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== Planner Advice ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' TimesReader writes in and says, What would you recommend to someone who is not core pen audience, doesn't want to spend a lot of money, and is just interested in a basic, durable, nice, reliable pen to jot down random bits and pieces for later processing?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I have never pen-abled someone harder than your buddy, Stephen Hackett, with the Uniball Jetstream Sport.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know that's not the answer you were looking for. It is what it is. You were thinking fountain pen. They didn't specifically say fountain pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' No, I wouldn't have gone with fountain pen for this. That doesn't seem right.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' If you want durable, nice, reliable pen, it may not fall in the nice category. Technically, it's very nice for what it is, but it's like a 250 rubber pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I know this pen very well from knowing Stephen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' He's used it for years, since the first time he came on the Pen Addict back when we started. And he's never changed. I can really appreciate that. John Gruber has been singularly using the Zebra Sarasa clip. He's now switched, actually, to the .5, he says, because his eyesight's getting bad. He's using .3 before. This is a tougher question than it should be, because I take it too seriously. But that's why I said the Jetstream first. This is a pen you get that you can get at the grocery store sometimes that is better than every other pen you're using on a daily basis if you're not into pens. It just is. So I don't know if that's the sexy answer, but I feel like that's the answer. You know, the pens off the store shelf, like the Sino, Signo 307, Uniball. Signo 307, awesome pen. Uniball Vision, Elite, awesome pen. So, you know, like you can get some really killer stuff if you know which one to buy. So I'm open to elaboration on that, Times Reader. If you have some more specifics to hit on, we can do that for sure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So Praxis needs some planner advice. What would be your recommendation for weekly planners? I've been checking out the Hobonichi Techo Weeks and Midori Pouch Diary, but want to know if there's anything more that I might be overlooking. I've never heard of the Midori Pouch Diary.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that one either. I'll have to look at that. So my recommendation is the Traveler's Weekly Planner, which is similar to the Weeks, but fits in the Traveler's Notebook system. So I think that's great. I used Sumkin this year. They made that style. They're not making it this year. But look at what Sumkin's doing. That's something different. And they make unique kind of diaries like that that are more Weeks style, the Hobonichi Techo Weeks style, than your big bulky stuff.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I bought Idina for her birthday. Sumkin making a sketching planner.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yes.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Which is really nice.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It is really cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And it's also a very clever thing to do.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' They're doing a good job. I really like their stuff. And that's kind of out of nowhere. The only other thing, and this is adding, this is where your decisions between what you're looking for matter the most. Like the Weeks and the Pouch Diary and the things I've recommended tend to be simpler and easier to use. And then you get into the Jiban Techo, which can be overwhelming. But if you need, if you just want to lay eyeballs on something completely different, check that out. It's the kind of one of the bigger popular planners, like the full size Hobonichi Techo, the A6 sizes and the A5 sizes. So it's like that, even to the nth degree.