Warpslide wrote to Atroxi <=-
Nice! I've been an on-again-off-again journaler since my early 20's.
I've dabbled with both paper & digital journaling, both have their
places I find.
That is true. I've used to have an org mode journal that keeps a lot of stuff automatic for me. However, I don't often find myself infront of a computer lately so I went back to having a bullet journal from notebooks that I made from scratch.
Never gotten into fountain pens myself, though I do remember using them
on a school trip to a pioneer village.
It is quite nice. If I'd describe the feeling it's like writing with a ballpoint
with the line thickness a sign pen. Though if I'm going to be honest I
mostly did it because I wanted to try it out and save money on pens
and refill ink. Though if I'm not careful I can see fountain pens to be a
very expensive thing.
I do like a "nice" ballpoint myself, I seem to be a sucker for anything stainless steel. I've bought several Zebra pens which I like along
with a LAMY 4 colour pen (the 405 I believe) which makes journaling
nice if you want to accent something in a different colour.
Yes, it is nice to have different colors handy when journalling.
This is especially so when trying to emphasize certain things that I'm writing.
However, I wasn't able to stick to it because I often have the itch and urge
to journal in the most inconvenient of places and instances.
I'm thinking of purchasing a number of colored bottled ink and a couple more Jinhao 992s for that but let's see. I don't want fountain pens to be a major source of ``income sink'' for me, haha!
For awhile I was experimenting with journaling on paper and then
snapping a picture of it into Evernote which would OCR it. They even
make special moleskine books that are made to be scanned into Evernote.
It was neat, but I've let that go and and find that an Amazon Basics
black notebook works just as well.
That seems to be a more complicated process than just writing that on paper
or typing it digitally.
I've never had the greatest handwriting (my sister says I have "boy" handwriting) - but I can read it & that's all that matters. My sister
has beautiful handwriting, looks more like calligraphy. More fancy
than anything I'm capable of.
In my experience women, in general, do have nicer handwriting than men.
Though I do agree with you that what matters most is that you can understand your own writing.
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