Why a notebook?

Indestructible and rechargeable

The notebook is often referred to as the icon of the creative, the symbol of the reporter, the poet, the writer, the illustrator… But why? What is the reason? If you think that the notebook is everything, it is not necessarily true. Using a notebook on a daily basis is educating yourself to a life habit. At first, you force yourself a little, little by little you get used to it, and then one day you can't do without it. It is used for everything, it is you who choose. It can be a support for taking various notes, a support for experimentation, a support for writing or automatic drawing… You have to meet the use that you will have of your notebook. Why adopt a notebook format rather than a notepad? Question of practicality depending on the use you make of it: some have very large notebooks, others have tiny ones. It is a question of ease, of mobility. This is why we offer you no less than 6 different notebook formats, from the small pocket notepad to the large office notebook!

How to choose your notebook?

You have to imagine the notebook, the object itself, as a mental extension of yourself. It will allow you to fix the little ideas that cross your mind for a quarter of a second in the street. Or on the contrary, you can spend a lot of time on your notebook, sitting on the terrace of a café, on a desk, in a waiting room, on a train, a car, a plane, on a horse ... Portrait, landscape, kraft cover, leather cover ...? Blank paper, with or without lines, with or without dots? The advantage of La Compagnie du Kraft notebooks is that you can try all the paper finishes without completely changing your notebook, you keep the cover (personalized or not) and you replace the inside sheets when you refill.

A travel diary

Often, when a notebook enthusiast discovers La Compagnie du Kraft, he asks us if we make travel notebooks. So we ask him the same question: what does a travel notebook mean to you? And often the answer is the same: I don't know! Of course, we are told a little about the material, the quality of the cover, a possible layout of the pages, but hey, a notebook remains a notebook. At the factory, we have a very precise idea of ​​the travel notebook, inherited from the use made by the Landes foresters of liaison notebooks, the ancestor of our productions. The notebook must withstand bad weather, not fall apart when the humidity is high: the use of glue is therefore prohibited. The travel notebook can have a paper or leather cover, but in any case must remain solid, very solid. In our case, the reinforced kraft covers are not hard-wearing, but they are puncture-proof, natural fibers oblige! As for our leather covers, no comment: you are in the world of saddlery, a vegetable-tanned leather that resists everything, for several generations. Let's summarize: a solid and durable notebook, repairable if your conditions of use are extreme, refillable, and whose writings are archivable. We then bring a certain idea of ​​the minimum ecological footprint while allowing you to have a highly personalized tool. Our notebooks - travel or not - are not available everywhere, but accessible from anywhere since they are on sale on our online site. So have a good trip, and don't forget: write, breathe...

A logbook

The Logbook by La Compagnie du Kraft is the most recent achievement of the French manufacturer. This logbook was initially designed to allow a very wide use: from a slightly organized diary to a slightly structured notebook that would complement a range of digital tools with more spontaneous writing - and less diffused! The success of this first logbook has never waned since its birth in 2012, but loyal users of the Logbook asked us to develop it into a diary, exclusively available for sale on our site. You now have the choice between 2 organization versions depending on the formats. And with a leather cover, it is easy to personalize. Refillable like all our notebooks, this logbook is quite complicated to produce and the quantities for sale are very limited, especially since the loyalty rate to its philosophy is considerable. The quantities of refills multiply each year, to the point that we are obliged to launch 2 equipment campaigns: in September and December. So out goes the personal diary, even if some testimonies tell us otherwise, and welcome to technology fans who want to keep a bit of themselves outside the cloud.

Get started!

Don't be afraid to waste a page, whether it's ugly or useless, because the first brake on your imagination is you! Don't believe that it will come from the sky either, but it's often by chance that things happen. So don't hesitate to look, observe, go out, visit... See the act of writing and illustration as an adventure! Write, breathe...