It's important to understand that paper has a grain direction like wood and fabric. The paper's fibers run in the direction of either the length of the full sheet (grain long) or the width (grain ...

What’s old is now new, and the old-fashioned paper notebook has evolved in a way that not only might surprise you but might just make you more organized, productive, and efficient than even the best ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Innovators from Purdue University hope their new technology can help transform paper sheets from a notebook into a music player interface and make food packaging interactive.

2,000 years on, the notebook is still a great solution. From Muji to Moleskine, here’s how to choose a notebook that’s right for you. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to pick a good notebook.

I've had a long-running dream of entirely ditching my physical notebook for an E Ink tablet, but I've never been able to truly make it work. I first attempted this switch with the first generation ...

Contrary to popular belief, graph paper is not just for math class. The best graph paper notebooks are especially helpful for practicing sketches or lettering, bullet journaling, creating ...

Blame the crowded media landscape, blame the internet, or just blame my demanding cat, but it feels like finding focus is constantly shifting further out of reach. On the one hand, the rise of the ...

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his ...