Editing The Pen Addict 99/transcript (section)

== Episode 99 ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' This is the real episode 99, not that fake episode 99 that I mentioned last week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, way to go, way to confuse people. I know, right? Especially the way we've been pimping the episode 100, you don't want to get people confused.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep, who hired this guy?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh man, so yeah, one more episode until the big giveaway episode, and I try not to talk about it too much on Twitter, because then I get people going, well, how can I enter? Well, we're not there yet, it's a simmer down, so I need to not talk about it as much, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Huge, like, so huge. There's so much, just so much stuff happening next week, and it's going to be crazy. It's going to be crazy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's going to be crazy. But we've got good stuff to cover this week before we even get there. We actually got a pretty full-up episode this time around, so let's go with some follow-up from, I don't know, maybe, I don't know, it hadn't even been 10 episodes ago. I didn't look at the old episode number where we discussed a Kickstarter project called Draft. Do you remember this? I do. Myke, they, so Draft launched on Kickstarter, you know, and Myke and I talked about it on, yeah, I forget what episode, we'll have to go back and find it, but still.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Episode 77. Was that long ago, huh? Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Wow, these things fly by. So anyway, what Draft is, if you're not familiar with it, was what they proposed to be was a notebook subscription service where they would send you X amount of notebooks over X amount of time. It was really just, you know, it was basically, I think it boiled down to what they want to do is one notebook per month. And what you got with that was a free scanning service for you to send your notebook back. You fill up, they ship you your notebook, you fill it up, you send it back, they scan it in, and it becomes available digitally in an app that they are also designing. You also get free access to that app. So, pretty good in theory.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I kind of like the general idea of it, but they had a lot of flaws in this Kickstarter project in the way that they had set it up. There were too many, people had too many questions. It was basically too rigid of a design.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I remember we had a lot of questions.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it was too rigid of a design, right? If you're getting one notebook a month, you know, I can't fill up a notebook in a month. I don't fill up a field notes in a month, usually. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. And these notebooks are much larger. So, I think most of the questions revolved around that. And they tried to make some changes on the fly on the Kickstarter to mitigate the subscription model and where you could just buy a notebook. And when you fill that notebook, you can send it back. Anyway, it ended up, they ended up canceling the project because I think there was just, you know, it was, there were too many what ifs and how do I do that? And, you know, a little bit too many questions about it. So, what they did was they pulled that down and they went and relaunched it and called it Mod Notebooks. And it's not even a Kickstarter project. It's just basically a website now where you can go, you can order a notebook. I don't even know if you can subscribe anymore. I think you just order the notebook. And when you order the notebook, that comes with the, you're paying for the scanning service and for the digitization of it and the access in the app when you're done. So, for people who are interested in that draft Kickstarter project and were interested in something like this and thought it was a good idea, it's now back as Mod Notebooks.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Still US only.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is it really? Oh, they actually, they've been tweeting that like one of the top things on their, on their list is to get some European, they, I think they need a scanning partner over there. I think it's the hang up right now.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'll just use, I'll do it. I'll just use my Doxy Flip. I'll do it for all of Europe. Just hit me up, people. Yeah. I'll do it for you. No problem.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So, that's the thing. That's the things that people are trying to balance with this project is, okay, well, I can just, number one, I can just scan it myself.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But, you know, I think the, the selling point for them scanning it is to directly put it into the app as long as the app looks good and, you know, functions well. But, you know, a lot of other people will just take, you know, like you're saying, your Doxy Flip and scan it in themselves, put it in Evernote or whatever. But, you know, their, their app is set to sync with Evernote and Dropbox and OneNote and things like that. So, they've thought about a lot of the things. I'm still, my only hang up and why I'm, I'm not, you know, a bunch of people are, are definitely into this. But, I'm not really into it because my notebook's still private to me. And I don't care about letting someone else see what's in my notebook, even though they really are not going to care. I know in my mind, you know, they're not going to care. You know, they're, someone's in there doing a job scanning the notebook. They're not going to be sitting there reading it. But still, you know, I don't want to, you know, profess my love to Myke in, in poetry form and, you know, have Joe the scanner decide, you know, that's poster material and hang it up on the wall in their shop.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I also, there's still a thing for me, even though I don't do anything with them, like the notebook just being destroyed or whatever, recycled.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, now they're not doing that anymore. You're saying you want that or you don't want that?

'''Myke Hurley:''' I want it back.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, so that's, that's, that, that was one of the other hangups originally. This one, you have an option to get it back.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do you pay for that or how does that work?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you know? If you don't know, fine. I want to say it might be extra.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Which would make sense.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I mean. To ship back. I think you just pay for the shipping to get it back.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. I mean, it wouldn't bug me if I had to do that. Like, cause if that's, if that's an additional thing, then fine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So the thing before.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Have the notebook recycled or returned to you. It's your choice. That's what it says. It doesn't say that it costs any more, but whether it does or it doesn't, you can do that now. Which I think is a benefit. Like, I don't know. As well. The type of thing that there's kind of suggesting you should do in this book. Like plan your next big project. Mm-hmm. I want the book back. Yep. Because if I do plan my million dollar project in this book, I want the book. Yep. Like I still have all my notebooks from when I was planning 70 decibels. I have those. I have those. And that's important to me that I keep those. Exactly. Like I have all of the sketches of what I wanted the website to look like. And my original ideas for what I wanted all my shows to be. And my goals. Like I have some notebooks where it has some goals in them. And I look at the goals and how long ago I achieved those goals now. Like the five-year goals and I have achieved them. You know, it's just little things like that. Exactly.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And yeah, the old draft Kickstarter project was a destructive scanning process. They took the notebook apart to scan it. Now they do not do that anymore. They've sorted that out and are not going to be essentially tearing the pages out of the notebook to get the scanning done. So they've designed the notebook to where, you know, it'll scan it. It opens flat to be scanned. It's not destructive. So, yeah, I know Patrick Roan ordered one. So we'll have to check it out. And see what he thinks when he gets it and goes through the scanning process and all that stuff. So anyway, for those who were interested in the draft Kickstarter, it's now back available with a little bit better setup, I think, if you will, for those who are interested.