For feel in the hand my favorite one is TÜL that I can only ever find at Office Depot. For ease of clicking the lead up and the best eraser I love the Clear Point Elite by Paper Mate. I'm a 0.7mm fan for lead, not so skinny that it breaks under my ferocious pressure but still thin enough to write pretty small notes in the margin.
I've been lost for pens for many years. I yearn to find a good one and have actually put up an ask here myself on the topic. I'll be following this thread.
For notebooks the common denominator I'll be fine with is Moleskine. Don't love it but it won't ruin my life. I sample around like crazy and 90% of what I get drives me up the wall, luckily I write every day and go through them like tissue so I'm not stuck for too long before I get to sample anew. My absolute FAVORITE notebook was from an Italian company called Impresso on Etsy -- GOD I LOVED THOSE NOTEBOOKS -- I was gifted one and bought the second. Alas they are really thick, impractical for tossing in a bag with computer, dance stuff, change of clothes, just too bulky to be a constant companion. I never even thought to check if they make slimmer notebooks until now. ON IT
Feb 12, 2024
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- fountain pens are clearly superior (the infinite inks! the ritual of cleaning them!), but i will settle for a uni jetstream in .5 (for ballpoints) or a uni signo in .038 (for gel)
- any nice pencil works, but my favorites are blackwing pearls (smooth and dark, but keeps the point) or any mitsubishi, with a nice pencil cap so you can throw in your bag in peace.
- for erasers: tombow mono or sakura foam. that's it.
- would try out which paper works better with what you choose, fountain pens are very inky and will be way better on soft smooth paper. i'am a tomoe river girl, but rhodia and several other brands do nice paper and you just have to touch to find out
Feb 12, 2024
There are opinionated stationary snobs all over the world and they're my kind of people. But it isn't weight or style or size that gets me going. Give me a thick piece of lead above all else. My recent favorite writing companion is the Mark Sheet Sharp 1.3 mechanical pencil Style B. The description says it's "Perfect for filling in bubble sheets" and the description don't lie.
Dec 3, 2024
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I'm a lefty so I have a tough relationship with smudging ink. Pencil feels right and I love being able to erase. I just ordered a new pencil from leuchtturm1917 that I am excited to write notes with.
Sep 6, 2024
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This is (I think?) a form of meditation, but it's what I use to calm my mind, especially when I've woken up in the night and need to get back to sleep. I learned it from my favorite dance teacher who starts every class with this exercise. What you do is just tell yourself things, in sentence form, that are true about wherever you are right now. Majority of them should be sensory things. Like, "I feel my sweat pants on my leg." "I feel the heater blowing my hair." "I hear a car passing outside." "I see a gray sky." "I taste the apple pie I had for dessert." Just statements about what is true right now -- and this is the important part: WITHOUT COMMENTARY. Of course, because you have a human brain and this is what it is hard-wired to do, your will start supplying commentary anyway. So when that happens you just notice it, and absolutely don't judge it or anything, it's just another "fact of the moment" -- "that was commentary." You acknowledge the commentary and then go back to stating other (non-commentary) facts until the next bout of commentary, which you then acknowledge and move on from -- or until you fall asleep, which happens shockingly fast for me once I notice and move on from my first bout of commentary. Eventually you might feel like you've run out of facts so you can start saying the sentences over to yourself, with more space in them to take up more time, and somewhere in there, a sense of peace develops? A place where, just for a moment, thoughts get lulled into taking a break? I find that as soon as I notice that I'm in that peace, huge thoughts come FLOODING IN, and then I have to calmly and gently be like, "this is commentary. back to the facts." It's refreshing and it takes a very passive form of discipline, like, you should be as relaxed as possible -- lying on the floor or on a couch, not holding a single part of your body up, maybe eyes closed, total release, but not *total* because the thoughts do need to be guided -- not controlled, not judged, not even stopped. Just guided, like re-routing a little rivulet of water that's rolling down a hill.
Feb 11, 2024
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Jan 31, 2024
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I can now linger over a cup of tea for over an hour, and it stays at the perfect temperature the whole time. The travel lid takes the game to the next level. I can make a tea at home and bring it to have on my break after teaching my first class. It sits there staying hot the whole time and I don't have to spend any of my break time making it.
Jan 24, 2024