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== Tracking Methods Comparison ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' like ahead of of what most people do how they how they track their stuff so that's good but i want to talk about how i'm now tracking my stuff because it's a little bit more um complex than the situation and a little bit cleaner cleaner than the situation you're in um but we should we should talk about our good friends at pen chalet first because then we're going to get in get in deep into some fpc.ink

'''Myke Hurley:''' talk yeah i feel like we need to cleanse cleanse everybody's palates because yes nobody nobody got on my case by the way so i was happy about that i don't think you're an outlier no i don't either

'''Brad Dowdy:''' but like i'm the only person brave enough to talk totally fair absolutely yeah so we'll see i i yeah

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' platinum makie fountain pens that i have reviewed before and i love they're really inexpensive for what they are they i'll put a link in the show notes to one that i reviewed i'm shocked to see these on here i have one called the kanazawa leaf mount fuji and i don't know that that's in this series but they rotate these series out these are hand-painted uh platinum fountain pen barrels so black barrels gold trim but the artwork on there is great and they're really inexpensive for like what they are like i was surprised at the price originally like the full retail price and these are the ron retail price which is everyone loves the ron retail price is different math right so um yeah i would uh implore you to check these out they're really good he has also got tasha inks for sale i just got a bottle of that i have not tested yet and the kaweco uh the carbon sport

'''Myke Hurley:''' you know the uh the carbon fiber if you need a race car pen i think this pen writes faster because it's carbon fiber totally you know these platinum pens these macae pens yeah this is a pen which is i think a rare example of if you bought this for the fantastic ron price people would think that you spent like four times the money that you spent on a pen like this it has that look about it which i was saying that's a reason to buy this pen but it's just an interesting thing right that they look way they look way more expensive than their retail price but for the prices that you can get them for

'''Brad Dowdy:''' i mean as bananas bananas good yeah i'm pretty surprised so i i really enjoy i did not think that this would be a pen that i would particularly love mainly because you know just traditional black and gold but the artwork's really cool and i loved writing with it now i'm like anxious to get it back out and fill it up because i don't have it inked right now but when i reviewed one i was extremely pleased and we'll put the link in the show notes so you can see what i'm talking about but uh yeah

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'''Brad Dowdy:''' so i'm really glad you made that table i know i i bust on you just jokingly and it's just out of fun but i i really love that you made that table because like i think it's cool to like track your fountain pens and inks yeah um because it's helpful to know what you have inked up in particular fountain pens it's helpful to know like when you use things or what's you know i don't think i've

'''Myke Hurley:''' really realized until last week that i was doing what i was doing i can see that like in my mind it was like oh i know what ink goes in these right but that was i always say that yeah i say that all

'''Brad Dowdy:''' the time i was like oh i have this under control mike let me tell you i do not have this under control whatsoever like i just inked up a fountain pen today and i already have like 15 fountain pens inked and that is just way way way too many for me like i don't roll that way at all so there'll be some cleaning going on this weekend but what i did discover and so many people discovered before me and i'm way late on the bandwagon is fountain pen companion so i just wanted to do a little quick rundown of what fountain pen companion is and i've talked to urban's been a follower urban uh hafner who put this together he's a programmer he built this whole website on his own he uh it's a free service he has a patreon you can choose to join to support him which i have done because i think it is what he has built is pretty incredible and what fountain pen companion was made for was for people to catalog their inks essentially logging their ink libraries right and then sharing them with other people to swap basically you could see what person a has and what person b has and they could look at each other's collections see what was missing and they could trade ink samples or bottles or whatever they wanted to do and it was also a way to keep a catalog of your own personal ink collection which is something i've always wanted to do but just never got around to doing fountain pen companion made that super easy it was shocking how easy it was for me to set this up so we'll share a link to like my ink page that's public on the um on the fountain pen companion site so you have like a little profile page and i've only put in 60 inks so far let me tell you something like so if you asked me before i started cataloging my inks into fountain pen companion you said brad how many bottles of ink do you think you own my guess would have been i don't know 150 bottles give or take right that's a super outrageous ridiculous number so i have this one shelf in my closet where they're all my inks are on and i said well i'm going to start with fountain pen companion so i'm going to grab my sailor section of inks bring them out to my desk and log them all because sailor inks i know i have the most of they're my favorites and i want to start there so that was like 50 inks right out the gate and that was like one tenth of my shelf of inks i think i'm gonna have more than 150 bottles of ink mike do you think

'''Myke Hurley:''' that like doing this cataloging is going to make you do something about that or or no it doesn't have to but i just want a hundred percent yeah you think this is gonna make you get rid of some how do you

'''Brad Dowdy:''' even get rid of ink i would just sell it you know i would have like a one-time ink sale because inks are really nightmare to ship and like i might just do it in a ridiculous fashion where you get like three bottles like grab bag style or i don't know we'll see like selling one-off bottles of ink sounds like a nightmare so i'd want to do something else so we'll see i'll have to i that i haven't gotten that far this is totally going to make me look at what i have and eventually sell some things and it goes for pens too you can add in your pens here so adding it like adding in an ink is as simple as typing in the ink brand the ink color and what format you have the ink in do you have a bottle do you have a sample you know do you have it in the cartridge and hitting save and it pulls up the ink color if it's been entered into the database already so you can see like all these colorful swatches on your page you know as digitally representative as it can be which is it's pretty close like it's really good and that's it like it takes you like 20 seconds to enter in an ink and so i just grabbed all my inks all my 50 sailor inks and just put them all in in about 20 minutes and then they were all in there so what that allows me to do mike is then i can go to the pen page and enter in my own pens and that's just as quick and easy those are more just like line items like you're almost like you're filling out a spreadsheet you know pen brand pen type nib and then you take your pen page and your ink page and you go to the currently inked page mike and that's where i think you're at with your table is i can take my currently inked uh pen and go on the currently inked page i can go i have this pen with this ink in it and this is the date i inked it up and then boom i now have a page of currently inked pens right now mine it says currently inked you have five pens inked um i have about 15 so i have a little catching up to do but what i've done is just on my browser toolbar mike whenever i grab something to use i put in the information right i'm not going through spending all of saturday cataloging everything if i wanted if i have 15 minutes to catalog some inks i'll go grab some or heck even take a picture just so i can reference it without moving or bring my laptop into the closet which that seems lame but i can enter you know so many products in a short amount of time and that's the best part about this i was like oh this is going to be unwieldy it's going to be time consuming i'm not going to get any benefit from it and all of those assumptions were wrong it's very very simple to use one of my favorite things the page that will get you in trouble mike is called leaderboards i saw oh my god so you look through that and you see all of our friends names on there like we know like everybody on these pages killing these so jesse between jesse and yagen um machiato man they uh they're oh and kelly mountain of ink and there's there's like all these people uh ink antidora is in there every everyone's in here this is outrageous so um we know all these people it's outrageous so yes it's pretty one could suggest this is too many

'''Myke Hurley:''' bottles of ink one could suggest well i would not but 2002 uh bottles of ink could be oh sorry