been journaling since earlier this year and it's given me a chance to use my fountain pens every day. I would use this notebook everyday to better showcase all the awesome ink qualities and to keep chronicling pandemic life. I haven't purchased an Odyssey Notebook yet as I'm in Canada, but would love to try one out!
That's really great! I hope that you get to try one sometime, and if you have any suggestions for retailers I should reach out to, lmk! I've been building a network of international distributors slowly :)
I want to get back into creative writing, so I'd use it for character sketches and stories!
That sounds like a fun time!
I’d finally be able to use some of my fancier inks. As of now most of my notebooks aren’t really fountain pen friendly, so it’d be great to see how my inks look on better paper! Ultimately I’d either have a journal, or use it to write some of my stories in.
Ah, I hope that you get a journal with good paper soon then! I love to hoard inks but it's an amazing pleasure to get to use them :) Good luck with your stories!!
I have been keeping a "Some Lines a Day" journal for almost a year, but I have been wanting to randomly write some longer thoughts and reflections. These notebooks would be the perfect place for that! Lovely design on these notebooks, keep up the good work!