Interpol fears this man. The Notebook cover killer

Way to go! Customize what really works and makes you feel good about writing and making notes.

Oh my god, I almost cried...it was hurting so bad, watching you, taking the hardcover off.....:face-purple-crying:🤣 I´m a Leuchtturm fan, been using them for 10 years for bullett journeling and journeling. I always find them cheap, for like 6/7 Euro at Tk Maxx. ALWAYS buy hardcovers... I love looking at them standing in my shelf, with the year sticker on them. AND THEY HAVE COVERS!!!!!!😆  I understand that you need them to be light weight, because you put them in a leather cover, but Leuchtturm has softcovers, too.
I  liked your video anyways... 😉

"I can't be arsed migrating things every 5 minutes" - I feel you! This is why I started using an A5 size traveler's notebook cover, because now I keep one insert for the stuff I know I'll need over and over again, and others for the daily stuff. This way I can change the daily log insert once it's finished, and still keep stuff I don't care to keep migrating in place.

I do love the Midori MD paper and I'll fight you to the death saying it's better than the Leuchturm! 😛 I'm not exactly a notebook snob per se but I do dislike Moleskine for their rubbish paper - even Extra Fine fountain pens bleed through!
My preference in order: Midori, Tomoe River, Clairefontaine, Leuchturm.

Very interesting, a sacrilege—but interesting! It’s great to see people sharing what works for them and giving other people ideas for what they can do!

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who does this! I've also inserted a few grid pages into the front (replacing the first bound bit of pages) so I can bullet journal at the front and longhand journal after. Love it! If we spend so much on then, we may as well make the work perfectly for us!

Looks like you are doing what works for you. Isn’t that what’s it’s all about? Good on you! Thanks for sharing. I’m coming from 100% digital notes and trying to get back to “analog” method. I really miss the creativity and the satisfaction paper notebooks give me.

I did not think I could withstand watching you take off the notebook cover, but it’s quite liberating!!! 😊

This is exactly what I’m thinking of doing too! Thank you for sharing this so I know it can be done easily.

Hi Martin, I have to say that I was slightly aghast when I realized that you were going to take the cover off the Leuchtturm, but as another roterfaden user I get it. I tend to use slimmer notebooks in my roterfaden, usually a muji A5 or a Stalogy half year. If you want the chunky notebook without the cover I would like to suggest replacing the endpapers with a light cardstock, maybe of the same weight as the roterfaden calendar. Replacing the endpapers is an easy process and I'm sure there are many tutorials on youtube. Really enjoyed the video!

You could also add a soft cover (just a piece of card stock or something similar) in case you ever wanted to take it out

The sound of the pages turning is soooooooooooo ASMR

Love your ingenuity, courage, and skills.

Talk about thinking outside the box, holy cow!!! Absolutely Brilliant!

A friend of mine does something similar to Moleskine soft cover books. She removes the paper signatures from the Moleskine and uses a paper cutter to trim off just enough of the paper to turn the signatures into looeleaf sheets. She then uses a 6 hole punch and puts them in her 6 ring A5 binder. While she has received a lot of "flack" for doing that: she says it works better for her. "Judge ye not a book by its cover." For her, the cover is not the notebook; but, what the pages and what is written or placed on them is what makes the notebook.

oh I love this thank you!  I also use a  leather "travelers" style notebook that I made for A5 inserts.  I like Leuchtturm for the obvious reason that it's good paper but also because I can get them locally very easily.  I prefer the soft cover because it makes more sense as an insert but it has far fewer pages than the hardback and as far as I know they also don't have a 120gsm option with the soft cover/paperback/whatever you want to call it.

This was very satisfying and made me laugh 😂 Thanks for sharing ❤

Well, I must say this is brilliant!  I'm definitely going to do it 👍

I understand this! What I do (and at least two other youtubers out there) will do is take a dated planner (like the Hobonichi), tear out the pages and hole punch them then put them in a 6 ring binder. That way you can carry just the next few weeks' worth of planner pages at once.

At some point I'd like to try keeping the planner pages to rebind them in the same cover at the end of the year...

It's so sad... My heart goes out to all the beautiful Leuchtturm covers that just end up discarded! XD
I'm glad you're getting what you need out of the paper, dude. That's what it's really all about.