Paperian Make-a-Memo Sticky Notes Review

(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Twitter. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!)

In my stationery life there is a tug-of-war between me searching for solutions for my "scattered small pieces of paper" problem and my indulgence in scattered small pieces of paper. This product allows me to indulge in that vice. Wee papers everywhere. Huzzah.

The Paperian Make-a-Memo Pads come in a variety of formats. There are to-do lists, shopping lists, ledgers, planners, and this handy review sheet. As a frequent reviewer of both stationery and books, it was the format that seemed most useful to me. It has five stars at the top for coloring in a review score and spaces for the date and a description. I found them immediately handy in reviewing the notes themselves.

Each pad contains 40 sticky notes. The paper is good quality, better than standard office sticky notes. It is coated in a way that makes liquid ink slow to dry, so it works best with ballpoint, rollerball, or pencils.

On the downside, the sticky isn't very sticky. If you want truly sticky sticky notes, these aren't them. However, I prefer gentler adhesive, especially if I'm using them in books or journals. Archivists hate sticky stuff! If I need a small piece of paper to stay put, that's what cute washi tape is for. (I have to justify my washi stash somehow.)

These wee memo pads cost $3.60 each at JetPens, which is a fantastic deal. It's right in that "I need to add a few dollars to get that sweet free shipping" range, and they're cute and useful at the same time. Perhaps a miss if you need super sticky notes, but if you're as addicted as I am to scattering your notes across a debris field of tiny paper, these are a fantastic addition to one's desk.

(JetPens provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)

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Paperian One Month Goal Tracker Review

(Sarah Read is an author, editor, yarn artist, and pen/paper/ink addict. You can find more about her at her website and on Twitter. And her latest book, The Atropine Tree, is now available!)

Hey, got any new goals? Need to track them? Is one of your goals to not spend ten hours a week designing your own habit trackers? Well, then! Take a look at the Paperian One Month Goal Tracker sheets. They come in three different formats: a grid, numbered shapes in a flowchart to fill in, and a numbered list. My brain loves grids, so that's what I got to try.

The pack contains twelve cards to get you through the year, six on a cream color and six on a tea color. The cardstock has an antiqued look to it that I like. They remind me a bit of vintage library catalog cards. There are lines to write your goals and wee rectangles to mark off every day of the month.

The cardstock is good quality and the cards are sturdy with rounded corners. They're sized well to use as a bookmark or put inside planners. But best of all, they do well with every kind of ink I tried on them. Everything from pencil to Sharpie to fountain pen worked like a dream.

I really like the modular format of these. It is, after all, just a card. Change your mind? Fresh card! Come up with a new goal mid-year? Fresh card! Want to keep track of your progress forever? Paste it in your journal! Want to forget this ever happened? Toss the card!

The twelve-pack of trackers is only $4.40 at Jetpens, which is a fabulously good deal. I would have expected the price to be higher, given the quality. I can think of all kinds of uses for them beyond standard habit tracking, as well. How about a color-coded temperature tracker for the year? An ink of the day square? Health notes, bar charts, etc... tons of uses.

I think I'll be using lots of these, and might even try the other formats to see what ways I can use those, too. I do, after all, have a lot of habits to be tracking. Some of them are even good.

(JetPens provided this product at no charge to The Pen Addict for review purposes.)

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