The main question about all these new organizational notebooks is whether or not they actually work. Looking at the figures may help illustrate this, Passion Planner for example, after raising $658,434 from 23,626 backers they launched another kickstarter campaign a year later, and raised another $706,287 from 16,335 backers,

A second example is on the Bullet Journal system, which can be used in any notebook of choice, people have created a Facebook group to show off images of their organized layouts, and talk about how great the system works. The main group currently has 142,000 members...

Finally, the Spark Notebook raised $138,573 from 4,253 backers on December 20, 2014, and after a large amount of positive feedback from the first campaign, Ms. Matsudaira launched a second campaign a year later called the Spark Planner, this time raising $460,602 from 13,263 backers. Over 200% increase in both backers and sales.

Reading the reviews of the ten notebooks listed in the organizational section, the word “love” appears in every single case. The owners of these analog tools take the extra time to comment and personally thank the creators that have created these books. Having used many of these notebooks personally, I can see why everyone loves them, the key is finding the right notebook for your own personal needs.

Let me know if I missed any good notebooks in the comments, and if you are looking for a great, blank notebook, we also have more to look at in the A5 size (5.8 x 8.3inches)

In case you are looking for a solid blank notebook, here are few more choices:

If you need a folio to hold one of the above notebooks, we ran a successful Kickstarter campaign that holds any A5 size notebook (5.8 x 8.3 in), a tablet or sketchpad, as well as two writing tools. These are all on sale right now at our shop.