[stationery] things I am not allowed to buy: pocket notebooks

[kaberett]

At least until I have actually used the small stash of them I have Accumulated without ever having actually bought one. Yes yes yes, the Clairefontaine that was a freebie with a pen purchase is ruled not blank/gridded/dotted, but it's an excellent test case for the format, self.

Which has at least caused me to realise that actually the thing I want to store in that slot in the pen case is almost certainly one of the blocks of large-format Post-Its, because I don't yet have a good way of carrying those around and they are something I Actively Want.

(I'm busy reassessing How And What I Carry Around now that I'm spending more time on my feet; my Primary Notebook is fairly bulky; I really don't like taking notes on my auxiliary internet devicephone, to the point that I just... don't. The fact that a pocket notebook fits in my pen case is kind of irrelevant because I don't actually tend to have my pen case on me unless I've also got the Primary Notebook, and I definitely don't want the degree of barrier-to-entry that is having to fish around in a larger bag for the pen case. But if I just have a pocket notebook In My Pocket then I am also going to need A Pocket Writing Implement, and the pen in my penknife is both Dead and Painfully Small. ... though at least one of those is fixable, and possibly I should. Hmm.)

Comments

[kaberett]

(some scribbling later) OH WAIT IT ISN'T DEAD cool that at least is now working...

[gingicat]

Neat!

[horselizard]

yay!

[gingicat]

Interesting!

I am one of those poor suckers who finds it perfectly fine to take notes on my phone and so thereby doesn't have all the interesting pens and notebooks and things.

[lunabee34]

Yay for fixing your pen!

[sfred]

I am nearly at the end of an A5 notebook that has lasted 18 months or so, and I need to decide SOON whether to move onto the next one of those or go back to pocket size. Hmm.

[ewt]

My favourite pocket notebooks, when I was using them, were the passport-sized ones from Muji. I discovered that if I used pencil I could actually erase the whole book (having transferred the information therein) and re-use it.

I also went through a phase of just carrying some scrap A4 paper, neatly folded to provide a writing surface, but this ultimately requires more diligence at data transfer than I have.

[kaberett]

HMM. Shall contemplate!