The Apple Pencil turned the Duo into my new favorite notebook

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="If not notebook, why notebook shaped?" data-portal-copyright="" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/DSC04364_processed.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> If not notebook, why notebook shaped? </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">Apple's $2,000 folding phone is a surprisingly good stand-in for a $20 notebook.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Believe me; nothing gets me going quite like a new notebook. <em>This</em> one will be different, I think. This time, I really will take it everywhere. Inspiration can strike at any moment, and you have to be ready, says David Sedaris in that one MasterClass I watched on a flight. With this one special new notebook, I will see the world differently. I'll steal moments for myself to write, rather than pulling out my phone to scroll at every opportunity like a trained monkey. And a few weeks, a month, or maybe a year later, I'll concede that it didn't change everything an …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1022894/iphone-duo-apple-pencil-hands-on">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>