2025-07-16 00:00
Sometimes I look at the inks I have and wonder: when did I order ink last?
It’s kind of weird how little ink I have bought over the last year and a half, and how much ink I still have left.
After what I can see from my order history in my e-mail I only have bought some Kaweco cartridges plus two bottles in 2025 and 2024; the purple one Lamy did last year and a bottle of Royal Blue Mont Blanc.
2025-07-15 00:00
At the moment I have one proper eyedropper pen in use. It is a Pocket 66 from Franklin- Christoph. And me, being me, I always fill it all what way up.
This means that the pen has a ridiculous amounts of ink in it. And I doubt I fill it more than 2 or 3 times a year even though I use it multiple times a week.
Love how ridiculous it is.
2025-07-08 00:00
I used to keep all of my notebooks for a long time.
For the longest time it took up a huge section of my book shelf. Then they lived in a big box. Then at some point I started to throw shit out.
First all the obviously “why the fuck am I keeping this?” Like todo lists and capture stuff. Slowly just getting rid of more or less everything.
There are one thing I keep and that is my common place journal that I write more or less for keeping.
All the rest goes in the bin when I’m done with them.
2025-07-01 00:00
I haven’t written a lot about inks in a while. Honestly I haven’t bought many inks in the last year, I think it’s like two bottles I’ve bought and I have only tried one of them.
Partly money and partly trying to use up most of what I have before I re-stock.
Here are some of the ink brands I really like and why:
Great colors, well lubricated and you can get them both in big and small bottles. The small bottles aren’t the best designed bottles, but the big one has a groove in the bottom that makes it easy to use more or less all of the ink in them.
Their ink bottles are huge, well designed and looks different. And they have some really great colors.
Also not expensive. The last time I checked the prices were around for 60ml.
I love their inks. There are so much to pick from, not expensive, but their bottles isn’t the best.
I have a bunch of Kaweco Sport’s in use (all in metal; also have some plastics I don’t use that much), and because of how useless their converters are I use cartridges in all of them.
The colors are pretty good, but nothing to write home about. But I’m a sucker for their 10-packs of different colors.
2025-06-24 00:00
I have two Coleto’s, and they are awesome; one with 5 colors and one with 4.
Love having multiple colors available, but also to be able to just jump to the next one if one of them runs out. Plus it’s so much fun to just order a pack of “all the colors” and just pick the first x within reach into a pen.
2025-06-17 00:00
I guess more than 95% of my pen use is fountain pens and gel pens these days, and have been like that for years.
Most of the time it is fountain pens. But I use gel pens a lot on the go or in meetings.
Over the last year or so my go to have been Pilot Coleto’s (0.5), some Pilot G2 (0.7) and some Pilot Hi-Tec-C (0.4).
Id prefer a Zebra Sarasa to the G2, but sometimes I can’t be bothered to order pens when there isn’t anything else on the shopping list.
2025-06-10 00:00
I often get into these phases where I write a lot about a thing.
Currently it is travelers notebooks, because for a long time it has been my main notebooks. Plus some Rhodia Dotpads on the side.
My current setup is one regular sized one, I think the color is Camel and a small one is in some dark greenish color. They are both the second one I own of both sizes.
No idea what happened to the first two.
The pocket sized one is that color because it is all I could find when I needed one. I’d probably get the Camel if it was available.
The passport sized one has become fairly custom over the last few months, I have replaced the bookmarked with a rainbow beading elastic band when it broke off, and I’ll probably do the same with the closing band soon.
Inside it I have two refills most of the time. Currently it is a dot grid and a lined one; usually it is two dot grid. But I found a half used lined I wanted to use up.
The regular sized one isn’t that custom yet, but I’ll probably do it soon ish there too.
Inside it I have a dot grid and a horizontal week calendar refill.
This works really well for me, at least until I have the money to get me a Plotter system.
2025-06-03 00:00
I have written about this in the past, but thought it would be good to revisit this topic.
When I started out buying specific pens I used to get the broadest possible gel ink pens I could find. Then I did the same with fountain pens. When I got into that.
What I loved was the feeling of a super smooth writing experience putting down a thick line of ink as I wrote.
It is still the experience I enjoy the most.
But these days I use everything from extra fine to broad and sub nibs.
What I have found is that more scratchy nibs makes it easier to control what I write.
So it all depends on the situation.
2025-05-27 00:00
One of my favorite notebook accessories are various clips. Either was something to keep notebooks shut. Or to keep them flat on the desk. Or to just stick together all the processed pages I don’t need to think about.
My all time favorite is the way too expensive ones from Travelers. I also have some magnetic ones from Oliblock and some huge ones I got from JetPens.
For a change I have included some links to them.
What I love about all of these, in addition to regular paper clips and binder clips is that they can be a really cheap way to make your notebooks work a lot better for you.
Links: