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== Sketchnote Notebook Review ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It might actually work on the sketchnote notebook, Myke. You know that the sketchnote idea book from our friend Myke Rodie, that's on Kickstarter. How many days left? Like two days left on this Kickstarter campaign? Yeah. I got one. It just came in the mail. I just opened it up. Me too. Yesterday. Oh, you got yours too?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I got one as well.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, look at you. Fancy man. Mr. Fancy man over there.

'''Myke Hurley:''' There's 62 hours to go as we're recording this. So just a couple of days left.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay. So give me your thoughts. It's unbelievable. Right? Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We're on the same page. I cannot fathom how they are producing a notebook of this quality and selling it for $20.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So y'all need to go to Kickstarter and back this notebook. If you're... So it's... Think of your standard Moleskine Rhodia Leuchtturm A5 size notebook.

'''Myke Hurley:''' With the most beautiful texture on this cover. Oh my God.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And those notebooks are normally like 192 pages or close to that 200 page range. This is the same size and it's only 128 pages. So it's thick sketchnote paper. Like it's made to handle a lot of media.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's almost like cardboard. It's so thick. Like this is genuinely like just from a paper and feel... Like it's one of the nicer notebooks that I've handled. I haven't put it through its paces yet completely with pens and stuff. But just in general, like the quality of all of this is bananas for the price.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. It really is. And like it lays flat mostly. You know, when you're drawing, you don't want to have to deal with like the spine and the curvature and things getting, you know, out of whack. Like it lays flat and you can make your drawings and your sketchnotes. It's just... It's extraordinarily well done and it looks fantastic. So I look forward to giving it a full test run. You know, they had so many prototype testers on their campaign page that use so many different products on the page. You can see how they perform. You can go look at it. There's no doubt it's going to handle like anything I can throw at it. Like all the people that were in there testing them out early. Like they could find no wrong with it, which is wonderful. So I look forward to it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like these are just production samples, but like, I mean, they seem ready to sell to me, right? Like I think they've done a incredible job.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I got a prototype and I'm wondering if Myke Sciano from Airship sent the same note that he sent to me, said, hey, this is a prototype. There's a couple little things on here that you might catch that we changed in the final version. Okay. I haven't looked yet. And I was like, yes, this is the challenge I'm up for. Because as you're about to find out when we talk about the theme system journal, that's our big topic today, that I'm kind of in a retentive at looking at products like this. So I look forward to going through my sketchnote idea book and, you know, seeing what little things he might have changed in the final version. But these prototypes look great. So yeah, they're awesome.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It's a really wonderful thing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I opened this up on, nah. Okay, maybe you should be. Yeah. Oh, so no, we'll get there. We're almost there. But I want to talk about one more thing. So I did an unboxing stream yesterday on Twitch. And that's where I opened the sketchnote idea book and talked about it and all those things. And I also opened up the new Kaweco Lilliput stainless steel cap ballpoint. And like for a normal person, this is, you know, a no big deal type of pen. But for me, it's a big deal type of pen. Because I love the Lilliput so much. I just think it's like this little feat of engineering. And I understand it's not for everyone. It's a small pen. It's, you know, not everyone's going to like the format of it. And I use the fountain pens regularly. And I use the ballpoint pen in the aluminum retractable version, which is actually too small for me. Like I don't recommend that one because it's too small and too light with the retractable click mechanism on it. And it's an awesome feat of engineering. But it's too small. So I've been waiting for one of the capped models to come in a material that I like. It already came in brass and copper. But I generally like the no after smell of stainless steel metal on my fingertips. So I've been actually clamoring for this pen for a while. I have it right here. I'm unthreatening it. I need to take a lot of pictures of this pen because it is really unique. Like the refill holder, I guess. Like it's not really a mechanism because it's a capped pen, but it holds D1 refills. Like it's this metal part designed to just fit a D1 refill. And then you screw that part into the barrel. Like it's super crazy. So I know this pen isn't for everyone. But this pen is one of my favorites. And you're going to be sick of me talking about it and sharing it on Instagram and other places. Because I don't know what it is about the Lilliput that gets me so well. But that's like one of the perfect Brad Dowdy Pen Addict pens. And I just wanted to throw that out there that I now have my perfect ballpoint model. The only thing left for me to do is figure out my perfect D1 refill for that. I haven't done that yet. I just opened it yesterday. And in the closet of Doom, the location of D1 refills is not something I currently have indexed. So it might take me a little while to find my D1 refill stash because they're really, really small. And I don't know where they are right now. And I don't want to order any again. So I need to go work on that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Stainless steel is a good material for this pen. I agree with you. Because brass and copper, I just can't deal with it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I can't deal with it. And this is a very hands-on pen being this small. The entirety of the pen fits in your hands. So it's very metal-rific, I guess you could say. You could. That's a word, right? I'm pretty sure it's a word.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm so scared of this next topic we've got here, Brad.