Midori MD Notebook

For fountain pen friendly notebooks, try Leuchtturm, Clairefontaine, Rhodia or a whole host of Japanese brands such as Midori MD, Travellers Notebooks, Hobonichi, Jibun Techo, etc. Jetpens has great guides to notebooks options on their website. There is no reason to suffer Moleskines terrible and overpriced paper quality today with so many better options available for every use case.

I bought this notebook to use as a bullet journal with my fountain pens. Midori has a great reputation for being fountain pen friendly, which was why I chose it. Being less expensive than a Rhodia Webnotebook or most other notebooks with high-quality paper was also a perk. I love the gridded layout,...

I then discovered Midori MD notebooks at Maido in San Francisco, and they allow testing of most of the things they carry in store, including notebooks and a huge variety of fountain pens! They also have a giant swatch book for all the inks they carry, which was amazing. I really liked the Midori's simplistic design, the whole cover is just plain white thick cardstock with visible binding.

Freaking LOVE. Listed below are the nifty features I like, plus photos so you can see for yourself. 1) opens fairly flat, which is helpful 2) pages are good quality. Definitely can't withstand sharpie or double highlighting, but for my purposes it's just fine. (Pages are kind of cream colored) 3) lo...

* Prefer white pages vs ivory like the Rhodia. * I only use Ohto Flash Dry Gel Pen refills in my pens. Recently I've been using the Maruman Mnemosyne A4 at home, I really really enjoy the paper, too bad it doesnt come with a thicker cover and stiching. I've also been enjoying the Midori MD notebooks, they look and feel amazing but they wont really hold up unless you get the plastic cover (ugly) or the leather cover (expensive and a bit too much).

I use this notebook for journaling, but next semester in college, I will have to buy more. The notebook is A5 paper, so it is smaller than I am used to for marble notebooks. But this is an advantage to me, because they are are lighter, and when you have to carry it around on your back almost every d...

I’m a huge fan of Midori MD notebooks. The grid is 5mm. I use these notebooks almost exclusively with fountain pens and they perform exceptionally well.

I've been using moleskine grid notebooks for years, I love the quality of paper, the color, and the gridlines make a lot of my note taking much easier to organize. This is my first purchase of the Midori notebook, and while I can't tell you exactly what it is I like better about this book, what I ca...

I think it was partly because I’d never really finished an entire notebook from start to finish and the main way I got over it was to get some good but plain and relatively cheap notebooks (Midori MD, for example) and use those first, so it wasn’t a big deal if I ruined them because they’re easily replaceable. It helped me feel more confident about using the more special ones after a while, too.

These notebooks are absolutely fantastic! The paper is smooth and wonderful to write on, it has the right about of thickness, the grid lines are very helpful, and the book lies flat! I have been trying to get my friends into this notebook, to no avail! It is very easy for this wonderful little noteb...