This have been my daily carry for a while now. How much of it I bring depends on the situation. I usually bring either one or two pen cases. Usually the senseBag case and the Nock.co Sinclair.

In either case I usually have a gel pen, currently 0.4 mm Zebra Sarasha Clip, one wider nib and a finer nib. The finer nib is for general writing and the wider one is for underlining and drawing boxes around things.

I also always have a pen stuck in the loop of my Hobonichi cover to keep it shut, this is often my Pilot Custom 823. And I always have my Vanishing Point with an EF nib unit in my Nock Co Seed A5 notebook cover.

The most used pens in addition to those two is my Sailor Pro Gear F and my TWSBI VAC700R EF for general writing, plus my FC Pocket 66 with a music nib and my Lamy 2000 M as the underlining and drawing pens.

I usually go with them because they just work and have plenty of ink. When I’m at home I often do more of a whatever I feel like using from my pile of inked up pens.

The Lamy Safari found itself in the Hobonichi loop a lot when I was testing out that, and I suspect it will become a part of my regular carry very soon.

I first tried the Lamy Safari as my second fountain pen many years ago. It’s probably more or less 10 years since then.

Recently I decided to give it another shot. Partly because my views and preferences have changed a lot since then. And the colors (for the Safari and AL line) is much better (but why can’t I get a fun Lamy 2000?!) than some (looking at you Pilot…).

So, I ordered a Pink one, plus a converter and a replacement EF nib because I didn’t find one with a nib I wanted.

The pen itself is great. Looks kind of goofy, the pink wasn’t really the kind if prefer, but still better than having a black pen.

My views on the grip section have changed and kind of not in the last 10 years. I don’t have it as much as I did back then, and I don’t deem it unusable. But I still find it to be a bit annoying.

The EF nib is good, but I’d prefer it if it actually felt like a real EF nib and not more like something between a F and M.

I will probably get more of them, when I see a cool color.

And the converter is great, sits really well in the pen, is well made and has room for plenty of ink.

I have no idea what this product is actually called. Seems like most places I can find it call it something else. The brand is “senseBag” and they’re mad by a German company called “transotype”.

I picked it up at my go to place to order stuff Tudos, I what I’m looking for there, if I can, because they’re located here in Norway. Nice to support local businesses, plus faster shipping and I don’t have to deal with import related things.

It was inexpensive and looked interesting.

It is just a really simple pen case, that can fit around three pens, less if you’re wide, more if they’re skinny. For me it usually ends up being 3. This is the kind of product I often use a lot, because there isn’t really anything fancy or amazing about it. It’s just made to do a thing and it does it well.

I’ll probably end up buying another one of these at some point.

After the post I published last week I got an e-mail from a reader that tipped me about Dingbats Wildelife notebooks. All the pages are perforated. I’ll start playing around with it as soon as I get the one I ordered in the mail.

If this doesn’t work out I’ll probably try using the top ring bond dot grid notebooks from Rhodia.

Not long after I published the last posts I just found a knife and started to mess around with cutting out pages from my Leuchtturm1917 A5 notebooks, and it works, kind of. But I’m not fund of the results.

So that will not be a thing I’ll continue doing.

When I use a notebook that is either lined or dotted, I almost always would prefer to be able to just tear off pages as I’m done with them.

Like now I’m looking at a A5 Leuchtturm1917 dot grid notebook at page 114 and 115; it is my bullet journal. I would have removed most of the pages before that, if it was easy to do so. First and foremost because there are a lot of pages in there that are completed or irrelevant and I think it is much easier to deal with things when you just remove all the cruft.

I could just kind of tear them out or cut them out. And it is something I have considered, but never actually attempted to do.

For me most of my notebooks are not something I keep, but rather just something I use as a tool right now. And I just throw them out when I’m done with them. And I’d really like to just kind of do that as I’m working my way through them. This is the reason I always use Rhoda pads for everything where I don’t want to be able to look at both A5 pages at the same time.

As I’ve been more and more needing to do more and more preparation work when ever I have the time to do it and not relying to have the time to do it as the day starts I’ve gradually migrated my bullet journaling setup to more fit within that.

At the moment I usually keep the same setup for a week before migrating it.

I still use the first two pages as a status thing for goals and such. Then I do daily pages, where I reserve 4 pages for each day, and then non day specific projects in a projects section at the end. Some of them are plain projects, while others are things I want to do each week, month etc.

Currently I like it, and it works well enough. And makes me focus on the daily. The way I use it is that I review the status page each day, then I do the checklist stuff I have pre populated each day with. And then I add more stuff to it after that as needed. And move on to projects when all the Day-page related stuff are done.

The setup entails more page waste than I prefer. But I haven’t really found anything analog that could fix that issue.

I have looked for this so many times. Why aren’t there packing cubes for notebooks? I’d love to just have a few of them for bringing all my notebooks and gears between home and the office. A few because I’d like to layer it, one with the most important and a few additional for the stuff I sometimes bring.

I can’t be the only crazy ass weirdo who brings a bunch of notebooks, some pens, some other related accessories to the office every single day.

I’m a huge fan of having everything digital, but mostly working from analog. What I mean by working from analog is that I copy my agenda from digital calendars to my Hobonichi, I move tasks from my task manager to my bullet journal usually 2-3 A5 pages at a time, and use that plus a super short list of next 5-10 actions to work from.

Why does this work? The reason it works for me is that my hit list is usually what I intend to spend the next 15-30 minutes on. And my bullet journal is just the selection that I decided was the most important to deal with right now.

It makes what I work on intentional, plus it makes it really focused because I usually only look at my task manager every 1-3 hours. It makes it much easier for me to work focused on closing projects. Plus it also makes it obvious when I don’t complete projects and have to move them to the next day.

It doesn’t hurt that my notebooks don’t have social media apps.