I have had three of this pen over the years, two stubs (I broke one of them) and a broad.

One of them were the black model, and my current two are of the fully transparent version that I prefer.

After my Lamy 2000 this is without a doubt the pen I use the most. It holds a ton of ink, relative to its size. Has a lot of different colors and nib options. And it is very inexpensive.

It writes very well. If I were to re-order them I’d probably go for stub and a fine.

The stub is smooth and awesome. And the broad is also very good, for what it is.

The one thing I have to note about it is that the feed sometimes struggles with keeping up. This is usually not during writing though, but more when I am scribbling out a lot of stuff.

It is one of very few stationery products I recommend without any buts.

The regular Field Notes notebooks are awesome. You have the regular “Kraft” edition, that kind of started this entire industry of “back pocket sized” notebooks you see today. If not started, they at least made it much more popular.

There are different versions of it, with different paper quality. The regular edition have paper that works “good enough” with more or less anything. But not great with anything. But don’t expect anything like Leuchtturm1917.

You can get them in blank, lined or square format; and they also have a mixed sampler pack. Some of the limited runs have dot grid. If I can find any with dotgrid I usually get them instead of the regular because of this.

I think the format is great, even though I do miss having a hard cover pocket sized notebooks sometimes. Before getting into Field Notes in 2013, I used to use these thicker Moleskine’s with a hardcover.

What I loved about those hardcover notebooks was that I could just stop in the middle of the street, write something and go on. That is not that easy with soft covers. The soft covers work much better in your back pocket though.

Something I really love about Field Notes is all the awesome design and writing they have on the covers. My favourite is the list of suggested uses. Always cracks me up.

I haven’t used them in a while, because COVID. But I’ll probably order some once I start going place again. Do I recommend them? Yes, as long as you don’t expect the best fountain pen performance.

I used to do a website called The Ink Smudge between 2015 and 2019. You can read more on why it ended here

I recently have felt more and more like doing a stationery blog again, among other things because I now have more time for it.

This will in a lot of ways me trying to do the same again, learning from my mistakes and trying to follow the site Philosophy closer. It isn’t the same as back then, but in the same spirit.

I have a lot of posts planned. My plan is to post two regular posts per week, and maybe link posting in addition. I have not decided on if or how I want to do that.