How the fuck did I end up here?

Up until my recent switch in my nib preferences all of my or most of my pens was wet broads.

Long story short: I’m going on a plan in August and decided to see if I could find a decent gel pen at a local store with a finer nib to bring with me. And the only thing I could find at the one larger store I went to was this one.

The really fucked up thing is that I really like it. It is kind of funny because the last time I tried this pen I hated it so much that I threw it in a bin within 10 minutes of buying it. So I guess I’m going to order a bunch of finer point gel ink pens from JetPens soon.

Travelers notebooks is this awesome covers with all kinds of cool accessories and stuff to fill them with. They come in two formats, one that is like a skinny A5 and one that is kind of like Field Notes.

I used to use them for a long time as my go to notebook for everything. I used to fill them with one lined notebook for writing, one dotted for managing tasks and such. I used to like it a lot. It was very compact and awesome.

As I discovered local stores in Norway that let me order Leuchtturm1917 notebooks, but not Travelers refills I slowly moved away from the system.

The standard one can fit up to three refills.

There are also tons of third party covers that can do more. Plus a lot of accessories to make it your own.

I’m seriously considering moving a bunch of my stuff back over to this system.

I have at various times tried to use paper planners as my only calendar. That have never really worked out, and I have in time found a place for them that works for me.

Anyways. The first time I tried this it was the Hobonichi Techo, the second time I used this. It lasted for like 3 or 4 months. It is a solid planner, if you can deal with the Field Notes paper.

One thing I always like in a planner is a two page week spread. And the Field Notes 56 week planner had a interesting take on it. Not the one that have worked the best for me, but interesting non the less. They split the page into 6, and the last of the 5 into two, leaving a large section for the week days and two smaller for Saturday and Sunday.

This is one of the fem less expensive fountain pens I for some reason never have bought.

I don’t know why, but I just never did. So I ordered a red one with a EF nib a while back.

When it showed up I really liked the packaging. It came in this cardboard box that just large enough to fit the pen. The first thing I did was to eye dropper it with red ink.

It is a very small pen when you don’t post the cap, and more or less like a regular pen otherwise. Apparently it is common with bad nibs with these pens, I got a good one. And I like it a lot. I suspect I’ll end up with a few of them.

As I’m writing this I just recently started to move more into pens with finer nibs; both gel and fountain. And that might change my pencil preferences moving forward.

Historically the Pearl have been the one I like the most. Partly because it is the best looking of the regular versions. And I liked that I could sharpen a lot while using it. But now that I’ve started to like the scratchy pens and such I might be more into the hardest Blackwing aka the Natural. Or I might even be more into even harder pencils like the Golden Bear.

Weird.

Here is a list of nibs I’ve broken over the years

• Pilot Metal Falcon
  
• Pilot Vanishing point
  
• Pilot Metropolitan
  
• TWSBI Eco

We all break some shit over the years.

Weird that it have been one year already.

In general I’m very happy about how things have gone. The post schedule I landed on have worked very well and is sustainable. It haven’t been a problem do get enough posts done in batches to keep up with the two posts a week.

For the next year I think I want to look more into doing more recurring posts especially surrounding the tools I use. And I would also love to shorten the time between writing and publishing.

Outside of that I might also look more into some kind of link dump thing. But I’m not sure about that one.

This was a really interesting case.

I really loved mine when I used mine during that very last phase before COVID hit.

You can fit two hardcover A5 notebooks in it, plus room for three pens and a room where you can fit your Field Notes etc.

If Nock Co had continued I’d love to see more versions of this case. Like one that fitted more notebooks etc. I really loved having this single thing that fitted two of the three notebooks I used to carry in those days. And it served like this thing that fitted almost all the writing stuff I used most of the time.

Instead of finding my pens, then my Field Notes, then my bullet journal notebook, then my writing notebook. You know the drill.

Iroshizuku have been my main ink brand since I got my first bottle of it. These days I’m mostly exclusive to them.

For the longest time I was a only black person, then I got into colors, bought a bunch of ink and used five years to get rid of it all.

Now. This was the first ink I bought after that.

It is a great dark blue. And I love it a lot. Based on how much ink I have used from this bottle compared to all the others I got at the same time it is the one I like the most. It is a really good blue.