Editing The Pen Addict 468/transcript (section)

== Digital Calendars vs Task Managers ==


'''Myke:''' I don't think so either. Like I, it's not, I've never wanted to do it. Yeah. And it is on very rare occasions. I will put like a task in a calendar in the sense of like, you know, I, so like one, one example for me is actually something I just done. I know I have a big edit coming up in a couple of weeks and it's at a time when I have a lot of other things going on. So I just blocked that time out in the calendar. So I realized, like remembered, don't put anything else in here. But honestly, I never do this. This was like a standout thing for me that I did do it because it's a task, right? But anyway, I really like this, this, I think that what you're moving to here, at least it makes more sense to me because it doesn't really feel like you're just duplicating the same stuff from one place to another and then having to reconcile it back again.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. And I see what you're saying like about that and why that was, didn't make a lot of sense for like how I was doing it. And it turns out like I've broken that system, right? That system no longer works because the way I work, I've discovered that that doesn't work for me anymore. It's broken. So I'm going to, I'm going to do this, even though I've kind of always done this type of thing, like me rolling into this is not going to be like a sea change type of situation. It's just going to be a little bit more organized and that's what I need. I'm not going like full productivity guru here. Like that's, that's something that would force me to lose all of my hair, but I'm doing things that are just going to help me get through the day better and be happy at the end of the day.

'''Myke:''' Going to change like the physical size of the planner. I mean, cause you were going before with like seven days over two pages and now it's a page

'''Brad:''' per day. So fun thing, Myke, about disbound systems is you can add and remove pages as you go. Yep. So I put in originally, let's see, starting Thursday, I think I put in a month and I think I could probably fit in two months in this planner cover without overrunning it.

'''Myke:''' Do you have anything else in the planner? I don't remember anymore.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. Blank sheets. Like I have two sections of blank sheets. One is kind of like a business section and that's all like William Hannah planner sheets, just like a dot grid sheet. And then the back section are a five Mormon croquis pages that I've, I've hole punched. And I just got some Kukuyo printer paper that you can get in bulk. Like it's nice. It's good fountain pen friendly paper. And it comes in like a 500 sheet, like ream of paper and it's a five size right out the gate. So I just have to hole punch it. So I'll be switching that out with like the croquis and that, cause I like to have those papers in the back just to play with. And then I have like the middle section, the middle section actually might go away now that I have more singular page notes in here. But like what I'll take the middle section for is say, like I was alluding to the printer stuff before is I'll just kind of collect all my notes there. Like, okay, I need to get, you know, paper type, paper size, you know, print files, like just kind of make a list of, Hey, printer job, whatever I'm going to call it here. And then that would go on like this bigger note page in the middle of the book. That way I don't have to go hunt it down page by page in the calendar area of the book, if you will.

'''Myke:''' It's funny. I've never seen this thing. We've been using it for so long now and I've never actually been able to see it.

'''Brad:''' Yep. Yep. I keep using it and it's, it's good because I'm just making it more and more work for me. Right? Like you start with a certain thing and you figure it out. Like this works, this doesn't work. And with this type of notebook, it's not like a singular bound notebook, like a Hobonichi was like, well, two months in, it doesn't work. What do I do now? Well, this one I can kind of change as I go. Right? I was like, Oh, I want to try something else because I think it's going to work better for me. And I can add in extras that make it even more enjoyable. Like with the extra paper in the back, you know, it's a, you know, it's, it's, it's not cheap. It's expensive. And you have to have like things like a hole punch to be able to add things like the Mormon croquis paper in there or the Kukuyo printer paper in there. But you know, I've been using it long enough now to where I feel like those extra costs are worth it because it's, it's all here.

'''Brad:''' The only thing it really, the only thing this book isn't is like a journal, like nothing journal style goes in here. Right.

'''Myke:''' You're not, you're not writing like your thoughts and feelings and stuff. No, no, no. All right.

'''Brad:''' No.

'''Brad:''' Okay. So yeah. Yeah. It's good. It's, it's working. And I'm excited to try these new pages to see if my assumptions are correct on how this is going to work for me. I think it's going to work well.

'''Myke:''' Yeah.

'''Myke:''' Very cool.

'''Brad:''' Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. You know what else is very cool, Myke?

'''Myke:''' Tell me.

'''Brad:''' A DM I got from, I'm just going to call them my friends at Drillog because I'm trying to get in their good graces. Our good friends at Drillog, Myke.

'''Brad:''' Okay. I'm trying to get in their good graces. You know Drillog. All friends at Drillog. They're the highly engineered dip nib pen that is literally made just for me and probably no one else on the entire planet because they're very expensive and it's a micro metal tip. Right. You look at these things and you're going, wow, I'm going to pay $300 for a dip nib pilot high tech C. That sounds terrible. Except to me, it sounds like the greatest product in the history of the universe. So yeah, I, y'all heard me rave over this product for having never touched it. Right. Like I've literally never touched it. It might be terrible. Right. Like all this is going to come down. I'm going to get one of these and it's going to be like womp womp. And it's like, they just lit a bunch of money on fire. It's bad.

'''Brad:''' But you know, at least like what I'm seeing so far is it's been positively reviewed from the very few specific people that this is made for. Right. This is not made for everybody. Like under no circumstances is this pen for everybody, but it is totally for me. So they sent me a DM. And I mean, believe me, I'm not, I'm not the only one. It was very boiler, boilerplate content, but they're coming to Kickstarter, Myke. That's what we alluded to a couple of weeks ago saying they were going to do a crowdfunding thing, but we didn't know what it was going to be. I assumed Kickstarter now that Kickstarter has expanded to some other countries, including Japan. So they are going to be on Kickstarter and they wanted me to share the upcoming project page where you can log into your Kickstarter account and be notified when they launch. So you just click this little save thing. Go press the button. Look at that picture on that page, Myke. Huh? Look at that picture on the drill log page. It's good. Drill log Kickstarter. Oh, I need that. I need that.

'''Myke:''' I will instantly back one of these. Like I'm in. I am in it. Really? Oh, yeah. Okay. Look at it. I know. Right. Look at it. It's beautiful.

'''Brad:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. So guess what? What? I gave them my shipping address already. Uh-huh.