Stationery🍕

I’ve had this book for a year and a half at this point.

There are a few things I look at to if a bag is good / great or just fine or even terrible.

Sometimes I look at the inks I have and wonder: when did I order ink last?

At the moment I have one proper eyedropper pen in use.

I used to keep all of my notebooks for a long time.

I haven’t written a lot about inks in a while.

I have two Coleto’s, and they are awesome; one with 5 colors and one with 4.

I guess more than 95% of my pen use is fountain pens and gel pens these days, and have been like that for years.

I often get into these phases where I write a lot about a thing.

I have written about this in the past, but thought it would be good to revisit this topic.

One of my favorite notebook accessories are various clips.

A while back one of the “bookmark” string inside my travelers notebook.

I was having one of those moments where I just: if I threw out cost and all realities like that — what would the ideal binder be for me?

In the world of notebook & paper systems we have binders, like Plotter and William Hannah; and notebook systems like Travelers Notebooks and a few others.

All the time I find myself splitting pages into sections that are similar to common index card sizes.

When I have a list of tasks, there have for a long time been an ideal size of it for me.

Because of reasons, partly money and being in that weird place between systems, I don’t use a dated analog planner at the moment.

I’ve been using pocket notebooks more or less daily for months at this point for the first time since COVID.

I was working at home the other day, and I could not find the cap for my Kaweco Sport Steel fountain pen.

During a recent episode of The Pen Addict podcast #657, they talked about Bullet Journaling and how it is a useful way to not let task management get out of hand.

My handwriting 90% of the time is horrendous.

I fell all out of using pocket notebooks during the pandemic.

After a year of not much to do at work, and income being as minimal, I went into February in a new job.

Been a while since I have written about my Daily Carry.

Recently I have felt like just kind of using up all I have and starting a set of inks.

I’ve been having a great time not buying new ink for the last year or so.

This is one of those topics that probably everyone disagrees with me no matter what I say.

In the middle of trying to be all digitally and all of that I ended up getting a pack of Index Cards while getting some other stuff at a book store.

I left paper planning because I was basically just doing the same digitally as I was doing on paper.

I’m always being pulled between different formats for my working notebook.

I’ve been using Travelers Notebooks a lot over the last few months.

I’m going to order a bible sized plotter as soon as I have room for it in my budget.

All my “systems” digital and analog have this weird tendency to just be additive.

I love the feeling when I get to the last page of a notebook and can finish it all up, get a new one and start fresh.

I was thinking the other day while using the Pilot Custom 823: if I could only have one fountain pen this would be it.

When I completed the first refill I started to do some minor changes to how I use it.

One of the reasons I usually wait until very late with ordering planners is that I usually go back and forth for a really long time before finally making up my mind.

When I’m writing or doing a lot of planning / list writing I take a Panobook and use it vertically.

The typical setup is that I use it horizontally, putting a vertical line at each 45mm mark, leaving me with six sections.

One of the sings something is a good fit for me is that I get back to using it multiple times.

When I first started to look for what Plotter to get I landed on the A5, just because that is what I always do.

So I was filling out this week goals today and I realized I’m about 50% into a refill, and thinking: already?!

I guess I have used part of it for a week now, and the whole thing for 5 ish days.

I just kind of got sick of dragging around a bunch of A5 notebooks, and ordered some refills for my Travelers Notebooks.

The thing I love about the ISO paper sizes, and in particular the A-size papers is that A0 is the biggest, if fold that page over you have two A1 pages, if you fold one of them over (after cutting it) you have two A2 pages etc.

I’m back to having a permeant desk at work for the first time since last June.

In a recent episode of The Pen Addict Podcast they talked about some weird recycled washi paper notebook.

The main reason I’m currently looking at going smaller than A5 for my main notebooks are simple.

The reason I’m so terribly slow with pulling the trigger on buying a binder is as always with me 2-5 reasons: I don’t have the money for it right now anyways There are a lot of other tasks getting one would put on me, knowing myself Plus that recently I s…

I did a small test the other week about if I need a separate daily planner or not.