Can Just a Sentence a Day Make You Happier? | Inc.com
Author Gretchen Rubin has a simple but powerful suggestion, which she shared recently in her Happier podcast. It’s a super-easy habit that can help us squeeze extra enjoyment out of the small, everyday details we usually just forget. It’s called a single sentence journal, and it’s pretty much just what it says on the tin.
Sometimes, you just need to start with something simple to form a lifetime habit.
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If you are a large-size Moleskine user, these look great. John Scullen wrote up an excellent review of it. Make sure to check that out too.
Analog Writing Tools — Tools and Toys
Longtime readers will know the staff here at Tools & Toys are fans of all things analog. Sure, we’re still total geeks about gadgets and gear, but we also find a lot of joy and satisfaction in the feel of putting pen to paper.To that end, we’ve assembled a collection of nice pens, paper, gear, and tips to help you get the most out of your own analog writing tools. Your wallet has been warned.
Nice overview of various solutions here and, as is always the case with T&T, wonderful pictures.
It’s no secret that I love fountain pens. They’re my preferred writing instrument of choice, and not without good reason. Check out the eight reasons below on what I think the best benefits are of using a fountain pen. If you’re already a fountain pen enthusiast, share the list to help convert your friends!
He makes some great, um… Points.
Katie Paterson, Future Library
A forest has been planted in Norway, which will supply paper for a special anthology of books to be printed in one hundred years time. Between now and then, one writer every year will contribute a text, with the writings held in trust, unpublished, until 2114.
Really neat idea.
Via Joe Nally
2 | To Reuse This Notebook, Just Pop It In The Microwave | Co.Design | business + design
Rocketbook, designed by startup Rocket Innovations, looks and feels like a traditional paper notebook and pen combination, but it uses heat-sensitive ink and is paired with a smart app. (The pens, FriXion ballpoints by Pilot, are cheap and easy to find at places like Staples.) When you stick the 8.5-inch-by-11-inch notebook in the microwave for 30 seconds, all 100 of its pages are cleared, so its infinitely reusable.
It’s an interesting idea, for sure.
I should mention that all of the Write Notepads & Co. pencils are “left-handed” pencils. When I first heard this I thought, “What?? How can a pencil be right or left handed?” Well, here’s the thing—branding on the pencils is printed in such a way that it appears right side up when held in the left hand, and upside down when held in the right. I’d never considered this before, undoubtedly because I’m right handed so the issue just never occurred to me. Chris Rothe—one of the founding brothers— is left handed, so this bit of whimsy makes perfect sense. Why shouldn’t left handed writers have pencil branding oriented for them?
Huh. You learn something new every day. Also, this further contributes to my goal to continue making this a safe and friendly place for left-handed handwriters.
I wanted a simple, searchable index of all the topics in all my notebooks. So I built it, and you can use it too. Indxd lets you quickly enter notebooks and their topics, then search and browse everything.
This is seriously cool and useful. I just signed up and started adding my most current notebook. Plan on doing past ones over the next few days too. So good.
Neil Gaiman on getting hooked on handwriting – Tulsa World: ARTS
“I was trying to write a story that I wanted to have the rhythm of something that might have been written in the 1920s,” Gaiman said, “and I loved the idea of how writing by hand might affect the story being told.”