The Apple Pencil turned the Duo into my new favorite notebook

October 30, 2026 Allison Johnson

If not notebook, why notebook shaped?

Apple's $2,000 folding phone is a surprisingly good stand-in for a $20 notebook.

Believe me; nothing gets me going quite like a new notebook. This one will be different, I think. This time, I really will take it everywhere. Inspiration can strike at any moment, and you have to be ready, says David Sedaris in that one MasterClass I watched on a flight. With this one special new notebook, I will see the world differently. I'll steal moments for myself to write, rather than pulling out my phone to scroll at every opportunity like a trained monkey. And a few weeks, a month, or maybe a year later, I'll concede that it didn't change everything an …

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