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Panobook — A panoramic notebook for your desk.
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Fantastic aesthetics and subtle functionality. If you even thinking about digitizing these bad boys for digital archiving and lookup, get in touch. I've been working on something since ModNotebooks shut its doors.
Oh, I've been looking for a solution to this. Just bought a Rhodia top-bound pad (I love the dot-grid & paper) https://twitter.com/ideasasylum/... but this looks like it'll work even better. I'm left-handed so having the pad on the left of the keyboard makes it easy to take quick notes
@danprovost some people might think "making a notebook must be easy."
What kind of challenges did you encounter on this project?
@mijustin Hoy boy, that's what we thought too before we started. The biggest challenge was been squaring our desire for really nice materials with keeping it affordable. We thought the design we came up with was straightforward in terms of production, but it requires some processes that are challenging for some printers. When we got the very first quote back from a printer our jaws were on the floor, it was about 4x as expensive as we were expecting. It took a long time to find a combination of processes and materials that met our standards and didn't break the bank.
@danprovost it's interesting. I've heard a few folks saying: "Why is this project getting so much hype? It's just a notebook!"
To me, the market for this is the same market as folks who buy from Field Notes or Baron Fig.
Some folks want a super high-quality notepad (nice paper, well designed grid, thoughtful details).
Other folks don't care as much about that stuff.
This conversation between @kevinrose and @joerogan is a good illustration of the divide. 😉
https://overcast.fm/+uqozWY/2:50:10
These look amazing! I've ordered myself three, and I plan on using them to help plan and design my side projects! (usually iOS apps)
Wow, this looks pretty good. Love the focus on storyboarding and comic / game level layouts :)
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