Landon Pasby

Grids & Guides is exactly what it professes to be: the perfect notebook for visual thinkers. It's a well-made and aesthetically gorgeous notebook that oozes with quality. It's well worth your money. And I don't stand alone in harboring this opinion; just ask Molly Young of New York Magazine.* She wrote about Grids & Guides as part of New York Magazine's editor-curated The Strategist series, calling it "a notebook like no other notebook." Young describes Grids & Guides as "a keepsake, not a utility." I couldn't agree more. As a bonafide bibliophile who has an entrenched obsession with notebooks—an obsession so pronounced that it is probably clinical in some way (ha!)—I own an embarrassingly large number of notebooks. I'm a writer in both personal and professional contexts, so the vast majority of my notebooks are filled, from cover to cover, with the various ideas, thoughts, lists, memos, notes, brainstorms, memories, quotations, equations, and calculations that I have written in them over the years (you will never catch me without a notebook and a pen—no matter where I go). My Grids & Guides notebook is no exception, but it has the added uniqueness of various grid designs that allow me to jot down and visualize my ideas in the form of charts and tables and the like. Time and time again, this has proven very useful. There are many dozens, if not hundreds, of notebooks in my collection: hardcover notebooks, softcover notebooks, fancy notebooks, simple notebooks, ordinary notebooks, rare notebooks, blank-paged notebooks, lined notebooks, dotted notebooks, big notebooks, small notebooks, cheap notebooks, pricier notebooks, one-of-a-kind notebooks, customized notebooks, and any other typer of notebook you can imagine. My point in this regard is that out of all the notebooks that I own, Grids & Guides is easily one of my absolute favorites. If you're looking for something more than just a simple pad of paper, you can't possibly go wrong with Grids & Guides. * DISCLAIMER: Neither Young nor New York Magazine is associated with this review in any way, and I do not represent the views of Young or New York Magazine.