My Dad’s Lists
One of the motivations in my personal zeitgeist as I started this site was my long fascination with other people’s handwritten habits and styles. I recently not...
Category: Opinion
I’m Afraid I Kind of Like Digital Paper
My most-used productivity tools have historically been my iPad Pro (my primary device since the first one was introduced) and the various notebooks, notepads, a...
The LDS Church Uses Pencils
Reader Angus Macfarlane reached out to me recently with an anecdote I found fascinating. He agreed to let me share it below: Patrick, I’ve been a long time read...
Why the Composition Book
by Steve Best The following is a guest post from friend of the site Steve Best. He’s someone whose work I’ve known about for some time now. His blog is very coo...
In Defense of Cheap
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about how we in the pen and paper blogosphere tend to focus on the relatively expensive. I’m even guilty of...
Embracing Simplicity and Familiarity — Lane Changes
Embracing Simplicity and Familiarity — Lane Changes I’m always doing a little bit of tinkering with my daily journaling approach, but these days I’m more focuse...
Paper is not broken.
My friend Steve Best recently sent me a link to yet another tablet like device promising to replace paper to get my take. It seems interesting enough at first g...
One Writer’s Hunt for the Perfect Pencil
by Harry Marks Hemingway used them. Steinbeck, too. I was as shocked as anyone to learn pencils are used for more than just filling in the bubbles of a Scantron...
Why Analog?
I was recently spurred to answer a question about why I prefer writing by hand these days — more specifically using pen and paper — over many of the digital too...
My Pen Today
My pen, today. It’s my favorite vintage pen. I have not used it in a long while. I cleaned it several months back, put it in a case, and forgot about it. ...