I’m doing this in multiple rounds. This time I’ll be focusing on the notebook itself, and I’ll get on to the format of the pages in the second part and how I use it in the third.

The cover of the notebook is really nice. I like how it feels, unlike anything else I have ever owned. Also it is kind of like a softcover and hardcover notebook at the same time. It isn’t a real hardcover, but still stiff enough to write on without a proper surface.

Like I would prefer a real hardcover, but this is probably cheaper to make, and it makes it thinner.

The design of it is subtle and nice.

On to the paper. It is good, but not great. But more than good enough.

The interesting thing about it is that it is way better than anything you’d most likely find in a regular staples or anything like that. But still the notebook with the worst paper in my bag.

The tear off corner is neat, but I’m not sure about the utility of it yet.

There is one thing I miss: page markers. I miss it so much I might buy a A5 Hobonichi cover to use with this. Since they have page markers.

All in all, if there are more interesting variations on notebooks in this wrapping I’d most likely check it out. I would probably not be interested in a plain dot grid thing, because I have options that work better for me for that. But if they come out with other products more like this one I’d almost certainly check it out.

If you are reading this site you probably like me have more pens in the use than you should.

The number of fountain pens I currently have inked up and use at the moment is 5.

What I try to do is to change pens every morning. The only rule is that I can’t pick the same as yesterday. And I just try to rotate through them all.

For the most part it works great. Even more fun when all have different inks and my notebooks looks like unicorn barf.

Something I start to noodle with a pen and I realized something. This time it was that the larger your nib is, the larger the writing has to be to be readable

When I got my LT 5-year journal I didn’t really have a plan for it. Just bought it, because I wanted free shipping, and started to just write the first 2-3 sentences that came to my mind.

Recently I decided to turn it into a gratitude journal. Really like the change this far.

I started my LT 5 year journal on the 11th of April 2019.

As I’m in the process of lining up my planner for next year, I decided to also start a new 5 year journal and actually start it on January first.

I decided on one from Midori this time, it’s kind of a weird size, but I hope the cover of this one holds up better than the Leuchtturm1917

I’d love to see more flexibility in the subscriptions, but I guess it kind of applies to all the “consumable” products in general.

Getting pencils in 12 og 144 packs works well if you use one pencil all the time, and the same goes for 50ml bottles of ink.

But if you’re a geek and buy a bunch of shit because it is your hobby it would be better, or I would at least prefer, to get them in smaller packages. Unless you’re into the whole trading racket.

If pencils came in 6 or 4 packs I’d probably get that most of the time. And if there was a volume subscription like that I’d almost certainly get it.

And for inks I have started to get small bottles when available. You don’t need that many bottles of ink or boxes of pencils before you get into “more than I’ll use in my lifetime territory”.

I’ve added a new page listing all the pens, nibs, inks etc I have in my bag.

I was going through the gigantic pile of pens I have in my bag, and I thought it might be a interesting exercise to make a list of my two favorites. One fountain pen and one non-fountain pen.

• Fountain pen: Pilot Custom 823 with Fine nib
• Uniball Signo DX 0.28mm

As an gift to myself on hitting a weight loss milestone, or more like a milestone in getting back to where I was at the end of 2021 I decided to getting myself a Lamy 2000 with a EF nib. But after looking at some comparisons of the performance of it, I instead started looking at the 823 with a F nib. I would most likely have gotten one in EF if it was in stock.

The main reason is that this nib seemed to fit better with my current preferences than a EF 2k would.

First of all. This pen also came in the whole “gift” packaging I hate. And it included a bottle of Black Pilot Ink I’m not sure what to do about.

On to the pen itself.

I got the “brown-ish” color instead of the grey-ish color. Either one is fine though. But I’d much rather wanted it in a fun color. This brown or grey with gold is really pushing into grand dad pens for me.

The pen features a vacuum filling system. Easy enough to use once you get used to it. And with most vacuum fillers it has this added feature of unscrewing the plunger to let ink flow into the feed. Something that has the added benefit of being useful for air travel.

The nib on this pen feels amazing. Fine without being scratchy at all. It would not be a surprise if I end up with another one of these in EF.