Subj : Re: Fountain Pens & Noteb
To   : Warpslide
From : Atroxi
Date : Thu Mar 25 2021 19:29:00

-=> Warpslide wrote to Atroxi <=-

 Wa> Nice!  I've been an on-again-off-again journaler since my early 20's.
 Wa> I've dabbled with both paper & digital journaling, both have their
 Wa> places I find.

That is true. I've used to have an org mode journal that keeps a lot of stuff
automatic for me. However, I don't often find myself infront of a computer
lately so I went back to having a bullet journal from notebooks that I made
from scratch.

 Wa> Never gotten into fountain pens myself, though I do remember using them
 Wa> on a school trip to a pioneer village.

It is quite nice. If I'd describe the feeling it's like writing with a
ballpoint
with the line thickness a sign pen. Though if I'm going to be honest I 
mostly did it because I wanted to try it out and save money on pens 
and refill ink. Though if I'm not careful I can see fountain pens to be a
very expensive thing.

 Wa> I do like a "nice" ballpoint myself, I seem to be a sucker for anything
 Wa> stainless steel.  I've bought several Zebra pens which I like along
 Wa> with a LAMY 4 colour pen (the 405 I believe) which makes journaling
 Wa> nice if you want to accent something in a different colour.

Yes, it is nice to have different colors handy when journalling.
This is especially so when trying to emphasize certain things that I'm writing.

However, I wasn't able to stick to it because I often have the itch and urge
to journal in the most inconvenient of places and instances.

I'm thinking of purchasing a number of colored bottled ink and a couple more
Jinhao 992s for that but let's see. I don't want fountain pens to be a major
source of ``income sink'' for me, haha!

 Wa> For awhile I was experimenting with journaling on paper and then
 Wa> snapping a picture of it into Evernote which would OCR it.  They even
 Wa> make special moleskine books that are made to be scanned into Evernote.

 Wa> It was neat, but I've let that go and and find that an Amazon Basics
 Wa> black notebook works just as well.

That seems to be a more complicated process than just writing that on paper
or typing it digitally.

 Wa> I've never had the greatest handwriting (my sister says I have "boy"
 Wa> handwriting) - but I can read it & that's all that matters.  My sister
 Wa> has beautiful handwriting, looks more like calligraphy.  More fancy
 Wa> than anything I'm capable of.

In my experience women, in general, do have nicer handwriting than men.
Though I do agree with you that what matters most is that you can understand
your own writing. 

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