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The Field Notes Film Festival is June 23rd

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Movie Night

May 12, 2025 by HQ

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Starting with a stop-motion recap in 2009, we have produced films to accompany the launch of almost all of our Quarterly Editions. We are currently editing a film, shot in The Rocky Mountains, for our next seasonal release, our 67th.

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“Note to Self” Contest Winners

“Folks use Field Notes for all kinds of reasons but almost everyone uses them, at least occasionally, to jot down reminders to themself and I’m betting that we all use language and abbreviations that only we understand. What’s something you’ve written in a Field Notes Memo Book that makes perfect sense to you but would be completely mysterious, and maybe even poetic, to someone else reading it?” – Mar. 19th, 2025

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Staple Day 18

TLDR Version: 2025, Boxers, Subscribe, Pen & Press, The Rooster, Bi-Coastal, Commonplace, Contest. – Mar. 10th, 2025

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Special Offers

Revise, Refresh, Restock

We’ve updated a few of our standard products and have restocked some others. While they last, get a FREE 2025 Work Station Calendar (regularly $19.95) and free USA shipping when you spend $75 or more. No coupon codes. No BS. Just spend $75 and you’re in. So you know, we only have a few hundred Calendars left. – Feb. 11th, 2025

Staple Day 17 - And sometimes your wife will be looking for something to write down a shopping list and find Little Mermaid draft lyrics in the tiny notebook next to the scissors.

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Staple Day 17

TLDR Version: Looking Ahead, Promises to Keep, LMM, Looking Back, Commonplace, HQ, Currently. – Feb. 5th, 2025

Staple Day 16 - The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

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Staple Day 16

TLDR Version: Looking Ahead, Archive Packs, Joan (Again), No Erasing, So Bright, Amid Old Paintings, One Touch of Nature, 20ish. – Jan. 14th, 2025

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Field Notes / Field Notes Brand Books

Twenty Years of Kraft

The anniversary date of “Field Notes” varies a bit, depending on who you ask. Aaron Draplin first used the name (typeset, of course, in all-caps Futura Bold) on a customized one-off red hardcover notebook in 2002. Our “official line” sets the birth of the company in mid-2007, when Coudal Partners and Aaron first printed a batch of 3-Packs for the “Swap Meat,” followed shortly by the establishment of “Field Notes Brand” as an actual thing. – Jan. 14th, 2025

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