Wife company gave her a Mont Blanc pen. It cost almost an MacBook Air. She’s not using it so it falls under my care. I’m thinking to myself - the replacement nib must have cost a bomb and therefore only use it to sign cheques, which is to say not many at all per month. How much do these nibs cost anyway???
Do you have a paper brand or weight that you recommend for use with good pens, not fountain pens–I have several nice rollerball pens from Levenger, that would be cheaper from someplace like Office Depot or Amazon rather than ordering specialized paper from Levenger?
Try HP 25 lb printer paper, or Kokuyo paper that you punch yourself.
The HP paper works well with laser printers and fountain pens. It means that you can design your own layouts. The Kokuyo paper is excellent with fountain pens, but can leave paper dust in your printer. Both work well with fountain pens, but the ink makes a huge difference, too.
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Thank you, I’ve made a note of it for future reference. Much appreciated.
I use really cheap gel ink pens and I’ll write on anything that’s ruled the way I like—either dot grid or something resembling narrow-ruled paper with a three-inch legal margin. I also prefer un-punched loose-leaf paper to pads. A few Amazon vendors sell letter-sized, 100gsm loose-leaf dot grid paper, but I haven’t found anything letter-sized with legal or Cornell margin. (Some Etsy sellers offer loose-leaf, un-punched paper, but not letter-sized.) I really like green-tinted paper a la engineering or accounting analysis pads: it’s easy on the eyes.
Most of my hand-written notes are taken during meetings, phone calls, and IRL or online lectures and I don’t archive them. If there’s anything in them that’s important to keep, I’ll extract it and type it into NotePlan if it’s administrative in nature or Obsidian if it’s research-related.
I do use Leuchterm1917 soft-cover notebooks for my photography notebooks, which I use in a manner akin to a lab notebook—e.g., noting down how I’ve set up a particular shot when I’m experimenting with a new shooting technique or a new post-processing “recipe.” I need something portable for those, and neither loose-leaf nor a disc-bound notebook really works for that.
Thank you, that is helpful and appreciated.