Take Note
208 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsTake Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.
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Episodes
Episode 57: Irregular Pentagon Actually
September 02, 2019 15:52 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBMindhunter Deerfeeder French school lunches Bringing Up Bébé Sharpie Pen Pigma Micron J Herbin Corail Des Tropiques Kiri-same Iroshizuku TWSBI ECO Aspara Elephant Jumbo Pencils Kutsuwa Metal Pencil Caps Kutsuwa Highlighter Pencil Craft Design Technology Pencil Cap
Episode 56: What You See in the Circus
August 26, 2019 17:39 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBAdam and Ted bring in the school year with a bevy of whaddya gots, checking in on the Wilco x Field Notes and Clairefontaine, extol what they’ve stuck with for years, and talk note-taking and page-ripping.
Sidenote: Chasing Papier in Paris
August 21, 2019 21:10 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MBTaking a different approach in this Sidenote, Ted takes you along his Parisian stationery excursion. With a reprieve from Paris through the kids-eye view, he takes inspiration from Flaneuse by Lauren Elkin, bouncing from the delightful Papier Tigre to the chic Papier Plus and the venerable Melodies Graphiques. Enjoy something a little different from Take Note, and let us know what you think and what else you’d find interesting.
Episode 55: An Audit of a '60s Dry Cleaner
August 16, 2019 04:22 - 40 minutes - 37 MBMonet's Garden in Giverny An American Band Spotify Wants Its Money Back Blackwing 42 Mitsubishi All-White Marksheet Flaneuse Papier Tigre Papier Plus Melodies Graphiques The Milk Room Monocle Summer Weekly Clairefontaine
Episode 54: The Weirdest Guy at the Museum
August 02, 2019 16:35 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBApocryphal Mark Twain Quotes Mineko Grimmer What Heard That? Cornell boxes at Menil James Turrell at MASS MoCA Leuchterm 1917 Bauhaus Ebbetsfield Tombow Unions Erasable #120 Erasabale #121
Episode 53: The Eleventh Pencil
July 24, 2019 12:21 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBWilco Ode to Joy Pre-Order with Pencil Wilco Case In Point Pencil Set Ode to Joy Cover Designed by Lawrence Azerrad Wilco X Field Notes Box Adam's current notebook & pen The Pawful Truth Schlitterbahn Uni-Ball Jetstream 1.0 The Daily Stoic If You're Angry, You're Part of the Problem Five-Year Diary by Tamara Shopsin Unable to Focus, OK with That
Episode 52: Office Parrot
July 12, 2019 03:35 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBField Notes Wilco edition from the Solid Sound festival Souldier Guitar Straps (and belts), Chicago, IL Field Notes Summer 2019 National Parks Edition Shawna X and the XOXO edition (Ted said Sherry X in the episode) Big Bend National Park Three Missions (see the video where they shoot a thing into space) Begin the Begin: REM's Early Years Slacker by Richard Linklater Seth on Design Matters that Adam didn't quote Emmanuel Carrere quoting Ludwig Borne: It’s a piece of advice given by...
Episode 51: Wilco X Field Notes
June 30, 2019 04:13 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBWilco X Field Notes Solid Sound Festival The Story Pirates Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy Take Note Episode 33 A Ghost is Born
Episode 50: Peak Pen Dad
June 24, 2019 19:29 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBR. Ryan Slie’s Fancy Chimpanzee Notebook Prompts by Adam Clairefontaine Collection 1951 Nanami Seven Seas Microdot notebook George Eliot “The Lifted Veil”
Episode 49: Pen-Losing Season
June 19, 2019 20:11 - 28 minutes - 26 MBField Notes Size-Wise Nanami Seven Seas Dromgoole's Baron Fig Desk Jotter Record Ranch at Cactus Music Consumer Guide to Music German Afternoons Mavis Staples on WTF Erasable Episode 118
Episode 48: Nib Nib Nib
June 06, 2019 19:04 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBTed is back from a trip to D.C. and ready to share, including a great trip to Jenni Bick Custom Journals. Adam is getting to know some Kaweco, known issues in tow. It's hurricane season, so let's take note. Hurricane Season Bellroy fanny pack/man purse...ahem…”sling” Mike Birbiglia, catsachusetts Jenni Bick Custom Journals in D.C. AROUND THE WORLD REFILLABLE LEATHER JOURNAL Brands: Leuchterm, Mnemosyne, Traveler’s, Frantic Meerkat Lamy Safari in red Kaweco AL All Black Kaweco Alumin...
