It’s 2025, we look at some year-starting notebooks, discuss how one might use the Notes app with paper notebooks, and share our slate of waddya gots. Ted’s audio changes a few minutes in, sorry about that!

On the Calculation of Volume by Solvej Balle

Octavia Books, New Orleans

Flights by olga tokarczuk

Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

Rose Matafeo

Lamy Hardcover notebook with Lamy ruling

Doane paper

Standard Memorandum 2025 by Word. and designed by Jon Contino

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In the last episode of 2024, we haphazardly bring the heat, rambling from one topic to the next. We range across used bookstores, endurance in art, a notebook of the week, and a exegesis on Sirius radio.

Becker’s Books

John K King Books, Detroit

Larry McMurtry: A Life by Tracy Daugherty

BookedUP AC, originally Booked Up, Larry McMurtry’s bookstore in Archer City, Texas

White Lines notebooks

The Work of Art by Adam Moss

Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour

Take Note Patreon

Enter the Wizard

B&N Villain NYT 2022

B&N Back NYT 2023

B&N Back NYT Also 2023

Mainstreet Books Davidson

Vectors by James Richardson 

Glorious Exploits

Field Notes Vintage Edition

Boston General Store 

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We spend some time discussing writer Oliver Burkeman’s thoughts on time and tasks, but not before covering wood chipping wisdom, baked waiters, salsa spiciness, and fast food divorce.

Oliver Burkeman

Solemn Oath Field Notes

Papier Tigre

The Unfinished Notebook podcast

Staedtler Lumograph Pencils

Beer recommendations

Pentel Calme

General’s Color-Tex Pencil

Tombow ABT Pens

Tombow Unions Hat

Complicated Halloween party scenarios, track meets, notebook use cases, doing a little better every day: it’s all here this week.

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

Clairefontaine

John Cheever stories

Daily Stoic

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Jeremy Strong on Fresh Air

Jeremy Strong on WTF

Victory Brewing Company

Keep Honking I Also Am A Goose Bumper Sticker

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

The Birds and Trees of North America Field Notes

Claire Fontaine Classic Spiral

Rhodia Sewn Spine Rhodiarama Notebooks

Spiral Decomposition Notebook

Ryan Slie joins us as co-host this week for a rousing round of waddya gots and a discussion of NEW TEETH by Simon Rich. 

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New Teeth by Simon Rich

Hold Your Breath on Hulu

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Ted and Adam dig into the mailbag, the email bag: reading a week of emails from 2014 to see what we can learn from ourselves. Old brands, office pools, and errant invitations.

Al Pacino’s essay in the New Yorker

Main Street Books, Davidson, NC

Adam and Ted bring their notebooks to middle school and concert hall and to middle age. 

Help The Aged

2024 XOXO Field Notes

Demetrius Oliver's "Aerial"

Field Notes Glitch Edition

Field Notes Index Edition

The Third Man

Colson Whitehead's Weird Little List

How To Write A Mystery