Sometimes I’m this place where I’m bringing like 10 pens with me to work every single day. Plus too many notebooks etc

Recently I have felt like getting back into a place where it is more like two regular pens and two fountain pens; plus my two pocket notebook fountain pens just in case. And just the notebooks I need.

In general the stuff I always bring in addition to my pocket notebook is my two Hobonichi A5 notebooks, plus a Rhodia pad and sometimes my common place notebook. Plus sometimes my Theme Journal and 5 year journal when I don’t have time to fill them out the day before

The moment I started to mess around with the multi pen that came with my 2024 Hobonichi was the moment that I knew this would become my next rabbit hole.

I just: Fuck. Multipens? Really?!

I guess there will be some gel ink based multi pen related stuff the next time I order something wrong JetPens.

When I was ordering my Hobonichi I bought two of these rubber bands they had in the accessories section. They seemed like a less annoying solution to keeping my Hobonichi covers closed in bags without having to always stick a pen through both pen loops.

After a few weeks of use they absolutely are. They are also kind of large, so I can just also kind of use one of them to keep both of my Hobonichi notebooks closed.

Really awesome. Would prefer better packing cubes like products for carrying multiple notebooks though. |

For everyone who orders their Hobonichi planners from the 1101.com store are familiar with the multi pen you get with your order.

I’ve usually just thrown them out, because what am I going to do with that. But this year I gave it a spin.

It is some rebranded Uni rollerball multi pen. Not something I’m that excepted about per say. But I just went this would be nice if it was good gel ink refill. And I just fuck, is this what I’m going to start looking into now?!

Nothing wrong with the pen though, and a lot better than all of the multi pens my 3 year old daughter have insisted on getting when in various stores.

For the longest time I had to order everything pen and paper related that I liked from foreign sites. Typically US ones because it always ended up being cheaper or less complicated.

Then at some point Tudos showed up, and I slowly started to order most stuff from there as their offering expanded.

When I fucked up my Hobonichi order last month I discovered Lush Dive. And they have some of the same stuff and a bunch of other things I like. I’ll be checking them out some more moving forward.

Great to have more local ish options available.

I got another stand from IKEA, this time it is the Vivalla.

Funny thing. This is marketed as a tablet stand, and it works as that, but it works way better as a book stand.

I got one for my home desk, originally to put my iPad in, but since that didn’t work that well I have a book or notebook in it. Most of the time it is my Hobonichi or my Bullet Journal.

I’d love to have a version of this that works with a bit thiccer books for the kitchen.

I can see myself getting more of these, and just having a bunch of notebook propped up open.

Right after posting the previous post on this I started to mess around with it some more to see where it is useful.

It worked really well as a stand for my Kindle. Also worked with my iPad Pro, except that I had to remove it from a case for it to fit. Other than that really good for it.

The only thing that makes a bit vary of it is how slippery it is. I get why that is since you have one size groove on one side and another on the other. Still I’d have to find some anti slide stuff to put on them if I’m going to use it.

In this ongoing process of me buying random phone stands at IKEA, I’ve gotten to a weird, old, one. This is the kind that is basically just a block of wood with one groove on each side with different widths. Useful for making phones, and probably other types of screens stand on your desk.

I’ve only tested this one with my iPhone 14 Pro Max. So might work differently with other devices, and I guess this one worked way better back when phones had more space between the edge and the screen.

Anyways. I like the idea of this product, and I would have used it and most likely gotten more of them, if it wasn’t for the fact that the edge of it covers the part of the screen I have to swipe to unlock my iPhone. Might work with my iPad or something else though.

Would love to see a modernized version of it.

I’ve been on and off index cards for years. I use them for a while and then I stop. Usually because I run out and don’t get to buying more of them.

I think they are great for some things, and not so great for others. They are awesome for capturing singular items, and making short todo lists. But I don’t like them once you have stacks of connected cards.

It has been in the back of my mind for a while now to test out using index cards for my hit-list. First and foremost because they are so easy to carry and use in a way where you never have to transfer things over or carry half complete lists.