I remember David Sparks several times talking about a paper notebook in landscape, which is using for planning the week and some other notes. I was looking through this forum and also on macsparky.com but cannot find the notebook, the company, etc. Does anybody remember or @MacSparky, can you please post a link
I use a variety of Rhodia pads and Kyokuto or Maruman notebooks by my desk. I have to use the more expensive paper because the fountain pen inks I use will feather, spread and bleed on cheap Mead notebook-style paper. (Or Post It Notes.) I mainly keep a lined, 80-sheet top-stapled, Rhodia #12 pad by the keyboard - itâs A5 size, which is 8x12cm, or 3.3x4.7in, and all the pages are perforated.
I love Baron Fig as well, same notebook (even sprung for the leather cover which is very nice but a bit expensive). Baron also has a desk pad that I use and they have dot grid index cards! I looked all over for index cards with dot grid⌠Baron Fig was the only one I could find.
Rhodia has very good paper. But I prefer Apica notebooks. Leuchtturm is OK, not really good but bearable. My favitote is still Tomoe River, but those are not easy to find.
Tomoe River is outstanding paper but fountain pen ink dries very slowly on it, 20 seconds or more depending on the ink and nib size. Iâm a lefty overwriter, so I need a pen/paper/ink combo that dries relatively quickly or itâs Smudge City. So I tend towards F nibs and Rhodia paper for the most part.
Doing a search for Tomoe River led me (back) to a favorite website, jetpens.com . Oh, donât go there if youâre a pen or stationary geek like me; too tempting to order lots and lots of interesting things.
I love jetpens. When I graduated undergrad, I gave $500 worth of pencils, refills, erasers, etc. from there as party favors. I especially like the Kuru Toga Roulette - quite possibly the best pencil in the world. Why? It rotates the lead as you write so that it doesnât get that slanted part at the end that leads to breakage.
Jetpens is in the US, so shipping makes it too expensive. So, I order some Tomoe River directly from Japan once in a while (interestingly, cheaper shipping) or try to buy stuff there when I travel.