Episode 47: Avert, Avert
May 16, 2019 04:57 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBLog+Jotter Paper-Ya on Granville Island Rollbahn limited edition Jenny Bick Steadfast Supply
Episode 46: Coffee & Tears
April 23, 2019 13:11 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThe Daily Stoic Neil Gaiman talks to Tim Ferriss about notebooks and fountain pens Log + Jotter Monthly Pocket Notebooks. The Standard Memorandum. BBC’s Start the Week with writer Ian McEwan
Episode 45: Sheep Egg
March 26, 2019 20:22 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBBowling Alone Guster "Overexcited" Terrace House: Opening New Doors A Country Doctor's Notebook Wolf Hall Be The Serpent The Stinging Fly Podcast Oisin Fagan
Episode 44: Basic Birds of American Highways
March 18, 2019 04:11 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MBEducated by Tara Westover Coca Cola Zero Sugar (warning: reading this press release may wither your soul) Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg Field Notes - End Papers Baron Fig Squire rollerball pen (charcoal) Portals Softcover notebooks Basic on urban dictionary takenote.space
Episode 43: Colonial Magician
March 07, 2019 05:03 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBThe 5-Year-Old Erasable Podcast CW Pencils Pencil Box Word. Notebooks Standard Memorandum Jon Contino Field Notes + Abercrombie and Fitch
Episode 42: Smiles Catastrophe
March 05, 2019 06:06 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBGrowing Pains Theme Train Ride Fun Kaweco Sport (Gray) Kum Two-Point Sharpener Pilot Vanishing Point LandLand x Field Notes EEEK Field Notes Ohto Horizon Pen & Refills
Episode 41: Adam Fixes the Internet
February 26, 2019 15:47 - 32 minutes - 15 MBIn this episode, Adam takes us on a journey through the Internet’s sad but sunny side, Ted preps for a stationery meetup at work and whiffs on an obvious — and hilarious — reference to The Office.
Episode 40: Hatin' on Suzanne
February 19, 2019 22:22 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MBField Notes Dead Print TWSBI Diamond 580 fountain pen Commerce Minded, Jim Coudal Blackwing Volume 4 - The Mars Edition The Web Vault What’s in Your Bag, Marlon James? - The Verge
Episode 39: Oilco Cards
February 06, 2019 20:48 - 35 minutes - 33.2 MBMemo Orange Kraft Field Notes (including Capsule 2016) Pentel Energel Field Notes Chicago Edition Uni-Ball Jetstream Orange Barrel Nick Bantock on the End of Griffin & Sabine NPR on urban ink forager Jason Logan New Yorker Talk of the Town: Ink Foraging in Central Park On Walking In Ice Tombow Unions Hat
Episode 38: Hadoken
January 30, 2019 22:02 - 36 minutes - 16.5 MBFlight suit fashion Famous Sams Fiction's Fake New Drugs David Means (Sir) ROD STEWART! Ikea pencils Muji Mindfulness in Plain English Rick Rubin
Episode 37: I Want to Discover Less and Less
January 21, 2019 22:39 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MB"Hallelujah" covers Thrill of the Hunt: Thrift Shopping for Pleasure Put This On Where do thoughts come from? Marie Kondo: What kind of pens spark joy? From the Take Note general counsel Isle of Dogs Is the 10-year Challenge meme harmless?
