Well, my Trinote came today in the mail today 
Thank you to Karen from Exaclair!
Things I like:
1. The paper quality <3 This is why I wanted a Quo Vadis planner to begin with. I was looking at Moleskine planners but eventually decided that I wanted nicer paper. Since I’ve started college I’ve been using Clairefontaine and Rhodia notebooks (what with the expensive pens, pencils, notepads, computer peripherals, etc. the school store must make a lot of money off of me =_=. I justify it by telling myself that it helps me study…) and after having used their paper it’s hard to go back. The Trinote, especially, I think, has really beautiful paper. Really smooth, and holds up well to all sorts of pens. There isn’t any feathering or leaking to the other side of the paper when you write. Generally I use a Pentel Slicci 03, which can have some issues with digging into paper, but I had no problems with this paper. I also tried using a Staedtler fineliner, and it worked beautifully.
2. I like the general format of the Trinote, with one week covering two pages, and days going down in vertical columns, much better than the other kind of paragraph-style that a lot of planners seem to use. It’s not like I’m a corporate executive or have a huge amount of appointments, but it is still nice to be able to plan out your day with a pre-made format, rather than having just blank space. The room for notes at the bottom of each column for each day is also a nice detail. The design also has a sort of open and uncluttered aesthetic, partially from the variation of font, which I like.
3. The cover: it is just plain black imitation leather, but it’s well made. It is also unmarked. I always feel a little irritated when my planners or notebooks have conspicuous brand markings – I want to have a planner, not to be product placement. And that’s exactly what this is: a nice, discreet, planner. Also, the cover has a little overhang over the actual pages, which is important so that the pages inside don’t get beat up.
4. Nice details. There is a little address book attached to the planner at the back cover, which is a nice touch. At the bottom corners, there are little triangles of the page to be torn off to keep your place. With my other planner, I was either folding the upper corners down or using a binder clip to keep my place. There are also some very nice maps of the US, Europe, Asia, etc. I’m not really sure how much I’ll be using those ^^ but they are nice nonetheless.
Things I didn’t like as much:
1. From quovadisblog.com I’ve seen that a lot of people have had complaints about this planner, especially about the font; I guess I can see their point about the font. I haven’t had the previous format of the Trinote planner, so I can’t judge exactly, but I have a Visual Exacompta that I purchased before I knew I would be getting this one, and the font is much classier looking in the Visual. I would probably prefer to have the Trinote with a different font. However, that being said, I don’t think the font in the new Trinote is that bad. It kind of goes along with the open aesthetic that I mentioned earlier, with the sort of simplistic lines of the font.
2. There are two pages of receipts/payments…the maps are one thing, but I really don’t think most people will be using this planner to track their purchases. This is functionally completely useless to me, and I would rather have extra space for notes. Of course, there are other kinds of people who use the Trinote, so it may be useful to them ^^
3. The way that the tear-off corners work. I really like having these to keep my place, but I’m wondering if there isn’t some better way to design this. Currently there are little holes punched in a line, forming a triangle to be torn off at the bottom corner of the pages; when I rip these off, I have to be pretty careful, and it feels like it wouldn’t be hard to tear the page along with the corner – which is important, since the next week is on that page.
Overall, my quibbles with the design of this planner are pretty minor ^^. I really like this planner, and will definitely be using it over the year!
