Link Love

I know my Link Love lists look ridiculously long but this is pared down from the over 200 individual posts I read since the last Link Love. There’s a lot of chatter this week about how and why people are writing things down and a resurgence of interest in an assortment of budget tools. Picking one favorite article each week is a new tradition and this week had so many it was hard to pick just one. But anytime someone uses an SUV in their testing process is when you get bumped to the top of the list.

Article of the week:

• Mechanical Pencil Torture Test (via Boing Boing)

Notebooks:

• How I Use Notebooks (The Productivityist)
• Hybrid Journal (via James Gowans)
• Making Bullet Journal My Own (via Modern Stationer)
• Rhodia Webnotebook (via The Pencil Case Blog)
• Boorum & Pease/Esselte Black Notebooks (via Notebook Stories)
• Rhodia + Circa (via RhodiaDrive)
• Raydori (via The Newsprint)
• Why I Journal (via My Pen Needs Ink)
• Magnote Magnetic Notebooks (via Office Supply Geek)
• Ending the Planner Fail Cycle (via Plannerisms)

Pens:

• Franklin Christoph Pocket Smoke and Ice (via Clicky Post)
• Ishuja NowNThen Eco-Essential Bamboo pen and pencil set (via Gourmet Pens)
• Edison Beaumont Review (via Pen Addict)
• Staedtler Silver Ball 404 0.3mm (via A Penchant for Paper)
• Paper Mate Liquid Flair – Red (via Clicky Post)
• Ohto Capstick Ballpoint Review (via Pen Pursuit)
• Pentel EnerGel Multi-function Pen Review (via Unroyal Warrant)
• Retro 51 Tornado in Kiwi (via Gourmet Pens)
• Pilot Plumix fountain pen review (via Funkmon on Pens)
• The Pilot Metropolitan/Lizard/Fine nib (via From The Pen Cup)
• Esterbrook #2312 Italic Medium (via FPQuest)
• Dollar Demonstrator Fountain Pen 717i (via Write To Me Often)

Ink:

• Noodler’s Army Green (via Alt.Haven)
• Kaweco Caramel Brown (via A Fool With A Pen)
• New Inks from Sailor (via Inkdependence)
• Organics Studio Arsenic Grey (via Ed Jelley)
• Kaweco Summer Purple ink review (via Pens Paper Pencils)

Pencils:

• Monteverde One Touch Stylus Tool Mechanical Pencil reviewed by both Pencil Revolution AND Woodclinched
• Razor Sharp (via Rhodia Drive)
• Eberhard Faber MONGOL 482 (via My Pencils Draw Worlds)
• Secrets to a Great Point (via Pencil Revolution)

Other Stuff:

(Video of calligraphy by Leigh Reyes)

• Midori ‘Japan works’ ruler (via A Fool With A Pen)
• Book Expo (and the lack of notebooks) (via Notebook Stories)
• City of Industry Enamel Pins (via Paper Pastries)
• Stapler of the Week: 1938 Ace Pilot Model 404 (via To Type, Shoot Straight and Speak The Truth)
• DIY Envelope Addressing Tutorial (via Oh So Beautiful Paper)
• Caitlin Calligraphy Worksheets and Writing Samples (via The Postman’s Knock)
• Solar Stationery Workshop in Chicago, June 22 (via Letter Writers Alliance)