Episode 36: A Borges Lullaby
January 17, 2019 02:29 - 28 minutes - 12.8 MBSakura Jelly Roll .8 Erasable on Facebook CW Pencil Baseball Scoring pencil Deojon Hi-Mic The Perfect Nanny The New Yorker January 7, 2019
Episode 35: Joy to the Pen - A Givisode
December 14, 2018 19:51 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBBBC shipping forecast In Our Time podcast Erasable Podcast Camel HB pencil CW Scots Pine Blackwing 602 Lami Safari Valentino Achak Deng Foundation (A sharpened but unused 211 to the first person to donate $50 or more to the foundation. Confirm via Twitter or the contact form first if you'd like) Ohto Horizon Emilio Braga Cloud Notebook Stories of John Cheever Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Bellroy Work Folio A4 Topo Mountain Briefcase
Episode 34: Bale of Rights
December 11, 2018 22:47 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBL'Atalante Bullet Journal Rollbahn Wirecutter's Planner Picks Bullet Journal Pen Trick Getting Things Done Jay Ryan Aaron Draplin 11 Coolest Offices in Chicago Blackwing Vol. 4 Blackwing Vol. 73 CW Pencil Box Caran D'Ache Pencils from Noblewoods
Episode 33: Before the Last Nap
November 29, 2018 17:06 - 29.6 MBShow Notes Nirvana Unplugged Sport Clips (Ted’s full endorsement) Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back) by Jeff Tweedy Kitchen Sisters - Emily Dickinson episode Washington on the Brazos State Park Field Notes Clandestine edition
Episode 32: The Other Half of the Work
November 20, 2018 05:24 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBMilk and Honey (Chicago) Sheep dogs Morton Arboretum Troll Hunt Sedaris diaries Michael Chabon on Stan Lee
Episode 31: Takes Ink Well!
November 05, 2018 21:20 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB"Stepping Out" by David Sedaris George Saunders at Main Street Books Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers Goneril Word Notebooks "At the Dark End of the Street" "At the Bright Side of the Road" Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks Field Notes Pretty Much Everything Tall Wallet
Episode 30: Nap Champ
October 26, 2018 15:25 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBRyan sits in for Adam to discuss the latest from Field Notes and his journey into stationery.
Episode 28: The Attendee
October 08, 2018 04:01 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBJohn Ashbery Field Notes Three Missions Museum Hotel Cincinnati CW Pencils Baseball Scoring Pencil Goldfish Autocrat Blackwing Volume mathy math-game CW Pencils - The Pencil Box Quarterly Camel Pencil HB Baron Fig Mastermind Desktop Writing Pad
Episode 27: Silence the Aged
October 04, 2018 04:01 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBField Notes End Papers Field Notes Rams Other things
Episode 26: A Distinct Advantage
September 23, 2018 03:41 - 42.7 MBWerner Herzog Field Notes National Crop editions Field Nuts group on Facebook Adam’s National Crop edition photos on Twitter Slate’s Jemelle Bouie recommending the new Flintstones comic book Eunice Kennedy’s biography
Episode 25: The Stationery Manafort
September 14, 2018 01:09 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBHow Joseph Conrad foresaw the dark heart of Brexit Britain How does the internet work? Carlo Rovelli's "The Order of Time" Erasable 100 Confidant notebook Baron Fig Deskpad Baron Fig Wander Dream Journal Trolley Problem Emilio Braga Notebooks Erasable Episode 102 Literati Bookstore Saul Bellow Collected Non-Fiction Take Note Episode 23: Snappy Cousin, Etc. Ted's Pen Cup Brad Dowdy's Top 5 Pens
Episode 24: The Horse Got Confirmed
August 31, 2018 18:20 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBThe Best Show with Tom Scharpling Dixie Dude Ranch. Highly recommend! Prof. Keith Botsford: In Costa Rica, Built for Books and Breezes Samuel Pepys Brief Lives Rhodia No. 19 Ebbets Field Flannels - Fuji Athletic Club
Episode 23: Sniffles Question & Snappy Cousin
August 28, 2018 04:13 - 31 minutes - 30.3 MBMost likely the Kottke Black Hole link Greg Proops The Smartest Man in the World "My Life is a Joke" by Sheila Heti Plumbago How an Unproven Forensic Science Became a Courtroom Staple Field Notes No. 2 Woodgrain Pencil Doughboys Podcast Harry Connick Jr.
