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Shopping for a New Notebook: Nerd Style
Last week, I posted on Instagram the current state of my daily notebook. Its the Piccadilly A5 notebook I’ve been using for several months and its reached critical mass. Its bulging with taped, glued and stuffed-in bits of paper ephemera and I only have about 20 pages left. The time has come to select the…
Nock Nock? Who’s There? Pen Cases, That’s Who!
I’ve been waiting with bated breath for the Nock Co. product launch, a collection of pen and writing tool cases created by my pal Brad Dowdy of The Pen Addict and Jeffrey Bruckwicki from Old Fourth Tailoring. Well, today’s the big day! The Nock Co. just launched their Kickstarter campaign to launch their first…
Follow-Up: Uppercase Eclecto Notebook
I finally received my Uppercase Eclecto Notebook a few weeks ago. Shipping from Canada to the US was a lot slower than I had anticipated, over two weeks and there was a delay processing the order so in the end it took about 3 weeks to get two notebooks. I was super excited to get…
Moving Up in the Fountain Pen Market
After a few budget ($25 range) fountain pens that turned out to be less satisfying than I had hoped, I’m thinking that its time I break past my previous price barrier into a higher-end fountain pen. I’ve never broken the $100 threshold on a fountain pen but I’m wondering if it would be worth it…
Jet Pens $25 Gift Certificate Giveaway Winner
Lots of great entries in the drawing this week for the Jet Pens $25 gift certificate and some pretty massive wishlists too. On to the drawing… This week’s winner is: Dan Z. is the winner of the $25 gift certificate this week. This will make that bottle of Pilot Iroshizuku Momiji Autumn Leaves practically free…
The History of the Trapper Keeper
Oh, yes. You read that correctly. The History of the Trapper Keeper. Do you remember these jewels of high school? I sure do. Mental Floss published an exhaustive history of the design and development of the iconic notebook system. There’s details about market research, focus groups and patents. Yep, it was scientifically created to be…