Adam finds a tonic for spider bite, makes Uber conversation, Ted reads the Hobbit, Adam witnesses a short story, Ted passes a collision center. We also talk about the fun and potential of drawing little comics in our notebooks as more of a daily practice.

Ryan Slie joins Adam and Ted as they bring their notebooks back to the grocery store. Also, there's a few notebooks of the week and we've shared what we've learned over the last six years about stationery, keeping a notebook, and life.

Baseball writer and storyteller Paul Jackson of Project 3.18 joins us to discuss his project, wherein he serves up truly fabulous true stories from baseball’s past. The kind of stories you’ll tell and re-tell at fantasy baseball drafts.

One of us visited Belize. Which one? We may never know! We discuss the Field Notes Flora Edition, the pens we’ve been using, and ambivalence about a productivity app.

Trips to the museum, business dinners, digging into Ted’s pen haul from Jet Pens.

5K coffee, date night, some pens, some music, and our notebook of the week.

We dig into our book club read Vertigo by WG Sebald, share our notebook of the week, and more.

What have we got? Our first notebook of the week! Also: Ted is making stationery and Adam is recruited by a plumber.

The Vertigo by WG Sebald reading project continues, Adam pushes Mitt, and Ted has a denim jacket project.

The holidays are behind us and the holidays are just around the corner. Adam and Ted talk about books built on notebooks, books about music, and the Uber drivers of Dallas. If you could describe this episode in one word, we know which word you would choose.

Adam adjusts to getting glasses for distance and gives small business the business.

Ryan Slie joins us for this decasode to share new signs of good luck, brilliant interview questions, and solo bumper stickers. We also discuss the new Field Notes Heartland edition and… Borges invades?

Dapper Notes – Enon Avital’s unique, beautiful notebooks covered in lush paper and fabric and filled with excellent paper – occupy a special place in the notebook landscape. Brimming with color and texture, they elevate the pocket notebook to an art form, and the hand of their creator quite literally graces every book. Enon is that creator, and we had a lovely time learning why he started producing beautiful books, the pleasure he takes in sharing the process, and the care he takes in...

Adam and Ted spill the tea on Trader Joe's Candy Cane Tea, tiny notebooks, and sitting at the rock show.

Ted and Adam hone their predatory instincts by writing daily poems. Email us at [email protected]

Ted and Adam ruminate on the new Field Notes Birch edition and touch on the words of Robert Frost, Lebogang Mashile, Lemn Sissay, E.B. White, and Emily Wilson.

Ted and Adam navigate numerous potential false memories. Adam remembers his trip to Poland – and a unique stationery store – quite well. Adam also runs through a haul of Japanese stationery.

We make a plan for walking into a foreign stationery store, assess the newest Field Notes edition, and consider the Mraz of it all

Summer is almost over, so what could be more appropriate than breaking down the stories in the New Yorker’s summer fiction issue? Ryan Slie joins us, to our delight. Sign up for the Substack newsletter!

Our notebooks have been up and down the Eastern seaboard and our To-Do List has closed. We discuss Raymond Chandler and Lauren Groff.

Summer is in full swing as we read strange letters, overhear videos in strange places, look for Gogol in strange stores, and ever so much more.

Ryan Slie joins Adam and Ted for this decasode. We discuss how our stationery usage changes in the summer. Think: little league, the beach, and accessing the subconscious.

Adam reflects on his experience with Martin Amis, Adam’s archive is all screwed up, Ted bounces around San Francisco and reads a couple of books. And a correction: Ryan Slie was not reading Anna Karenina.