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How goes it? It's been a while since we've had one of these!
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, to
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, to
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Date: 2024-04-22 11:13 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-04-22 11:43 am (UTC)Swiftly, it's becoming everything. The weekly spread. The daily lists. The occasional sketch. Musings on witchy topics, knitting, homeschooling, the garden.
So I carried that around for a while, and then I was thinking maybe I should get a pen loop or something to keep it contained, and then I dug out the Galen leather portfolio my partner had gotten me for Christmas, and... yeah.
I'll keep tinkering, but at the moment it's got a couple of pens, a pencil, and a pack of watercolor pencils in hopes it'll inspire me to sketch more. Not seen is a small detachable notepad slid behind for those times when you just want to write something on a leaf of paper and hand it off.
I'm debating migrating phone (a slim iPhone mini)/wallet contents as well, and then it's all in one package, but I'm not yet sold on that idea. It seems a bit cumbersome to have to root around in my portfolio to get my card to pay for the groceries.
Hm.
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Date: 2024-04-22 05:02 pm (UTC)I keep debating the Galen portfolios. Thanks for sharing a picture of one in use :)
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Date: 2024-04-22 09:21 pm (UTC)Re: Never settled
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Date: 2024-04-23 01:18 pm (UTC)Re: Never settled
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Date: 2024-04-22 09:25 pm (UTC)I don't have a planner as such but a calendar and u do look at that daily or I'd miss meetings but I don't write in it daily.
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Date: 2024-04-23 01:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-04-22 07:06 pm (UTC)Traveling happens frequently. And there is a deep deep fear of a journal being lost or stolen, so once a journal is used for a trip it doesn't go on another one.
The current solution is using small/thin ones. But! Thin journals are very flimsy, while small hardcovers are hard to write in. Sigh. Might have to consider making one...
- Dogstar (he/him)
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Date: 2024-04-23 10:02 pm (UTC)I have a Traveler's Journal, which is very small and thin, and can be swapped in and out of its cover, which makes it nice for two reasons: The cover is very luxe, and also the book is very easy to use up quickly. But it's sturdier in the beautiful cover.
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Date: 2024-04-23 01:17 pm (UTC)To the right in the middle, you can see where I made the mistake of taking a fountain pen on an airplane.
This holds my fountain pen, mechanical pencil for sketching, a metal ruler, mildliner, whatever brush pen I'm using for that month, two sizes of microns, a gel pen which is a back up for the fountain pen, and 9 colored fine liners to bullet each different category of tasks in my bullet journal.
Also, correction tape, extra leads and erasers for the pencil.
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Date: 2024-04-23 07:31 pm (UTC)I didn't even know that was something you aren't supposed to do until I read someone posting about the ensuing mess when they did it.
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Date: 2024-04-23 08:03 pm (UTC)I usually put my fountain pens into a ziplock bag when traveling on planes. I've never had a leak, but figure it's possible and I get stained enough in regular life.
(Such as when I was once having tense meeting with a colleague and was flicking my fountain pen (uncapped to take notes) and it ended up spewing dark blue ink--across the table, my hands, my face... thankfully not her!)
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Date: 2024-04-23 04:03 pm (UTC)Re: Good Timing!
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Date: 2024-04-23 07:26 pm (UTC)Really delightful.
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Date: 2024-04-23 10:03 pm (UTC)I've barely had time to get anything done, much less planning or journaling. I love seeing what everyone else has done, though!
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Date: 2024-04-24 11:22 am (UTC)And then I want to buy what everyone else is using. Lol
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Date: 2024-04-24 10:15 am (UTC)https://www.jetpens.com/Nakabayashi-W-U-Notebook-Horizontal-B6-5-mm-Graph-Smoky-Black/pd/38484
https://www.jetpens.com/Kokuyo-Campus-Half-Size-Notebook-Half-B5-Dotted-7-mm-Rule/pd/33440
They're half-size and designed to fit in front of a computer keyboard. I have such an issue at my work desk because it's in an L shape; when I'm looking at my computer, the blank work surface is to my right and most of what is in front of me is taken up with monitor and keyboard and phone. I do lots and lots of taking notes and writing about what is on the computer, and it is so awkward to try to fit even an A5 notebook into the available space. This is a total game changer for me!
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Date: 2024-04-24 11:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-04-24 10:23 pm (UTC)I'll try to get back in here and read everyone else's catch up tomorrow. I enjoy seeing what we are all doing.
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Date: 2024-04-28 10:16 am (UTC)I'm sorry the start of the year was rough for you. I hope things have improved.
What didn't work for you in the Nolty?
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