Episode 22: Oy V8
July 25, 2018 13:26 - 37.7 MBNatGeo on dreaming Blackwing Steinbeck edition Field Nuts on Facebook Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president’s Twitter
Episode 21: The Skulliverse - Opening and Closing the Doors of Time
July 23, 2018 21:15 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBFlaming Lips in Chicago The Cooking Gene The Swimmer Jordan Vogt-Roberts and the Attack on Skull Island
Episode 20: Bunkcast
July 13, 2018 13:25 - 33 minutes - 14.9 MBField Notes National Crop - Cotton Tombow Mono 4B Field Notes Front Page John Dickerson on using a reporter’s notebook Baron Fig Confidant Erasable podcast Keepin’ It 100 Wendell Berry Wendell Pierce The Daily Stoic CrazyHeart Strangler Bob by Denis Johnson
Episode 19: Robot Dad
July 08, 2018 18:38 - 31 minutes - 14.4 MBSamuel L. Jackson's "Icarus" monologue The Shape of Water Field Notes Three Missions Edition
Episode 18: Peter Plumbago Pirro
June 28, 2018 02:16 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBPre-order Plumbago Chip Rowe J.F. Pirro Archive
Episode 17: Beardos in the Crowd
June 07, 2018 13:38 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MBThe Truman Show The Cable Guy The Magic Kitten by Sue Bentley Brad Dowdy’s Pen Addict Podcast covering his Houston trip Baron Fig Confidant Beardo Sketching monkey with Viarco Terrace House: Opening New Doors The Standard Memorandum by Jon Contino and Word. Jon Contino Field Museum Field Notes Tamara Shopsin Field Notes Friday Film Festival Coudal Archive of Kubrick
Episode 16: The Dali Straw Man
June 01, 2018 04:03 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MBThere but for the grace of God go I Champagne Rodman's Instagram Laura Gwinn's Instagram Miatagrrl's Instagram Urban Sketchers Baron Fig Confidant TOIRO Beer Tumbler Breckenridge Brewery Vanilla Porter Cream Ale Blackwing 54 Exquisite Corpse
Episode 15: Time to Move On
May 24, 2018 01:05 - 35 minutes - 16 MBField Notes National Crop Edition, including “corn” A History of Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronic Band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Chicago 2001 setlist Karbach Brewing Co.’s Lemon and Ginger Radler Adam’s Blue Pencils blog post Caran d'Ache Edelweiss Cub 3030T General's Big Boy Bowler Goldfish Blue Bird Hester & Cook Majestic No. 2 Staedtler Mars Ergosoft Musgrove Tot Jumbo Tombow Mono 4B Uni Palette 2B Viarco Violetta Blackwing 73 - The Tahoe Pencil
Episode 14: From the Devil to the Grocery List
May 20, 2018 16:11 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBHands on a Hard Body (1997) Closed-Eye Hallucination The Hawaiians and the Dreadnought Guitar Field Notes National Crop Make Do Podcast Doughboys Podcast Left to Right Michael Hagan Johnny Gamber Gustav Kjellin on Dribble Brad Dowdy at Pen Addict pen pairings Billy Collins: Fishing on the Susquehanna in July Legend of Topo Chico
Episode 13: Flora or Fauna
May 10, 2018 04:23 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MBSugar Skulls in popular culture Burger Burger, Biloxi, MS What does the caption "produced with genetic engineering" mean? Sign up for the Notebook Prompts newsletter The Owls of Ga'Hoole Visit Houston
Episode 12: Fade 57
May 02, 2018 21:07 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBWhat is the exact technique for Transcendental Meditation? Tom Jones at the NPR Tiny Desk Uni-Ball 153 Field Notes Coastal Field Notes American Tradesman Current World Leaders When will we be able to speak with animals?
Episode 11: Too Few Prices, Too Many Princes
April 12, 2018 15:04 - 24 minutes - 11 MBLondon Parchment on Field Notes Coastal Edition Pencils and where to find them Isle of Dogs Grand Budapest Hotel Score George Saunders on Wilco Everything that Rises The brilliant redesign of the soda can tab Engineer guy's aluminum can video
Episode 10: Sedaris v. Intimidator
April 05, 2018 17:32 - 40 minutes - 55.2 MBSpecial guest: Adah Fitzgerald, owner of Main Street Books Davidson Tom Petty and Mudcrutch in Gainesville Edgar Odell Lovett Skull Island: Reign of Kong Shinola journals Elevator Pitch Generator David Sedaris will come to Davidson Author Vivian Howard Kannapolis Intimidators Notebook Prompts Theft by Finding by David Sedaris Calypso by David Sedaris Clairefontaine pocket notebook Field Notes Coastal Edition
Episode 9: Onused
March 28, 2018 04:15 - 45.5 MBIn a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Dromgoole’s Fine Writing, Houston, TX Clairefontaine pocket notebook Five Days, One Pen, penaddict.com Schon Design