Exacompta/Quo Vadis - Space 17

[tlaine]

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Description from thedailyplanner.com:

Space 17 Soya-Lavender Blue

 

A sturdy & durable cover that looks & feels like leather. Saddle stitched. Weekly pocket planner with a full page for notes * Weekly appointments on left; full page for notes and reminders on right * 12 months weekly, January to December * 15 months monthly, October to December * 8 AM to 7 PM schedule * Light and easy to carry * Fine ivory paper - lightweight but exceptionally strong * 55g, acid-free paper * Annual and Monthly planning calendars for 2009 and 2010 * Tear-off corner opens to week in progress * Sewn binding * Separate address book insert * Refillable

Size: 3 1/2 x 7"

 

 

This planner cover is also a refillable one, so when I'm done with this years planner, I can go buy a refill which is really nice. The binding of the planner refills are sewn in signatures so it can lay flat when needed. I like the cover on mine, it feels nice to the touch and is a really pretty blue color. The cover appears to be very well made and has a sticker on the inside that says "Made in Poland," although, I think the actual calendar refills are made elsewhere, the label mine says "Printed and Bound in the U.S.A."

 

Upon opening the calendar, there is a place to put your name, phone numbers, address, business information, as well as emergency information if you want to fill it out. It has a list of all of the holidays in the US as well as other major world holidays for the year. There is also a page with weights and measures. In the back of the book towards the phone directory there is a page with the map of the US that has the Time Zones which I find very handy. Included in with the calendar is a pull out telephone and address directory that you can keep year after year, which is easy to remove if you do not want it, but I think it is very nice to have.

 

The first part of the planner is a view of the calendar by month. The second part is by each week of the year with lots of room for notes.

 

I did a sample writing page in the very back of the book that wasn't for anything in particular. The paper is made by Exacompta and is very smooth and very thin. But it did pretty well with some of my fountain pens. The really wet nibs didn't work out so well, but the finer ones worked wonderfully.

 

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(The smudges on the writing sample is not really the fault of the calendar, it was my hubbys fault, he accidentally bumped my arm right after I had started writing that last line there. The smudges from the Tulipe Noire ink happened at the same time but a couple of minutes after I wrote it, so that ink took quite a long time to dry.)

 

 

The wettest nibs did bleed through a very little bit, but they took forever to dry and actually didn't dry even after at least 10 minutes. I had to use a page to plot most of it off. I'm not sure if it's really the fault of the paper, or the ink in the pens because they had been sitting for almost a week or so unused. But still, I personally would not want to use really wet nibs. I had absolutely no feathering with any of the pens I used.

 

The finer nibs worked great and dried almost immediately. The medium nib took a few seconds to dry and rarely bled through, it was a bit wetter than the fine nib. I feel the most comfortable using these two fountain pens in the planner.

 

Here is a sample from a couple of pages in the calendar.

 

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Here is the next months view.

 

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At the top week on the calendar you can see the writing showing through the pages, you can see that the paper is very thin. I still find this calendar/planner very useful and the thin paper doesn't bother me at all, but it might others.

 

All in all, I really love this calendar/planner for what it is. It allows me to keep track of loads of information, in a calendar format as well as a weekly format. It is small enough I can just throw it in my purse or bag and carry it with me and it wont take up much room but holds a lot of information that I need. I will definitely buy more when the time comes and I would also consider purchasing other planners and journals by Quo Vadis/Exacompta.

 

With fountain pens it works great with fine nibs, although, I would not try or suggest using a really wet fountain pen in this book since the ink takes longer to dry which would result with lots of smudges, and maybe a tiny bit of bleed through.

 

I would also like to thank Karen Doherty the VP of Exaclair Marketing for providing me with this calendar to review.

 

www.exaclair.com

www.quovadisplanners.com

Edited December 18, 2008 by tlaine

[encre]

Great review! I like the shape of this planner- I gotta start working on my own review now (I received the Notor)!

[succubus]

I'm thinking of doing a review of my Minister (which I had purchased before this offer was made) since it's so different than the Space 17. I would have been happy to review other goodies, had I known that was an option - oh well.

[tlaine]

Thanks I plan on buying a Notor or one of the other journals they make. I really like this calendar planner.

[Silvermink]

I'm thinking of doing a review of my Minister (which I had purchased before this offer was made) since it's so different than the Space 17. I would have been happy to review other goodies, had I known that was an option - oh well.

 

I got a Minister from this offer myself, so I should be producing a review of it in the not-too-distant future.