As far as I’m concerned Bullet Journal is multiple things at once

• Stationery porn
• A way to format stuff on a page
• A system

This is a part of the stationery world I usually stay away from. Mostly because, while I think it is cool how talented some people are at creating these beautiful bullet journal setups, I also know how bad it makes some people feel and what I mostly care about is using things for what works for you.

Most of the pages I fill out in a notebook look terrible. There is a reason I usually never include images in my posts.

If you move beyond the stationery porn you’ll see two things a way to format things on the page and a system.

The system mostly consists of either indexes and collections. Collections are just a page with a bunch of items formatted using the formatting system. It has various symbols for a bunch of commonly used entries like tasks that are done, tasks that are not done yet, things you have moved somewhere else. events, notes etc.

Bullet journal can be used for anything really. Some use it for more of a tasks and event productivity system, others for more of a log of their life and a bunch of other things.

Here is the thing though. I think Bullet Journaling can be what ever you need it to be.

You don’t have to use the official formatting if that doesn’t work for you. And if a certain part of the system doesn’t work for you there isn’t anything keeping you from not doing that. For me it have always been the index.

At the moment I only have a kind of bullet journal to do habit tracking. In the past I have done all kinds of various bullet journal setups.

This volume release features the firm core, and it has this really awesome looking classic comic like texture on it. This is a Blackwing pencil that looks like nothing else I have ever seen. I can’t find a good way to describe it. The easiest is to just check it out here.

I love this release, and it checks all the marks for me. It looks cool, it reminds me of comics and it has this very unique design.

This Volume release from Blackwing features the soft core. It has a black ferrule and text. And it comes in blue and orange; and the color of the pencil and the eraser are opposite; blue pencil with orange eraser and orange pencil with blue eraser.

I love how it looks. It feels different and fresh and not like something I have ever seen before. But I don’t get a proper neon feel from it. So it is kind of a 2/3 as a Blackwing Volume release even though I think it is one of my all time favorite releases.

For some people it actually matters how much ink they get for their money, and I get that. But for me it doesn’t matter. Honestly, it doesn’t. And I guess for a lot of us fountain pen inks it doesn’t.

If I tried I bet I could, without spending too much money, order up enough ink from my wish list to last me an entire life time.

I’d love to see more companies making smaller ink bottles. It wouldn’t have to be that much cheaper either. If all the inks I have at the moment would have been sold in 20ml or 25ml bottles instead of 50ml I would almost certainly have ordered them instead.

For me that would just mean that I could buy different ink colors sooner.

Naming things can be very difficult, and for me it is always this long process of just looking until I figure out something I like.

I’m very happy with the name I landed on for this site. The main inspiration for it came from all the weird and awesome domainname and TLD weirdness you see on Mastodon Instances. So I just looked for combinations of stationery related words that are general and TLD’s that contain words of things I love until I found stationery.pizza.

It was kind of obvious. I love pizza and I love stationery.

All pencil users have experienced this at some point. The point of your pencil breaks, you sharpen it and it breaks again; repeat until you give up or it’s all gone.

The reason this happens is usually because the pencil lead is broken on the inside. When I feel like that is the problem I just throw it out and get anohter pencil.

Other times there might be a problem with the sharpener. For example the Pollux can be a little “fuck this pencil” and just break the point before you get to where you write with it. And a few times I have experienced that KUM blades after a lot of use are worn down to a place where they mess up the point in a way where it just breaks at the same point.

When I see the point breaking a lot. I always try with a different pencil first. Ideally of the same type. And if that also breaks I try with a different kind of pencil. If all of them break I find a different sharpener.

My go to pencil sharpener when I’m at home is the Classroom Friendly. One of the main reasons for it is that I very rarely have any problems with it sharpening anything.

This was the first Blackwing I’ve had in a long time, and the first Volume I’ve had in even longer.

My original plan was to order some Pearls. But asw this box of Volume 6 in stock and decided to get that instead.

I think they look really cool. Two colors. Blue and Red. And then the erasors are the oposite of the barrel.

The theme of this release was “Neon”, while I think the colors look awesome and quite unique, I don’t get a Neon vibe from them.

It comes with the soft core. Something I have not used in a long time. It is fun, but not the most practical for writing more than some short notes

This pen have been on my I should check out list for as long as I have been listening to The Pen Addict.

It is also the first time I am using a gel pen since like 2015.

This pen is so much better than anything gel pen I have ever used before.

I ordered three different versions all in black: 0.5mm 0.7mm and 1.0mm. After using all of them some, I think I prefer the 1.0mm in general, but I also like the 0.7mm. But the 0.5mm is too thin and scrathy for my taste.

At the end of my testing I ordered a like 10 of the 1.0mm version. And it will be my go to pen for when I just want something simple and reliable. Like when I’m hiking and similar.

A Blackwing Volume release is just a regular Blackwing pencil with a different design. There are most of the time not any other differences. There was a time when one of the core’s wasn’t available outside it. But these days all the cores are available as a regular edition.

What makes a good one? I think the design has to mix the theme of the release, it has to look great and either be unique or a really good looking version of something existing.

When I say look great, that doesn’t mean I like it. Just that it is a well designed version of what ever it is.

Some of the Blackwing Volumes have been very unique designs like the comic book one. While others have been their own take on something that someone else are already making. For example like the Staedler Noris. I don’t think it is a problem as long as Blackwing makes it look amazing. The $25 or whatever a box of Blackwing costs today of some random pencil should be the perfection on it. And I think Blackwing did that with the Noris like edition they did a while back.