Best Pens and Other Writing Implements for Journaling

[ysabetwordsmith]

Having offered journals and planners to buy or to print at home, it seems useful to cover related supplies. This post covers pens, markers, pencils, inks, and a few extras. Understand that the physical experience of writing is a big appeal with recordkeeping on paper, so pay attention to the handfeel of what you use. Also, many people in this activity are highly visual, with an interest in color-coding and/or using a set of symbols to store information. For this reason, they often want multiple colors. Another reason for variety is when you do different things in your journal -- writing, drawing, filling in areas of color, etc. A good handwriting pen may not excel at coloring in spaces and vice versa, so you might need different ones for each task.

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2025 planner, time to use you!

[havocthecat]

On New Year's Day, I broke out the 2025 planner. I put in all the holidays (well, no, I put in some of the holidays, I'll fill in the rest later), and the work holidays, and the school schedule, my 2025 medical appointments, and, weirdly, a portion of my work schedule. Because otherwise I'll potentially schedule my vacations on all the wrong times, and no one wants that, right?

Next up - you! What's your planner strategy? Do you have a strategy?

I have some graph paper in my planner and I might try putting some habit tracking together for those parts. I'm so bad at habit tracking. But! But I think I could try. Kind of some hybrid regular journaling and bullet journaling. Which I don't normally do. I think it could be interesting.

Do you plan on making any changes to your planner habits in 2025?

What's your favorite thing to use to mark up your planner? Do you have any stickers? Stamps? Washi tape? OMG, washi tape. A color-coding scheme better than mine?