I’ve recently gotten really into the heavier metal Kawco Pens. So not so much the aluminum kind, but I have a Brass one, and recently I got a steel one. Both of them have a really nice heft to them that I love.

Both of them immediately became go to pens days after getting them.

Luckily there aren’t too many heavy ones available

I got this pen a while back after looking for another pen like my Kaweco Sport Brass. I really love the heavy metal Kaweco Sport models.

And just like the Brass this Steel became one of my go to pens immediately.

I bought this brass clip from Travelers Company. It was too expensive, but looks way too cool. I use it to mark my current position in my Hobonichi planner and I’ve stuck a few photos under it.

It is too cool though. And I don’t regret it, no matter how stupid expensive it was.

I’ve bought a bunch of the Hobonichi pencil boards to test out as a way to add some stiffness to various notebooks when I write in them on the couch etc.

They are nice, and improve the situation some. But I’m not sure if something proper hardcover would for most situations be way better.

I pulled out a notebook to draft a few blog posts, how I used to do. Drafted like 4 posts in 10 minutes, would have taken me forever on anything digital.

Same goes every time I just draft a todo list or something on paper.

People will probably lose their shit reading this title.

I use rulers with fountain pens all the time, but not to draw lines. Most of my use of rulers is actually to make it quicker to divide things into sections.

When I use a Rhodia Dotpad for my hit-lists I always split it into three sections if I use it vertically, then I just find a ruler to quickly put a mark on the dot closest to 5cm and 10cm on my ruler, then I put it aways draw 2 lines. Takes me less than 30 seconds, would have spent at least 3 times that doing it in any other way.

If I’m actually putting a pen against the ruler, especially since all of mine are metal, I would certainly use a gel pen or something.

I bought another heavy brass ruler. Not because I need it, but I’m trying to get to a place where I have some stuff I can just leave in the office and not hate having done some when I’m at home.

I got a black one from Ystudio this time. I looks cooler than the one from Ystudio, but not sure how the paint will hold up and look compared to the plain brass one.

But the same awesome heavy feel though.

When I buy my yearly Hobonichi planner, I try to always remember to check out some of their other stuff and get some interesting stuff. This time, almost a year ago at this point, I bought a ruler than I can clip to the planner.

This is one of those items I have and carry that I don’t use a lot. Not because it is bad, but because I have much better ones. It is always clipped inside the cover of my planner, just in case. But most of the time I go for my brass Travelers Company one.

I like it though, but a heavy brass one is a lot more fun.

I have this dumb habit of changing things up and stopping using notebooks kind of in the middle of them. Leading to me often having this pile of notebooks with between 1/3 and 2/3 of the pages being unused.

If it is a notebook type I don’t like I just throw it out. But usually it is a Leuchtturm1917 or similar, and then I never throw them out, because I like them.

Over the last month or so I have been focusing on using all of them before I open anything new. So far I’ve used a handful of notebooks all with less than 50 pages left. Hopefully I have another one or two before they’re all gone.

Ridiculous how much space that took up.