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== Paper Choice Concerns ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Because the spending time creating the thing actually ties in with point two and point three is I don't want to question the paper I use and I don't want to question the printer ink that I use. Because I will not be getting these professionally made, right? The idea is...

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, you actually kind of hit the nail on the head of what I was... I think I was trying to get at was why I don't want to make them. Because I don't want to have to deal with that. It's not the design so much, I think, which is what I'm resistant to. It's the making of the thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Right. And it's not that the making of the thing is bad. It's that the making of the thing makes me question, well, the printer cartridge that I'm using in this printer... I would never be happy. How is a liquid ink going to handle that black line if I run across it? What paper is going to... You know, what copier paper is going to use this? You know, there's actually some decent copy papers out there now. That could be all kinds of pen friendly. There's actually one by Kukuyo that one of my friends gave me some samples of. Which was just brilliant white copy paper, you know, bought in like 500 sheet packs. And I was like, you know, you could really do something cool with this. But it's the combination of creating the layout and matching the paper and matching the ink to an idea that when I'm done with, I'll be content with just grabbing and using any pen, any paper, any time, or any ink, any time, and be happy with that. Like, there's an overhead in discbound that I cannot, at this time, get past, right? I have enough overhead as it is, which we'll probably be talking about. But, you know, I'm trying. Like, that's too fussy. But I 1,000% get it. Like, I've looked at Circa for years. And I've looked at other people using the Circa system. And I'm just kind of fascinated by it, right? It's a really cool system. And for people that, like, really live and breathe that system, they don't want anything else. And, like, I get it. But William Hanna, which I mentioned a minute ago, they make, like, the super fancy version, like, the real stationary nerd version of these. I've seen some of these in person. And you can, like, pick and choose your interiors and exteriors. Like, you can really design a really cool cover and disc system. But the problem is still, like, I got to pick out the paper and I got to print it out to how I want. And just there's a level, a barrier to entry there, if you will, that I'm not willing to get past.

'''Myke Hurley:''' The next one caught me completely off guard. And I'm sure you're familiar with the Shinolo brand. And we've actually probably talked about their notebooks in the past. They're from Detroit, right? Yeah, they're a watchmaker in Detroit. And that's how they kind of rebooted the brand. It was, there's a whole long story there. You can go look up Shinolo history. It was a completely different product. But it was basically a Detroit revitalization project. And they've done very well. So they added accessories into their watch lineup. And it started with notebooks. And I've tested out some of the notebooks. And the paper was really bad. It's, like, you know, just not good for a lot of pens type of paper. So I just kind of, you know, blew them off. And I was like, okay, you know, this is just, like, more of a marketing thing than, like, a real focus and importance on their notebook, right? It's an add-on type of thing to the rest of their products. But I got a link to what's called the Shinola Runwell Planner. And what that is, it is actually the thing. It solves the one problem that I mentioned to where I don't have the month layout handy for the calendar. At the start of every month, it gives you that two-page layout before going into your four weeks, say, of the following month. So, like, if I have May getting ready to come up and I have my two-page, my one-week-per-two-days, excuse me, one-week-per-two-page layout, all these planner terms get confusing.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It gets very confusing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Before May starts, I will get May's calendar, two-page monthly calendar before that. So am I making sense? Right? So when April ends, the next page, I get a two-page calendar for May.