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[2]cygnoir.net
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Fiction, foibles, and fountain pens from a black swan with digital wings. Posts
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[16]Jan 20, 2024 ∞
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How I Pocket Notebook
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Many different creativity systems^[17]1 stress the importance of the “capture”
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or “inbox” step — whatever you call it, it’s a place where you gather your
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ideas. It should be frictionless and ubiquitous.
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Though we exist in an age where technology has wrested the “frictionless and
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ubiquitous” narrative away from analog tools, I maintain that the old ways can
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be the best ones in this case. Enter the pocket notebook.
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Much has been written by smarter minds about the pocket notebook and its myriad
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uses. For this post, I’ll be focusing on my particular setup and sharing how I
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use it in the hopes you might also find it useful.
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First, the pocket notebook itself. My rules are minimal: The paper has to take
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fountain pen ink well, and the notebook can’t be something too fancy to use for
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any old thing. Currently I’m using a [18]Lochby Pocket Notebook refill for the
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dot-grid Tomoe River paper, which is more fountain pen ink friendly than others
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I’ve tried.
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And this would be enough for my frictionless and ubiquitous capture notebook,
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except I am very rough on notebooks and wanted a cover to keep it somewhat
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intact. My local stationery store, [19]Oblation Papers and Press, sold me a
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beautiful leather cover by [20]Goby Design that fits pocket-sized refills like
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the Lochby one I use as well as pocket notebooks from Field Notes, Goulet Pens,
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and Moleskine. The leather is sturdy and has worn beautifully.
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OK, notebook in a cover.^[21]2 That’s enough, right? Well ... not quite. As I
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started to use this combination, I realized that I needed something to keep it
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closed when I wasn’t using it, and open while I was. There are fancy brass
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clips that Traveler’s Notebook aficionados have shared, but I’m lower-fuss than
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that. I had a couple large-size magnetic [22]OliClips lying around, so I tried
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affixing one to the front cover and another to the back. Et voila! A makeshift
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magnetic closure plus bookmark plus notebook-holder-opener (whatever that’s
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properly called).
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an open pocket notebook in an olive green leather cover with iridescent
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OliClips on front and back and an iridescent Kaweco Sport fountain pen
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Now we have a notebook in a cover with a magnetic closure and bookmark. We’re
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done, right? But but but ... what if it had a pen loop? I tried sliding on a
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spare pen loop, but it bulked everything up awkwardly. I stared at this a long
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time until I simply slipped the clip on my Kaweco Sport onto the edge of the
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OliClip on the back cover. And it stayed! I haven’t tested the pen-clippiness
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with something larger than a pocket pen, so exercise caution here.
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an olive green leather pocket notebook cover with OliClips and an iridescent
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Kaweco Sport fountain pen
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OK, now I’m done. 😂
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1. I’ve stopped using the phrase "productivity systems" because it implies
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that our most important work is that of production. Creation is much more
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important to me. [23]↩︎
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2. And now I have The Smiths’ “Girlfriend in a Coma” in my head: “Notebook in
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a cover, I know, I know, it’s serious.” [24]↩︎
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• [25]#Photos
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• [26]#Fountain Pens
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• Kudos
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[17] https://www.cygnoir.net/2024/01/20/how-i-pocket.html#fn1-862
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[18] https://www.lochby.com/collections/products/products/pocket-journal-refill
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[19] https://www.oblationpapers.com/
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[20] https://www.goby-design.com/
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[21] https://www.cygnoir.net/2024/01/20/how-i-pocket.html#fn2-862
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[22] https://www.etsy.com/shop/OLIBLOCK
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