(Flickr set) I have recently received a Midori Traveler’s Notebook, ordered from TheJournalShop. (Please note: “traveller” should have two “l”s in Proper English, but their advertising has it spelled with one. I may randomly switch between the two.) What is this thing? The Midori is halfway between a standard journal and a “system” such as [...]
A compact fountain pen that looks a bit like a cuttlefish. Do people actually want compact pens with italic nibs? Well, if they do, this is one.
This morning I received a brand new Pilot Decimo Capless, with an F nib. I was aware that the Japanese do tend to produce nibs with much finer grades than the European equivalent, but in this case I was really quite surprised; this is easily the finest fountain pen I have used, and in fact [...]
Inspired by a post on FountainPenNetwork where somebody had exposed a number of different inks to not only water, but bleach, I decided to do something similar with a selection of the black inks that I possess (and also Noodler’s El Lawrence, which is “dirty pond algae” coloured rather than black) some of which claimed [...]
After hearing about some outrageously decorated pens by the Chinese company Jinhao, available for basically buttons and of good quality, I decided that I had to at least try one. Nothing actually with dragons with gemstones for eyes around the cap or anything like that, but something reasonably subdued. There are several people selling Jinhao [...]
Those of you familiar with GTD will know that one important concept in the system is that of contexts. (For those yet unpolluted, GTD is a task management system, and the context of a task is the situation in which one can do it – so tasks in the context “home” are ones which can [...]