Link Love: Planner & Bags & More (Oh, my!)

As we move into the first official week of September, new planners are being unveiled left and right and its time for us all to get back to work or back to school. Whether you work from home or travel to an office, workshop, warehouse, shop or other locale, you need a place to stow your precious pens, planners, notebooks and other tools. What’s your favorite bag, tote, or backpack?

I waffle between my Rickshaw Bagworks Soho Tote and a Fjällräven Kånken Totepack.  I can fit my laptop into the Kånken Totepack but it’s an entirely black bag so it is a deep black hole where many items get lost at the bottom. The Soho Tote is easier to find items with all the pockets on the inside and the more horizontal shape but its not big enough when I need to schlep my laptop around. How often do you switch bags?

Pen Show Recaps:

• 2022 SF Pen Show – Definitely Not A Quick Recap (via The Pen Addict)
• From Plotters to Paper to Ebonite Pens: My 2022 San Francisco Takeaways (via The Gentleman Stationer)
• 2022 San Francisco Pen Show: The Main Event for the Modern Enthusiast (via The Gentleman Stationer)

Don’t forget to check out our own SF Pen Show Recap and we will have a guest post on Friday covering another experience.

Pens:

• The Green Grass (via Crónicas Estilográficas)
• It’s the little things we do together, a mnml guest post (via mnmlscholar)
• Parker “Jotter XL” Metal Ballpoint Pen (via Tools and Toys)
• Review: Zebra Sarasa dryX20 (via Comfortable Shoes Studio)
• Behold, Something New! The Harmonic Nib, from Opus Cineris (via The Pen Addict)
• Our Expectations with using Speciality Nibs (via dapprman)
• Kakimori Nib Review (via Nick Stewart FOUNTAIN PEN INK ART)
• Laban Solar Fountain Pen Review (via The Pen Addict)

Ink:

• The Best International Short Cartridges (via JetPens)
• Van Dieman’s Apple Cider on Kokuyo Perpanep Tsuru Tsuru (via Inkcredible Colours)
• Monarca Manglar (via Mountain of Ink)
• Cult Pens Diamine Flower Inks Set – Sweet Pea (via dapprman)
• KWZ Standard Azure #1 (via Fountain Pen Pharmacist)

Pencils:

• Step into the drawing room (via Nero’s Notes)

Notebooks & Paper:

• Kokuyo Jibun Techo English Translations (via JetPens Blog)
• Choosing a size (via Philofaxy)
• 30 Things to track in the monthly spread of your planner (via All About Planners)
• The Best Planners for 2023 (via JetPens Blog)
• A Quick Look at the Caliber Executive Notebook from CVS (via Chicana Writes)
• Hobonichi Interview: Making a Planner That Lies Flat (via JetPens Blog)
• Odyssey B5 Notebook Review (via The Pen Addict)

Art & Creativity:

• Video of a Flip-Through – Sketchbook Number 143 (via Apple-Pine)
• Typotheque develops typefaces to support the digital preservation of Indigenous languages (via It’s Nice That)
• Book Review: The Art of the Travel Journal by Abbey Sy (via Parka Blogs)
• Work in Progress with Coralie Bickford-Smith (via The Casual Optimist)

Other Interesting Things:

• Tom Bihn Cambiata | First Look Review (via Carryology)
• Ah, Technology (via Wonder Pens)
• Cult Pens 2022 World Advent Calendar (via Cult Pens News)

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