Nero's Notes

Craig is the Star in ‘DarkStar Collection’. We were selling Craig’s first notebook editions back in late 2016, as PocketNotebooks, and have continued ever since. We asked Craig our usual questions…Why did you start designing notebooks?  I hated that I could only write on one side of the page due to paper quality and bleed through – that was the first thing I went after, paper quality.What’s behind your design?I’m unfussy. I like the design to be stripped down. Minimalist, but instantly recognisable as DarkStar Collection.Who are your notebooks for?Anyone who wants a high quality notebook, at a fair price....

    The new oil.    Apparently.   Soon, every customer of Nero’s Notes will receive correspondence from us on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I daresay that most of you are already receiving lots of them from other companies.   Before we get that out to you, I wanted to explain what data we collect, and how we use it, in what I hope, will be plain and simple language.   When you make a purchase on the store, several things happen.    1.  You provide your name, address and email address. You might even give a phone...

April is drawing to an end. Easter has been and gone. Winter went, then returned, went again, returned again and now finally seems banished. Pocketnotebooks became Nero’s Notes, Stuart revised his planning system at least twice and found another way to hear his own voice - on 1857.The Trigg Life-Mapper was a big hit and Nomad notes took off like a scalded cat.We continue to work the website, focused on improved navigation and imagery. Its been a learning experience for Clare and Stuart, but both can now open Adobe without actually breaking anything. There’s still a way to go, but we’re...

In my last blog post, I wrote about delivery costs and how there was no such thing as 'free' delivery. A regular customer, Rosario, commented. He was frustrated that 'international' customers always bore the brunt of delivery charges - in effect, subsidising domestic customers who were not paying a delivery charge. I thought about his response.  He was right. Where we were absorbing delivery costs entirely on domestic shipping over a threshold, we were conversely passing on ALL delivery cost to international customers. That's not fair.  So we have changed it. Shipping costs for all zones have been reduced, with...

Here at Nero's Notes, we offer free UK shipping on orders above £13.50. For international orders, we charge, according to weight. (We will ship anywhere, subject to being able to get a price for it, so if your country isn't listed, just drop us a note.) Operating a web shop, you have to consider, and devise, a shipping policy.Research will tells us that people don’t like paying for postage and packing. Apparently, we like to see a single price and pay it.Of course, that’s no problem. All we need to do is find a courier to deliver our goods worldwide...