I may have a growing addiction to buying ground nibs out the gate
I’m struck by a growing pattern in my recent purchases: I’ve had three of my last four pen purchases ground on day one. My Nahvalur Nautilus twins survived less than 24-hours before they were ground to a Mini-Cutlass and a BBG multitasker stub. And now I opted for Hongdian’s in-house wild card. Why?
Quality simplicity is hard to pull off but makes for fabulous notebooks and reading tools
Quality simplicity holds powerful appeal for me. There is joy to be had writing with a F nib in a notebook with a precisely printed, simple grey grid on white paper. A simple thing done well is quite extraordinary.
In defense of the slow, inefficient read … and the long point pencil
Efficiency and speed are quite different where reading is concerned. Each has an important role to play in making sense of what I read. I need to read a book twice to get to both headspaces. And that involves revisiting passages over and again, each time with new tools added.
Colorfully uncommon commonplace notes
I’m a firm believer that a searchable analog database requires color. Two colors, to be precise. And a threaded keyword system so I can search notes by topic. All in one common place. A commonplace notebook.