New Pen Day: Uni Jetstream “Pure Malt”
It’s new pen day again. I routinely change my preferred pen (because why would I decide on anything) and now, after a couple of months sticking to the Uni Zento I switched back to a Jetstream pen. The... more
Tag: stationery
The Traveler's Notebook 20th Anniversary set arrived
I had been debating with myself whether or not to order the 20th Anniversary Customization Set from Travelers Notebook and in the end couldn’t resist.{.intro} I already own the 10th Anniversary box an... more
New Pen Day: Uni Zento Signature
It's new-pen-day! The Zento Signature has arrived. {.intro} I have been using the Zento 0.38 refill in the Zento Flow (?) barrel for the past three months and have enjoyed quite a bit. It writes nicel... more
New Baum-Kuchen Patches for my Travelers Notebook
My Travelers Notebook with both new patches I have the bottom patch for on both of my Travelers Notebook covers but had been eye-balling with the "Wabi-Sabi" and the "Trust the Process" from Baum-Kuch... more
The Writing Cushion
How a seat-cushion solved an issue that I had with almost every notebook ever. more
My new favourite pen: The Uni Kuru Toga 0.5
tl;dr: After years of tinkering with fountain pens, inks, nibs and gel-pens I found the possible solution to my "pen-issue" in the complete opposite: in a mechanical pencil. I can with absolute confid... more
Until the Coffee gets Cold
My "new" journal-routine is turning out quite nicely. I have been journaling for quite some time, but consistently daily in one form or the other for a couple of years, since 2019 I guess. Since I am,... more
About my current Blogging/Writing Strategy
Ideally my current blogging/writing workflow would work like this: 1. write post-draft in my notebook 2. transcribe and edit the post in the editor 3. hit publish This gives me the opportunity to: ✅ t... more
The Mountain of Madness that is me deciding on a Task Manager setup - aka My Last Two Weeks
After about 8 months of using exclusively Emacs/Orgmode for all my task management and agenda needs, I happened to open one of my old Bullet Journals and remembered how much I enjoy analog task management. more
New Pen Day
It's the first one this year! I have been waiting for the pen to arrive and today my new Kaweco Student Demonstrator arrived, and it is gorgeous. more
New Year, New Journal Setup
I'm using the Bullet Journal Method for task-management now in the third year and aside two attempts of trying digital solutions such as orgmode and Todoist (each in turn lasted exactly a month)... more
New Ink Day - Diamine Earl Grey
Jup, apparently that's a thing now here on the blog{.intro} I had been looking for a nice grey ink for use in my Bullet Journal as I start to feel the black I was using as too "contrast-y". I then fou... more
The One with the new Pen - Part 3
I have been looking into a few more pens recently, and was looking for something that is somewhere between my Kaweco Student Soul and the Lamy Safari. I like both, but find the Safari sometimes a bit... more
New Pen: The Kaweco Student 70's Soul
It's a couple of months ago, that I started to get into fountain-pens and then got me a Lamy Safari. At that time, I hadn't used a fountain-pen since grade school and planned to give it a try again, b... more