Editing The Pen Addict 130/transcript (section)

== Holiday Gift Guide ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I doubt, I highly doubt that. So, we brought Anna on, I think this is our third annual holiday gift guide show. Am I right about that?

'''Ana Reinert:''' It's actually the second, the first one I just, I just sort of squished myself in.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The first one you just complained about.

'''Ana Reinert:''' I did.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And, and then I said, fine, we'll just have you on to talk about it. And then it's worked out perfectly ever since then. So, yeah, that's what we're going to talk about today. We're going to talk about all of our recommendations for, for stationary gifts coming up this holiday season. And there's no one better to have on to talk about that besides you, Anna. So, I appreciate you coming on.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So, before we get into this, we're going to talk about Field Notes real quick. And, Myke, you got yours in this week, the new Field Notes?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I sure did. They came yesterday.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Wow. Okay. I was thinking they came like almost a week ago. So, what were your initial thoughts when you got those in?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I liked the gold. What's it called again? Gilding. The gilding. I liked that. I liked the colors. I especially liked opening them. Now, for the Pen Addict audience, in case you haven't opened one of these, our good friend of the Erasable podcast, Mr. Andy Welfie, he had a great video, an unboxing video that I watched. And he mentioned about the crack on the gilding as you open it. So, I was very excited for this. So, I thought for the listeners at home, I've opened my second pack here so I can give you an idea of what it sounds like to break open one of these things. Are you ready? Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'll do it again, just for good measure.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Nice. Oh, so good. Love little things like that. I love the colors. I think they're really interesting. I'm not going to buy any more because I actually don't think that I would use them with any quickness. I would love. I think I'm the kind of person. I think to myself how much I would love to keep like a paper date book. But I'm not that kind of person. I have to have things like that in my calendar in Fantastical on my phone or I'm just never going to use them. Like if they're not there, they're just never going to get used. So, that's how I do that. I haven't set up that way, but I love them. And also with the colors edition subscriber thing, because I am a color edition subscriber, you get these little cardboard cardboard.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I don't really know what to call them. Like it's like a ribbon, but made out of card that you can slide in. So, it's, you know, like marking your day where you are in the date book, for example.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Very nice. Yeah. It's like a bookmark and it says something on it, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' What does it say on it? Now and later. So, now on one side, later on the other side.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Gotcha. Gotcha. So, Anna, what do you think about these new editions?

'''Ana Reinert:''' These are some of my favorites. I've been super excited about them. I really like the date book because I use like a date book more to keep track of things I did on a particular day rather than tracking what I'm going to do. So, like if I went out to dinner, if we went and saw a movie, I'll just key those in so that at the end of the year I can kind of go back and see what I did. So, it's not really a journal or a diary. It's just sort of real quick notes. So, I think the little, the pocket size of the field notes will make that super handy. And I love the ledger paper from the American Tradesman. So, I was super excited that they put it in another edition. I know nobody else likes it. It's my favorite. I don't like it. I am willing to trade somebody my graph paper for another ledger. So, it's out there.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, that's heresy.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, but what's the other thing? I'm kind of outnumbered because you guys both really like the ledger paper and I don't like the ledger paper. So, you know, you kind of got that going for yourself, I guess.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I do like the ledger paper. I've actually, this is the, I've always tried in the past to not use multiple field notes books at one time, but they kind of force you to this time. And I was like, well, I guess I'll just bite the bullet. And I just finished an unexposed right before these came in. So, I'm using a graph notebook just for my notes. And I'm using a ledger notebook just for some other things. Like, I'm a big baseball nerd. So, I'm keeping some, like, baseball stuff in, like, the ledger book, which is perfect for that type of list writing. So, yeah, the ledger's great. I probably won't use the planner, the daily calendar, though. It's just not my style like you, Myke. I don't think I'll use that. But I think that's been pretty popular. Like Anna says, I've seen a lot of people kind of just gravitate to that and start using it. But overall, I think it's a good addition. It's not going to be one of my favorites.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's probably a one and done. When I use this book, I'll probably grab something else to use first. And, you know, I bought several packs. I've given one away already, which I think these are great. You know, these are great gift field notes packs. And I think that, you know, that's something we're going to talk about today in this gift guide. I think this set of field notes, the Ambition Edition, is probably their most giftable edition yet. So it's just perfect for the season and perfect for what they're trying to do and perfect to get people into field notes. So that's pretty cool.