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Starting a “Special” Journal – This One is a Little Sappy… — The Clicky Post Instead of feeling the need to go to the store, pick out a ...

The Fountain of Ink – The Thinking Man. I’ve asked myself why I’ve been using only fountain pens for almost twenty years – A throwback to simpler times? n...

Thinking slowly – Matt Gemmell These older, simpler tools, with all of their baggage and inefficiencies, compel us to front-load the thinking process. The...

How to improve your handwriting | Life and style | The Guardian. Cherrell Avery, once a calligrapher-in-residence at the V&A, gives handwriting lessons to a...

Chicago’s Last Tannery — The Distance. “It needs to be the best it can be because that’s really our competitive advantage,” Skip said. “We’re not cheap. If you ...

Analog Markdown — The Newsprint. Most recently, my written notes have been marked up in Markdown too. The reason for this is simple: Markdown is so easy to use,...

To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes by Hand – Technology – The Atlantic “We don’t write longhand as fast as we type these days, but people who ...

The joys of screen-free thinking. — Writers on Writing — Medium I have been writing, but if you follow me online there’s no way you could have seen it. In Decem...

Bleed Out on Blank Pages — Hack / Make. In notebooks, I’ve found it a unique way to see the ink of my life spill together on the pages. Mundane lists, sketches ...