Author: steve
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Buying a pen that tarnishes…on purpose?
So the big names in what I’ll the functional metal pen space – Big Idea Designs and Tactile Turn (and probably many others) offer their pens in brass, bronze and copper. The idea seems to be that while shiny and new when you get them, they age and gain a patina. Ok, we know from…
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The loyal companion vs. a book for each occasion
I’ve noticed a recurring pattern, where I vacillate between having one notebook that I put everything and using a notebook for something specific. Like a trip – do I bring my main journal, though big and heavy, and keep everything in one book or should I bring just a field notes and make the book…
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New notebook fail
So I was nosing around online and found a pocket size Lochby brand notebook that advertised having tomoe rivier paper, and sure enough it had a higher than usual page count. Nice! So on a whim I bought one. It’s the ubiquitous pocket/Field Notes size, and looks promising, right? Woops! As you can see, the…
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How Did You Digitize Your Journals?
I’ve got about 35 volumes of journals I’ve kept over the years, and I’d like to digitize them. The problem is there are so many options out there it’s overwhelming at first glance. Mark Koester as a nice article, but it’s from 2019 and I suspect things are quite a bit different now. I’m not…
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Morning pages – in the journal or separate book?
I started doing morning pages a while back, and I been doing them in a these cheap kraft notebooks. I didn’t know how this would turn out, and doing the math I could see it would mean filling a few books a year. But now I’m thinking of moving them into my journal. Why? I’m…
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Don’t Lose Your Pen! High visibility Pen Comparison
There was a time when I was younger when I, like a lot of folks it seems, preferred black or manly or ‘tactical’ colors for everything. Then I slowly learned I was spending a lot of time looking for things because they were all the same color. Especially when traveling or camping. Over time I’ve…