Based on the MD Notebook, Midori's MD diary collection is simple and easy to use to stimulate your creativity. It keeps the notebook’s cover visible to show off the collection of art, washi tapes, and stickers applied to it. Based on the golden ratio, the notebooks are shorter in length and evoke the appearance of 19th and 20th century French canvases. Midori MD Notebook series capture the essence and the minimalism of Japan, alongside its long tradition of paper making and quality craftsmanship.

As a result, the paper is bleed-resistant, feather-resistant, and fountain-pen friendly, giving the user a pleasant writing experience.Designed deliberately with no cover but instead with a cheesecloth mesh tape appended to the spine in plain sight, a coloured bookmark and index label sticker, this A5 notebook with 176 pages is designed with a minimalist approach for ease of use to enhance the enjoyment of writing. Included with the Notebook is three index tabs (“Idea”, “Diary” and a bank one) as well as larger sticker offering more details about the book, especially if it is but on notebook of many and when you start and finish it. These notebooks, like the fountain pen, have a simplicity and minimalism about them with a natural homely feel to them. There is not even a cover as such: the spine is protected by a simple strip of cloth tape, which is hidden in 'normal' notebooks, and you can even see where the page marker has been secured! Every 5 and 10 squares are marked, making it easy to count how many characters are written, and the lines of the grid are pale blue so that they will not interfere with your writing or sketches.

The corner on the unglued side is cut out, so it is easy to tell which side to pull from when it is time to remove a sheet. Instead, the bottom corners of the covers and pages are perforated so that they can be torn off as the notebook is filled up. Made of tear-resistant material, the paper cover prevents the notebook from gathering scuffs while providing a pleasant texture in the hand. Robert Oster Bondi Blue: This ink is a moderate saturation and moderately wet ink with good lubrication that presents with a low moderate amount of sheen that occurs at the edge of where the ink pools and can show with various degrees of saturation.While the notebooks are quite different, although the MD paper found in these Midori MD notebooks is the same paper used in the Midori Traveler's Notebook. It has a tiny amount of feedback that keeps you connected with the paper but is otherwise well lubricated and quite smooth. Midori I remember as the original company that brought us Traveler’s Notebooks (I still have a Midori branded Traveler’s Notebook) but in 2015 Midori spun out their Traveler’s Company brand. It shows a strong golden-green sheen (almost bicolour) on the swatch but more limited and subtle sheen on the writing.