Weekly Discussion Thread

[annofowlshire]

Comment to tell us about what you've been up to with your journal, planner, or other stationery related items. Tell us about a new pen or a coveted notebook. Consult the hive mind with a problem you've been having. Post a picture! Whatever goes as long as it falls in the realm of journals and planners. Remember, you can always make your own top-level post, too!

(Text from lunabee34)

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[annofowlshire]

Hope it was okay to post it, I hadn’t seen one this week.

Anyway, I’m still using Moleskine Journeys. I migrated info from my latest paper journals into it—likes like my “books read 2022” list and gardening notes (including photos of the diagrams I drew on how I laid some areas out).

I’m liking being able to separate things off. There’s a general daily journal bit, but I have a separate “project” section just for my novel-in-development so I can cut and paste that info in at the end of the day and that’s all collected into one place. And the same with varying other “projects” like my gardening notes.

And it carries over my undone tasks from the day before to the next day. Very handy.

It’s very neat and convenient, but I just saw my box of stickers in my pencil bag and I’m having a little bit of longing for something physical to stick them to…

[bleodswean]

Still working on my quest for the perfect "pocket" printer for travelogue journaling. I'm looking at the Canon Selphy 1300.

Any suggestions for journals that are compact, not too many pages, and good for combo photo/journaling?

[pasta]

Got a new cover for my rings planner. I love it. I can't function properly without my planner. My whole life is in it: https://i.imgur.com/wuLQ9Um.jpg

Notebook ramble

[annofowlshire]

Okay, another comment. After telling bleodswean about the Traveler’s Notebooks, I got a sudden hankering to pull mine out and see what I was last doing with it. And then I was thinking - is there a place for this alongside my MJ app? And the answer is probably yes. And then I was thinking about new inserts, and went to the site where I usually get them from (from the person who made the leather binder in the first place which is a custom size) and choked when I saw that since I last bought inserts (apparently in 2018), the price had jumped from about £1.50 an insert to £5.75. Holy geez. It’s 17 pages of paper stapled into kraftboard (look, I know there’s more to it than that to make them turn out nicely, but what?).

So then I went on an odyssey to look at the supplies I’d need to make my own. The initial outlay isn’t cheap (long arm stapler, paper guillotine, an edge rounder because I want to), but at those rates it would quickly pay for itself XD

And then I made myself check my drawer, and found I had 8 unused inserts and nearly that again of inserts where I’ve used like 3 pages with some grand purpose before abandoning it.

So, I don’t really need to invest in a bunch of insert-making supplies just yet…

ANYWAY I’m just going to noodle around with the remains of the current inserts, and stop being so grandiose that it must be A Book and see what emerges. AND one thing I’ve come to realize is that it can work with my MJ app because I can take a photo of the pages I want to keep and put it on whatever “project” it belongs to.

Also, there will be stickers.

[seleneheart]

I received my EC Lifeplanner today, which was extremely fast as I just ordered it Monday. I seem to remember it taking a month last year.

I'm slightly disappointed in it - they discontinued one of my favorite layouts from last year, which was just the perfect amount of colorful (I'm not much of a neutral person), but what they replaced it with this year is just obnoxiously colorful. Now I wish I had gotten the neutral layout.

[omnipotent]

Received a dozen of my favorite pen, the blue/green Pentel Sparkle Pop. I am happy.

[lassarina]

As April is wrapping up I've decided that I really do not care for using my adorable Notebook Therapy stamps to mark things in my trackers. It's too much work to pull them out, use them, clean up, etc. on a daily basis (I cannot leave them out owing to cats who think everything is a toy Just For Them.) So my stamps are not quite a failed experiment - I'm happy to use them when I'm doing setup for the month - but the cute perfectly sized tracker stamps are not going to work for me as tracker stamps. Ah well. Live and learn.

[jr_the_frog]

I use the Undated Fox Planner and will need to date the last half of the year soon. Time flew by!

Although its pretty plain. Just ink. But I've actually been good about keeping appointments straight and doing things so that's good.

[egret]

I abandoned the 4 other planners I bought for an April start Hobonichi Techo Cousin with a pretty cover, and a new fountain pen. It is cheering me immensely as I churn thru paper grading.

[justanorthernlight]

Earlier this month I picked up a Leuchtturm notebook and some bullet journal stencils, to try some thoughts-and-feelings style journaling. The stencils and an A5 notebook are a little small for me (my handwriting is bad and I need to write kind of large), and I haven't been writing in it very consistently.

The company I buy my planner from made some changes to their academic year version (I buy the calendar year one), and I'm not really a fan and I might have to switch to a bullet journal or something in 2023 :/