Subj : Fountain Pens & Notebooks
To   : Ogg
From : Atroxi
Date : Thu Apr 01 2021 12:20:00

 Og> When I am home and I need to remind myself of something to to do
 Og> at the shop when I get there, I email my self a note to a
 Og> special account with TODO in the subject.  And then the
 Og> reverse.. it I need to finish some biz work at home in the
 Og> evening, I email myself to my home account with TODO in the
 Og> suject. For private things, I would use PGP.  I could not manage
 Og> that shit with a phone; I'd often to forget to take the phone
 Og> with me some days!

It's really interesting how people find vastly different solutions to
similar problems.

Lucky you though, I wish I can stay away from my phone for extended
periods of time. Well, to be honest, I know how I would do that but
smartphones really are gripping and addictive devices.

 Og> Most of my journaling was during grade-school. I discovered that
 Og> my dad had a radio that supported the SW bands. He only used it
 Og> for AM.  But when I discovered SW it was like the world opened
 Og> up for me. Some ham operators offered "confirmation postcards"
 Og> for anyone who would write to them with date/time of broadcast.

Oh wow. That's interesting. I'm not sure whether people had that kind
of thing in my country. Maybe I'm not just aware of it, but nonetheless
it's certainly interesting.

 Og> Grade school also had us participate in a pen pal program to
 Og> exchange letters with students in another school.  That seemed
 Og> fun when the letters arrived. But I never maintained any lasting
 Og> connections there. I was too young and getting distracted with
 Og> the girls at hand.  ;)

Haha! I wish I had that kind of thing when I was growing up.

 Og> Yes.. the modern ones have the cartidges. A nice solution. And
 Og> they don't dry up as fast? I really haven't tried those. My mom
 Og> took up calligraphy in her 60's and onward. That's when I
 Og> learned about the cartridge versions.  I still have a bunch of
 Og> those supplies.  But she still appreciated the convenience of
 Og> composing a letter using a word-processor.  She'd decorate the
 Og> printed product with some flourishes of calligraphy.

I'm not sure if they don't dry up as fast. Maybe it depends on the ink
itself. I haven't played around with how fast an ink dries in the 
cartridge but I assume that as long as you keep the nib capped 
the ink should not dry that fast.

 Og> I tried keeping a grocery list using a phone app. But that did
 Og> not work for me. I just use a piece of paper with a grid that I
 Og> duplicate 4x on an 8.5x11" sheet of paper, rip that sheet into
 Og> its respective quarters and have a little stash that I use like
 Og> this:

 Og>  https://photos.kolico.ca/tmp/groc-list.jpg

 Og>  ..and work my way column by column from right to left until it
 Og> is full.  It's pinned onto the fridge where I can always find it
 Og> and grab it.

This is an interesting system. Would you mind if I copy this and use
it for my own journal? :-)

 Og> This might be a digression of the actual subject of journaling
 Og> and notebooks at the start, but except for signing cheques and
 Og> amassing other notes on pieces of paper, this is the extent of
 Og> handwriting right now.

To some extent, I'd have to agree with you. Most of the people that
I know rarely keep notes and journals anymore. Though, I'd argue
that this is perhaps one of the reasons why people tend to appre-
ciate handwriting more nowadays.


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