Podcast

Take Note

Arts, Design, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

Take Note is a podcast and a blog about paying attention and keeping a notebook and occasionally Kong: Skull Island.

Design chart
#125
Episodes
96
Releases
Every two weeks
Typical length
32 min
On air since
2022
Latest episode
3 weeks ago

Episodes

96 episodes, newest first

  1. A Cruel, Cruel Game

    Episode 251

    Show notes

    Adam shares his “grand” European experiences. Ted shares his pencil conundra which spurs invigorating stationery conversation.

    Metric Coffee, Chicago

    Last One Laughing Season 2 with Richard Ayoade

    https://www.instagram.com/takenote_pod/

    28 min
  2. 1 hr 3 min
  3. The Last Tie saleseman in America

    Episode 249

    Show notes

    Yoseka Stationery, Brooklyn

    Ohto Fude pen

    Hitotoki ring notebook

    Maruman Spiral Note notebook

    27 min
  4. 41 min
  5. The Dennis Style

    Episode 247

    Show notes

    T-shirts, tats, and bumpers stickers are the currency of the realm; Adam observes a fellow named Dennis making the most of his notebook space; and we talk the new Field Notes Explore American series.

    leuchterm bullet journal pocket notebook

    john dickerson: the most important job in the world

    field notes: explore america

    printmaker dave bull

    31 min
  6. 32 min
  7. One Thing After Another

    Episode 245

    Show notes

    It’s the busy season. Some whaddya gots lead naturally into a discussion of free writing and half-conscious writing, and we discuss There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm.

    In Our Time podcast

    Music Box Theatre Chicago

    Clairefontaine My Essential notebook

    There is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

    They Do Not Always Remember by William Burroughs

  8. 35 min
  9. 30 min
  10. Metal Jaw

    Episode 242

    Show notes

    CW&T Mechanical Pencil

    Field Notes Expedition Edition

    BBC Start the Week - Fun and Games

    Brick

    James Acaster

    Piranesi - Don't read the blurb

    29 min
  11. The Best of the No-Good Louseys

    Episode 241

    Show notes

    Winter fashion influencer chat moves to beanie logo placement before travel to the armory, the library, and the horizontal pocket notebook.

    A Truce That is Not Peace by Miriam Toews

    The Hitch by Sara Levine

    Field Notes 1943

    31 min
  12. 37 min
  13. Idea of the Year

    Episode 239

    Show notes

    A Fairytale of Take Note.

    Kakou Collective

    Start the Week

    Oliver Sacks in the New Yorker

    Odd Lots: pizza place

    32 min
  14. Perhaps Without All the Beatings

    Episode 238

    Show notes

    Shot By Cheney

    Field Notes Fall Flowers

    Hatch Show Print Store

    The Lowdown

    25 min
  15. Talkin’ Twilight Override with Tim Wasem

    Episode 237

    Show notes

    Tim Wasem of the venerable Erasable Podcast to discussion, among other things, Jeff Tweedy’s new solo triple album, “Twilight Override.”

    Transcendence for Beginners by Clare Carlisle

    Field Notes Vintage

    Anvil Cards, Houston, TX

    Paper & Pencil Chicago

    https://www.erasable.us/episode/230

    Twilight Overdrive by Jeff Tweedy

    41 min
  16. 33 min
  17. Country Wizard

    Episode 235

    Show notes

    Do men like beef jerky? No more letters in Denmark. Watching people buy a weird amount of Monster/Red Bull from the Costco returns line. There’s nothing more punk than a public library. We explore how to be a curious conversationalist and engage in an expanded discussion of using a daily worksheet to help in focusing on what’s important at work.

    No more letters in Denmark

    Tom Sachs

    Austin Kleon

    32 min
  18. The Protein Era

    Episode 234

    Show notes

    Do men like beef jerky? No more letters in Denmark. Watching people buy a weird amount of Monster/Red Bull from the Costco returns line. There’s nothing more punk than a public library. We explore how to be a curious conversationalist and engage in an expanded discussion of using a daily worksheet to help in focusing on what’s important at work.

    No more letters in Denmark

    Tom Sachs

    Austin Kleon

    34 min
  19. 37 min
  20. The New Yorker Fiction Issue

    Episode 232

    Show notes

    Ryan joins us before the next decasode as we delve into three stories from the New Yorker’s Fiction issue (our 6th time doing it!). Alongside your regularly scheduled whaddya gots and summer beverages. A bit of saucy language…

    New Yorker Fiction issue (July 7-14, 2025)

    Happi THC seltzer

    49 min