Editing The Pen Addict 577/transcript (section)

== Retro 51 discussion ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. Harsh left turn. Harsh left turn. We're going to get into the show. So we have our classic. We have some classic notes in this show, Myke. We have some field notes to talk about. We have some, you know, some.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Retro 51s to talk about, I guess, let's start with the retro 51 because I mentioned it most recently. The Segea waves collection, the classic waves pattern that I mentioned that I got at the DC pin show from Rickshaw. This collaboration has dropped. So I just wanted to mention that since we mentioned it last week. It hadn't gone live yet. It's gone live now. And every time I show off this pin close-ups like on my Twitch streams and stuff, people are like, ooh. They did a really good job. They did a really good job with this one. Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' When you explained it last time, maybe I didn't understand that it's like, it's almost like their Metal Smith series rather than a print. Like they've etched this in rather than printing it on. And I think that probably adds a lot of fanciness to the pin. Yep.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And I added my own fancy by swapping into a blue P8126 refill, which I think this pin is just screaming for a blue refill aside from the traditional black, which they ship with. So I have been using this pin a lot over the last week. And then also there's, you know, different cases and different pin sleeves and things like that for the project. And it also has a pencil component. So I just have the pin, but you can get like a collaboration with the pin and the pencil set. So go check that out now that it has finally launched. The other thing that launched, Myke, are the Plotter 2024 refills. And this is not normally something I would discuss except one. I'm in the pocket of big plotter, clearly. No, I'm just kidding. I'm obviously a huge fan. Like it's not, it's no surprise that I'm into the plotter system. But when you're thinking about what you're currently using for your planners and journals, and in my case, I'm using a Plotter narrow. And it not being the most popular size item, I don't want to wait until like December to get my next year's refills because I know this is exactly what I'm going to be using for the next year. Right. Sometimes it's hard to know this time of year, what you're going to be using in 2024. Not everyone is consistent from year to year. Hand raised. I have definitely swapped in and out of plenty of things over the years, but I'm really kind of. No. We have this show, Myke, called the Panetic Podcast. You're going to do it for your work, Brad.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Do it for your work. That's it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' No, I'm not changing next year. In fact, I've already bought the 2024 refills, just the weekly and monthly refills. Right. I don't have to buy like any of the notebook paper. I just have to buy like the calendar dated stuff. So I wanted to go ahead and get ahead of that game because I did not want to forget to to I didn't want them to become unavailable. You know, when I forget to order them come December or January going, oh, yeah, I probably should order these. And boom, 2020 for refills are gone because that's how planners work. Right. They can't make these infinitely because they're not going to sell them once 2024 rolls around. So I just wanted to bring that up because I got that email. And yeah, so I've got my that and that's you'll be proud of me, Myke. Listeners, you're going to be proud of me. That's all I bought. I just bought the refills. I bought the weekly calendar and the monthly calendar. And that was it. That was my entire order.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Let me tell you, Brad, Daddy, I will do everything in my life to avoid printing fixed dates on a product. Yeah, that sounds terrible. Let me tell you, I don't want to live this life. Right. Of like. Yep. It's too much. I mean, maybe one day. Right. Like, basically, I don't want to do it for as long as my company's running the way that it does, which is like I'm keeping track of the inventory. You know, like maybe one day in the future, somebody else is keeping track of like inventory forecasting and it will be easier. But like the thought of like trying to guess how many to order for that. Oh, it seems horrible. Like the bets on it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Just when you look at someone like Hobonichi. Yeah. It just gives me such anxiety. Yep. But they clearly know what they're doing. Right. But the variety in systems that they have in sizes and patterns and colors that are almost all of it is date stamped. It's not blank. They have a few blank products.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Maybe I'm weird. Maybe I'm different. I don't know. But like I don't need things to be date stamped. Like I can write the date in. But like. Yeah. Obviously, people like it. Right. Obviously, people like it. But I don't know. Like so part of my thinking, like part of my personal reasoning for why I don't like to date stamp products. And I have multiple products now that take that are like expected to be used on certain days. And I have more coming is that like I know for me that it would be wasteful. Like that there would be days where I wouldn't use. Mm-hmm. And like so for me personally, like if I had a journal, which I did have, or like I had like Obonichi, I didn't write in it on weekends. So it's like a page wasted every single time. Yep. And so like, yeah, I just like I like being able to date things myself.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I agree. And like that's how I got into the format that I'm in now with like the half page having like seven days on it. Right. I can't do a one page per day thing. Like I've tried and failed that many times just for the reasons that you were talking about. And the original format that I got into was Midori's Traveler's Notebooks format. So it had the seven days, except you just wrote in the dates. Right. So they could sell it year round. Yeah. See, I like that. That's what I do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. Like. So, yeah. So I used. It's just different people, different things. And like. Absolutely. Absolutely. And it's normal. Right. Like people, you know, they make their people that make products. They make them based on the way that they use them first, I think.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Right. So this is this is both Myke and I freaking out as people who have made products going. This sounds like a nightmare because it really does. So get your get your dated refills because they don't last forever if you're into whatever system you use. But, yeah, I look at Hobonichi Midori and Leuchtturm are the ones that stand out to me is like that is such a huge volume of this. And you just have to really, really have to go strong like for the next three months to get all this 2024 stuff sold. And then poof, it's going to vanish. And then you're left with hopefully not much, but you never know.