Link Love: Gift Guides and Moleskine Apps

Inkvent has started, gift guides continue to publish (including the annual Pen Addict Podcast episode) and “…. of the year” are starting to appear. Moleskine’s digital offerings are getting a lot of attention but Notebook Stories provides some analog alternatives to the traditional Moleskine notebook.  That’s the long and short of it this week.

Gift Guides:

• The Pen Addict Podcast: Episode 387 – Costs Me Money Every Time – Holiday Gift Guide 2019 (via The Pen Addict)
• Checking Them Multiple Times, or at Least Twice (via Field Notes)
• 2019 Gift Guide: Gift Ideas for Creatives (via  Oh So Beautiful Paper)

Pens:

• Montegrappa Miya 450 Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)
• Pelikan And Luigi Colani: A Collaboration (via The Pelikan’s Perch)

Ink:

• Diamine Inkvent Calendar 2019: Introduction (No Spoilers!) (via The Pen Addict)
• Organics Studio Frog Green Shimmer (via Mountain of Ink)

Pencils:

• Pencil Review: Alpino Junior (HB) (via Polar Pencil Pusher)

Notebooks & Paper:

• SEQES Dotted Hardcover Notebook (via Mountain of Ink)
• Ikea items for planner people (via Philofaxy)
• If you change one thing for 2020, I would… (viaWood & Graphite)
• How to finish your year strong (via Quo Vadis Blog)
• Why I’m obsessed with reading books about writing in notebooks | Op-eds (via Gulf News)
• A Box of Squared Notebooks (Moleskine alternatives) (via Notebook Stories)
• Galen Leather A5 Notebook Cover (via Gourmet Pens)

Art & Creativity:

• The Best Brush Pens for Lettering and Calligraphy (via JetPens Blog)
• Daniel Smith PR101 watercolour pigment compared (via Parka Blogs)
• Best type of paper for quick urban sketching (via Liz Steel)
• Drawing has to come out of your body (via Austin Kleon)
• Drawing insects (via Nina Johansson)
• Book Review: Creating Characters for the Entertainment Industry (via Parka Blogs)
• Creatives share their biggest lessons of 2019 and how they’ll be doing things differently (via Creative Boom)

Other Interesting Things:

• Fountain Pen Shows – killing the goose that lays the golden pens? (via Inked Happiness)
• Actions by Moleskine Adds Reminders Import, Shortcuts with Parameters, and Context Menus (via MacStories)
• Moleskine’s digital notebook and visual inventory of Earth win Apple’s Apps of the Year (via It’s Nice That)
• Book Review: The Big Book of Less: Finding Joy in Living Lighter (via Parka Blogs)
• Less stress, more living (via Flow Magazine)
• Daily rituals: getting up early to read a book (via Flow Magazine)
• The use of writing letters to yourself (via Flow Magazine)
• ‘Triode’ Internet Radio App for iOS, Mac, and Apple TV (via Tools and Toys)