Editing The Pen Addict 134/transcript (section)

== Field Notes Usage ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep, totally. Totally. So, you know, this is not an indictment on any edition. It's just where it's fit into my needs of using them and how cool they are and how useful they are. So number 24 is the Cold Horizon edition.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I think I might actually put this at the bottom of my list. Like, because I still, I love the way they look. I think it's one of the best looking editions because it's made with this care, you know? I like the gradient. Right. But that paper, man.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' The paper's a little rough. It's almost a little, like it's coated a little bit almost. I don't know the exact specs on it. I don't have it in front of me. But what happened with this edition for me, as has happened with several other editions, I have one opinion when I receive them the first time. Yeah. Right? You know, they're fresh out the box. You know, we haven't seen a new edition for three months. We have certain feelings about getting that new model. And then the actual using of the field notes happens. And then you kind of decide, well, did this really like live up to it? So I think when it first came out, I thought they were really beautiful. And then by the time I've used one and then compared them to other editions, it really, really dropped in the rankings for me. It's just it ended up being one of the most boring editions just out of usability. Right. And, you know, things could still change. And I've had some editions that I've kind of bagged on in the past that have actually moved up in my rankings. And the way I look at these rankings, Myke, is if I had 25 of these, one of each of these editions laid out on the table, which one would I pick up first to use? Which one would I pick up second to use?

'''Myke Hurley:''' You know, you have to kind of you have to quantify that for me, though, because does that mean? You love them and you want to keep them or you love them and you want to use them?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think this is using them. I think this is about using them. And, you know, so Expedition is the last one I would pick up and I would choose the Cold Horizon to use before the if there were only two editions, I would pick up the Cold Horizon ahead of the Expedition edition. So there's that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So you would use your favorite one? Because I mean, like, you know, the idea of the collector, like it depends how you're coming at it. You know, like if you're collecting, you probably use your least favorite first. Right. So you've got your favorite for longer in the collection. I see what you're saying. Yeah. Sure. But everybody knows, you know, you are no you are no staunch collector in the idea in the essence. You used your butcher orange. Sure. You know, like an animal.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I still get grief about that a little bit every now and then. I was telling just out of fun.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I was telling my girlfriend this story like like a week or so ago. I was like, people hated him for that. I was like, I still don't understand why you did it. But I do understand why you did it. That makes sense. I wouldn't do it. I would have kept it. But I don't I don't begrudge the fact that you've used it. But I'm sure we're going to get to butcher orange in a bit.