Subj : Re: Fountain Pens & Notebooks
To : Atroxi
From : Warpslide
Date : Wed Mar 24 2021 03:37 pm
*** Quoting Atroxi from a message to All ***
At> Lately I've been getting into the habit of writing and journalling
At> again. The first time that I did that was when I taught myself the
At> skill of making notebooks.
Nice! I've been an on-again-off-again journaler since my early 20's. I've
dabbled with both paper & digital journaling, both have their places I find.
At> Now, however, it's because of fountain pens.
Never gotten into fountain pens myself, though I do remember using them on a
school trip to a pioneer village.
At> Right now I'm using a cheap chinese clone of the LAMY Safari as well
At> as a Jinhao 992. I just can't bring myself to buy those
At> ``higher-end'' pens so I think I'lljust stick with those cheaper ones
At> for the meantime.
I do like a "nice" ballpoint myself, I seem to be a sucker for anything
stainless steel. I've bought several Zebra pens which I like along with a
LAMY 4 colour pen (the 405 I believe) which makes journaling nice if you want
to accent something in a different colour.
For awhile I was experimenting with journaling on paper and then snapping a
picture of it into Evernote which would OCR it. They even make special
moleskine books that are made to be scanned into Evernote.
It was neat, but I've let that go and and find that an Amazon Basics black
notebook works just as well.
I've never had the greatest handwriting (my sister says I have "boy"
handwriting) - but I can read it & that's all that matters. My sister has
beautiful handwriting, looks more like calligraphy. More fancy than anything
I'm capable of.
Jay
... Open mouth, insert foot, echo internationally.
