Annotate Create brings you the Noto. A notebook for creativity. Clear the clutter and keep distractions out — so your ideas finally have space to thrive
The whiteboard is where the mess becomes the masterpiece
Before you create, your brain is full. The client brief. The three things you need to buy. The idea you had in the shower. All are competing for space. The whiteboard space is temporary.
Write it, wipe it, forget it.
Then open your notebook. That's where the thinking happens—where the mess becomes the masterpiece.
WHO ARE WE?
We're Andy and Vivien, and we spent decades in advertising — an industry that survives on ideas. Which made it all the more frustrating that every notebook we owned was mostly useless for the thing we needed it for.
Campaign ideas next to shopping lists. Strategy scribbles buried under meeting notes. The brief for a pitch was somewhere in an old book we hadn't opened in six months.
We believed a notebook could work harder. Not prettier. Not more expensive. Actually harder — designed around how creative people think, not just around how paper is made.
Nōto is the notebook we couldn't find. We hope it becomes the one you can't work without.
Noto’s Features
RE-USABLE WHITEBOARD
THREE BOOKMARKS
LAY FLAT BINDING
192 QUALITY ACID FREE PAGES
INTELLIGENT SIZE NOTEBOOK
DOT GRID DESIGN
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Clear your mental clutter before you create. The built-in whiteboard is for everything you need to write down and forget — to-dos, rough ideas, phone numbers. Wipe it clean. Now your pages are only for thinking worth keeping.
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Most notebooks are A5 because A5 is convenient to manufacture. Nōto is slightly larger — because a folded A4 page should fit inside without bending. Brief printouts, reference sheets, meeting handouts: they go in the notebook, not in a separate folder that gets lost. One size, chosen deliberately.
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Your three most important pages, always one move away. Use them for the brief you're building to, the idea you keep returning to, and wherever you are right now. No searching. No losing the thread.
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Ideas don't always arrive on pages. The protective case holds your notebook, loose notes, printouts, torn-out references, and the whiteboard marker — all the fragments that feed a creative process, kept together and ready.
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Designed for the way creatives actually work — sprawled across a desk, notebook held open with one hand. Lie it flat and it stays open. Write across both pages without fighting the spine. A small thing that makes a large difference across 192 pages of ideas.
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192 pages of acid-free, fountain pen-friendly paper. The dot grid adapts to how you think — write in straight lines, sketch freehand, map a system, plan a campaign. The dots guide without constraining. Made to last long after the final page is filled.
A notebook for creativity. Clear the clutter and keep distractions out — so your ideas finally have space to thrive
Frequently Asked Questions
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The Nōto Notebook, with the case, whiteboard pen and wipe cost £34. This includes P&P. Shipped by Amazon Prime.
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You can buy the notebook on Amazon Prime linked in our buttons throughout the website.
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You can contact us on annotatecreate@gmail.com
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Most notebooks are designed to hold information. Nōto is designed to support thinking. The built-in whiteboard is unique — no other premium notebook has it. The three bookmarks, the lay-flat binding, the fountain pen-friendly paper, and the protective case for loose notes make it a complete system, not just a place to write.
