I mainly use this notebook because every pen I use looks amazing on it. However, it might depend on how hard you write, or how inky the pen is! Writing quality It’s thick and I’ve never experienced any pen bleed through the page. The quality of the paper is insane, I wasn’t expecting it to be as good as it is. ![]() The covers of both of my notebooks are still intact and doing well, and they get thrown about and shoved in draws quite frequently (sorry). The cover is really nice, and also sturdy. It also prevents you from straining your eyes to read the text between the traditional black lines. The point of this is to avoid distraction, making your notes or drawings stand out on the paper. I’ve never actually seen a notebook like this, it has white lines on a grey background, which is pretty interesting. The views expressed in this review are my own and have not been influenced by StudioAlt in any way.| Category: Reviews | By Carl-Philippe Carr They are new but have interesting plans for the future. Thank you to StudioAlt for sending me this notebook. If you regularly find yourself needing to scan your notes, this is a great system. ![]() Even if you do use fountain pens as much as I do, you may find the utility and efficiency of the app and notebook combination to be worthwhile. If you are a heavy fountain pen user you may want to think twice about this notebook but if you regularly use any other kind of pen you should be okay. I probably won’t get another one though, simply because I don’t need to scan that many pages in and I want to be able to use a wider variety of pens and inks. It does its job well and I’ll keep using it until the end. I’ve been using this notebook at work for a few weeks now. It’s better suited to other kinds of pen. It’s possible to use this notebook with fountain pens as long as you’re careful. Grey paper isn’t the best choice for showing off ink colours, either. Even some fine nibbed pens bled and feathered with many inks. I found a combination that worked for me (a broad nibbed Pilot Vanishing Point with Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki) but found it frustrating to be restricted in what I used. The paper is friendly to some fountain pens and inks. It’s well made, too, and unlikely to fall apart in a hurry. If you like orange, and how could you not, the colour scheme will appeal. There are labels you can stick onto the cover to aid with archiving. They have the usual cardboard back pocket, elastic band and bookmark ribbon. Leuchtturm notebooks always have contents pages and page numbers. ![]() The app, “Whitelines Link” is available for iOS and Android but only works with this notebook. There are other apps that will scan anything for you no matter what notebook you use but because they’re a little more general purpose they’re not quite as quick. There are squares you can tick at the bottom of a page to automatically send your scan to Dropbox, Evernote or email (or you can do this from the app manually). The idea of the grey page and white lines is that both disappear upon scanning leaving only your writing and drawing. The app uses the squares marked in each corner to orientate itself and quickly scan each page. It’s more or less a normal notebook but it comes with special markings on each page and an app, specially designed to bridge this analogue-digital divide. StudioAlt aim to bring analogue tools to the digital world and the Whitelines notebook couldn’t be more in that ballpark. I was sent this notebook by a new UK based company called StudioAlt. It costs about £11 in the UK and about $20 in the USA. The Leuchtturm1917 Whitelines notebook is a hardbacked A5 sized notebook with 250 pages.
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