The Kaweco line of fountain pens have always been like this black hole in my collection. I never got into them getting started and it was first this year I started to look into them.

So, I got a regular Red Sport earlier this week. I liked it. I think their EF nibs are great for Germans. As it doesn’t feel like a medium.

Then I decided to get another the other day. So I found a AL in Purple.

This one I like much more than the plastic one. Really love that it has more weight to it. Got it with a medium nib, but also ordered a EF replacement nib at the same time.

It might end up as something I use a lot in the pen loop of my Passport Travelers Notebook.

Everyone knows where this leads right? I’ll probably get a brass one when I order something the next time

There are a few things about planners that makes zero sense to me, that I just have accepted. And a few of them were brought back to my attention on a recent Pen Addiction. Not sure if it was on the one on the Relay or on the one you get access to if you are a member on the blog. Probably the latter.

The guest complained about how it makes zero sense that you have all the monthly pages in one section, and then the weekly in another and daily in a third. And I could not agree more.

When I was attempting to use a binder, but gave up on it partly because I didn’t like it that much. Might have liked it better with a Plotter, was to have a system where I just had a month spread, a week spread, a bunch of days and maybe the month/week spreads for the previous and next.

I get the complexities of doing it like this. But it would work so much better for me if my planner was organized chronological like this.

The guest on the show did their own layouts on plain notebooks, but my ADHD brain don’t have the time and focus to get into that.

I’d also love to have more planners that was much less than the entire year. When I work in my Hobonichi at the most I’m looking at:

• Last/Current/Previous month/week
• 5 days back
• 5 days forward

But I’m always carrying 356 days of daily pages, 52 weeks of weekly pages and 12 months of monthly pages. This is a big part of why I’m going to go with an avec for next year to at least cut it in half.

I guess I’m not alone about having spent stupid amounts of time looking at their Analog system. And like everyone should know at this point is that there is only a question of time before I get into it.

However.

I think the system itself is very interesting. Especially the combination of their regular card system plus the new week stuff. But there are a few things about it that annoys me.

The weekly cards should have had 7 equal columns instead of the stupid small ones for the weekend. And there is no carry story for them like there are for the regular cards.

So if (or rather when) I were to use this I would have to get a pair of both stands to be able to have a productive setup both at home and in the office.

I wish there was discounted kits that accounted for this, I assume to be rather common setup.

There are so much cool stuff in their store though. And I really love that they are trying to do something very different from the rest of the planning and friends industry.

After the Dingbats notebooks didn’t work out that well for me I decided to get some top ring bound dot pads from Rhodia.

They work much better for me. First and foremost because it is much easier to tear off pages. And also because their design is much more out of the way.

Not a perfect solution though. What I feel more and more like is to have a setup where I can re-arrange pages as needed. Not sure where it will lead

This is a weird thing I do. In some periods I buy a lot of pens, notebooks and inks. And in other periods I don’t. I just use what I have until it runs out before I start buying things again.

It is especially true for things that both take up a lot of room and are “consumable” in lack of a better word. Like paper and ink.

Funny story.

With my hit lists I always experiment with different formats and layouts of doing it. Usually because I want to waste as little paper as possible, while making them as non intimidating as possible.

Some times I just use them as you expect. One column in regular portrait orientation. Other times I use two columns in either portrait or horizontal orientation. Lately I’ve used them in portrait but divided them in four.

What is hilarious about this is that I have basically turned A5 sheets into four index cards.

I guess all of us have flipped over a bottle of ink and emptied it over our desk or counter or whatever.

I have a bunch of times.

It used to bother me. These days I feel more like relief. One step closer to reasonable amount of ink in the closet.

When I started my recent stunt of just emptying all my pens it lasted until I emptied the last EF pen and after 2-3 days I inked up my Pilot Custom 823 again. But the project are still going strong, as it remains the only pen I’ve inked up.

For the most part I’m not someone who cares too much about matching pens with inks. But sometimes I do.

The only time I can think of where I did so was when I first had some other color in my Pink Lamy Safari, and had to flush it out and ink it up with something pink.

Not sure if it was a one time thing or if I’m becoming one of those weirdos