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n house totes for notebooks and pens february 24 2026 nifty notebook 5 comments over the last couple of years it s gotten to the point where i m carrying quite a few notebooks around the house with me even if i m not using every single one of these notebooks constantly i know i might want to so i like to keep them close at hand and then i want to keep a bunch of pens handy and my phone plus my reading glasses and a chapstick and some other stuff til i realized i couldn t just be juggling all these things every time i moved from one room to another i needed a bag and it turns out folks on the internet have already come up with a name for such a thing the house tote also known as a house purse but before i realized there was a word for it i spotted a solution for my little problem and it was already sitting right in my utility closet this little bag was a free extra that came with a duluth trading company tool bag that my partner bought for carrying pottery supplies i knew these little bags were used by contractors to hold nails and screws or other small bits but i had to do a little research to figure out that they are called parachute bags duluth calls theirs a part achute bag this one is made with a squarish shape and it actually worked surprisingly well as a tote for my notebooks pens phone and glasses because it s quite small and the inner divided compartments keep everything upright visible and accessible i could even keep my chapstick handy in the outside pocket it can get a little unbalanced depending on how you load it the shape of the inner compartments wasn t 100 ideal for my purposes but it basically worked the only thing that was a little annoying was carrying it around by the single central loop handle it s made for hanging on a belt so it doesn t feel quite natural to just grab with your hand i wasn t terribly bothered by it but my partner thought it looked really awkward and decided to give me a much nicer bag as a christmas present the soolla studio bag now this is a really great art supply bag it is so sturdily constructed and has pockets and slots galore i stuck all my pens in the outside slots and loved how easy it was to access them there was plenty of room inside for all my goodies plus i started adding whatever magazines and books i was currently reading the bag very comfortably held a hardcover book a paperback book a magazine or two all my notebooks phone glasses and chapstick and i could have stuck a water bottle and a bunch of other stuff in there too and therein lay the problem it was a little too spacious despite all the pockets none of them was quite the right fit to keep my notebooks standing up like they did in the duluth bag so i had to fish around for them in the bottom of the large central area having my pens and glasses in the outer pockets made the sides of the bag flop over if the main compartment wasn t full the soolla bag is made of a wonderfully soft material that feels very durable but isn t meant to have a stiff structure except for the bottom and all the slots and pockets were just a wee bit too deep for my chapstick so i kept forgetting which one it was in it s a really nice bag but it s meant to be stuffed with art supplies it just wasn t right for my house tote needs i ll definitely be re purposing it for something else i was poking around various websites looking at other totes and parachute bags most of the totes looked too big parachute bags are great for markers and pens but most of them seem to have smaller compartments than the duluth version and because they are round they aren t ideal for notebooks even if the pockets are big enough i even started noodling around with some ideas for designing my own perfect house tote but couldn t imagine where i d be able to get such a thing made then i went to l l bean and saw the mini size boat and tote bag i ve used their larger size totebags for years they are so light and durable they re great for many purposes i d never used a small one but i realized that this tiny size was exactly what i needed as a house tote it measures about 7 x 10 x 6 the canvas is stiff enough not to flop over and though it lacks any pockets or compartments my stuff stays pretty well organized inside without getting lost the one problem was the chapstick and pens and i considered buying some sort of purse organizer to give me more compartments but i realized that i could take a pen case i already owned and use that to hold some pens and my glasses and its little inner pocket made a perfectly accessible spot for my chapstick the handles on the l l bean bag are short enough that if i stick a hardcover book in there it gets a little crowded a full size water bottle might also get a little cramped but my micro size hydroflask fits just fine overall i m quite happy with this solution i found a few similar options that look like they might be worth a try most classic canvas tote bags don t come as small as l l bean s mini such as land s end s small size which measures 13 5 w x 5 5 d x 9 h but otherwise it s quite close this tuobo bag from amazon looks like a good size and it has some compartments as well as the option to carry it with a shoulder strap the iwieiairi where do they come up with these names small tote bag looks similar now that i ve started using a house tote i m not sure i ll ever stop i may even add some more supplies to it like small scissors and one of my favorite glue sticks and maybe some index cards and extra bookmarks aside from having an easy way to carry all my notebooks and pens it s just nice to feel like i have all my little necessities within arm s reach at all times art supplies bags daily carry diary edc everyday carry house purse house tote notebook organization pen case pens sketchbook tote bag diary journal personal record keeping keeping a notebook vs keeping a diary february 19 2026 nifty notebook 7 comments i shared this article on instagram recently but wanted to write more about it here don t keep a diary embrace the fragments of real life instead the author daniel poppick talks about how diaries are often kept in a way that can sound a bit stilted or self conscious i ve never consistently kept a diary on the rare occasions i ve tried the voice that emerges is that of a different person a clunky wooden avatar by turns stifled and overly performative poppick found that keeping a less structured notebook worked better for him over time a shift in approach loosened me up rather than keeping a diary i started keeping notebooks where a diary constructs narrative character and voice a notebook is inherently fragmented allowing for unexpected glimmers of serendipitous juxtaposition and lyric voltage it is at once a less restricted form and one that renders perception more precisely it has always been more generative for my writing more comfortable more surprising for me the ideal approach is something in between i love finding cryptic phrases and jotting in my notebooks things that i might have overheard or observed somewhere or that came to me in a dream poppick sees these random notebook entries as sometimes telling us a truer story about our lives at that moment than if we d tried to narrate it in a diary entry while i agree that they can be amusing and inspiring sometimes they are just mysterious they might trigger a memory but in themselves they don t tell the full story and when i re read my notebooks i want the full story for most of my life i haven t really kept a proper diary and in retrospect i wish i had i would love to have more of a record of what i thought about major events in my childhood and teenage years or at least have a record of being an oblivious self involved kid who didn t think much about those things for the past 20 or so years i ve made more of an effort to at least jot a few words about historic events even if it s a bit delayed after 9 11 i wrote a sentence or two about feeling unsettled and shaken up but otherwise i was more focused on other matters i jotted a few snapshot memories of the aftermath but i never recorded what happened that day a few years later i had more of a habit of dated diary journal entries and i remember realizing that i really should record my 9 11 memories before they faded and i belatedly wrote down all the details i could remember of my experience in nyc that day other big events like the blackout in august 2003 went completely unmentioned i remember quite a few things about that day but others are blurry so i wish i had made an effort to record the details at the time by 2008 i was in a more regular diary habit and wrote a few lines about the financial crisis and obama being elected but most of my writing was still about my own thoughts feelings and activities when i re read my diary entries i don t feel like that voice isn t me i m not always happy with what i was doing and thinking but my diaristic brain dump voice seems to be pretty consistent over the years i never tried to make it artful writing i did do some creative writing but i kept it totally separate and maybe that s what s at the root of poppick s discontent with his diaries if you are using your diary as part of a practice of creative writing you re more likely to be trying out styles and voices and trying to craft something literary maybe that makes it a less authentic representation of your actual life for me a combination of random notebook entries and diary journal style entries has worked well to capture who i was what i did and at least a little bit of what was happening in the world around me even if these writings have no value as literature i d love to hear from others about the voice and style of their diary keeping vs notebook keeping please chime in with a comment daniel poppick diary journal memory new york times notebook writing posts navigation 1 2 248 next search this site what i m using now tags addict addict of the week art artist books cahier collection composition book 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