Recording Thoughts

Buying a pen that tarnishes…on purpose?

So the big names in what I’ll the functional metal pen space – Big Idea Designs and Tactile Turn (and probably many others) offer their pens in brass, bronze and copper. The idea seems to be that while shiny and new when you get them, they age and gain a patina. Ok, we know from… April 29, 2025

How Did You Digitize Your Journals?

I’ve got about 35 volumes of journals I’ve kept over the years, and I’d like to digitize them. The problem is there are so many options out there it’s overwhelming at first glance. Mark Koester as a nice article, but it’s from 2019 and I suspect things are quite a bit different now. I’m not… November 18, 2023

Morning pages – in the journal or separate book?

I started doing morning pages a while back, and I been doing them in a these cheap kraft notebooks. I didn’t know how this would turn out, and doing the math I could see it would mean filling a few books a year. But now I’m thinking of moving them into my journal.