Editing The Pen Addict 123/transcript (section)

== Writing Supplies ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, we need stuff to write, right?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We need stuff to write in our stuff so we can use our pens and our paper. But anyway, I wanted to give Jenny a proper pen blog of the week this week. And check out the latest post that she did. It's just a real short post and a really great picture. It's called My Used Pocket Notebooks. So I want to talk to both you guys. And Scott, I'm going to ping you first because I know you're like a memo book user, field notes user, things like that. When you're done with a book, where does it live?

'''Scott Fuller:''' I have a little file. I have these old metal drawers right here by my desk and they're filed. I just, as soon as I fill one up, sometimes I take some pictures of some of the things that inside, you know, so I can pull it right off my phone. But generally, I archive them, stick them right in the metal box. If I need them again, pull it back out. You know, remember what I wrote down. If there was a sketch for a client in there and, you know, I just kind of want to revisit it or something like that, I can pull it right back out. But these never get thrown away.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, definitely, definitely. And I'm going to admit, and I've said this way, way long time ago in the podcast, I used to throw away my used books in the beginning. And now I realize that that was just a really bad, really bad idea. What about you, Myke? Do you use the archival box?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So, yes and no. So, I have all of my, I have two archival boxes and they're basically full up and they're full up of new and used.

'''Myke Hurley:''' But I now, they're like spilling over and sitting on the top of the boxes. I have used field notes all over the place because I don't put the used field notes box in the archival box until I've scanned anything interesting. But I'm way behind on the scanning. I'm like five books behind on the scanning.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, that'll get you. I know that dance too. And I mean, for me, I just keep mine. I have like a large like plastic bin that I keep all my new books in. And then that's got like a little section for all my used books in there too. But I like Jenny's repurposing of the field notes band of rubber to stack all these up. And it's just a really cool looking picture. So, everyone be sure to check that out and tell Jenny we said hi.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like I had an idea about scanning them in better. So, the idea would be to, because I have a Doxy Flip, which is excellent. But Doxy also do these other ones where like feed scanners, you know.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, it's like the bar. It's like a single bar looking thing.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, so my thought was to just like pop the staples out, the field notes. And then put them in a scanner and just scan them all through and then staple them back together. However, the reason I won't do this is because in so many instances, the staples are part of it. And I'll lose the staple. Yeah. So, then also like because of that, I'm not going to buy the scanner. Because for one reason or another, I won't do it. Whether I'm just going to be lazy.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I was going to say that sounds like lazy mode.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it's either I'm going to be lazy or I'm going to be upset that the staples have been ruined.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. So, no redeeming values there by doing that. So, you just got to find the time to scan. And I'm the same way. I'm way behind on my scanning, but I love my Flip. And it's really perfect for that. But yeah, you just got to set aside a good chunk of time to do it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, it kind of gets to the point where there's so many and then I'll just set like half an hour and I'll just do a bunch.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I'm getting way ahead of myself, Scott. So, it sounds like you don't do any digital scanning. If you have an old notebook, you'll just reach back in the drawer, see if you need to find an old note or an old sketch. You'll just pull it back out. There's no digital integration, right?

'''Scott Fuller:''' Not for right now. If I need something, if I need to scan it out of there for a project that I'm working on, then I will. But at this point, it's what's the best use of my time. Like you said, it takes forever to do page after page after page. So, I pull out what I need and I know it's always there if I need to go back and get it. But generally, it's take it out, pull it, put it in the computer, get right back to work.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I will say this. I mean, these guys are a sponsor, but I'm going to mention it anyway. Like with the scanning thing. So, there's a great app by Smile Software called PDF Pen Scan Plus. And they do some really interesting stuff with just the phone cameras. And really, I mean, for a lot of people, that's enough. If you're just taking the odd picture of the odd thing, like it will scan it. It will recognize the edges and like stretch the page out and fix the, like, you know, if you sometimes take a photo and the page is kind of tilted away from you because of the angle of the phone. It like tries to correct that and bring it straight and line it all up. And it will then do OCR on any text. Like, it's a pretty sweet app, actually. And I think that for people that don't necessarily feel like you need to scan, but every now and then want to take a picture of something, this is a great app for that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, very cool. I'll have to check that out. I've been wanting to look at something like that. So, cool. All right, Mr. Scott Fuller. We've beat around the bush enough. So, you are the solo founder, president. You run the show of the Studio Temporary. So, why don't you tell everyone kind of what the Studio Temporary does, what you're all about, and then we'll kind of dig into some specific stuff.

'''Scott Fuller:''' Okay. Well, like you said, I'm Scott Fuller. I'm from Noonan, Georgia. I, you know, born and raised. The Studio Temporary is a little design studio. It has no office, no space, no physical location, and thus our tagline, good design, wherever we happen to be. So, wherever I can carry my backpack, wherever I can set up, and, you know, heck, most of the time I don't even need a Wi-Fi connection. You know, that's where we are. So, started off as a little joke. The name did, anyway. And now it's turned into whatever this is. But I guess started in the back of an old sign shop, you know, working, you know, working a full-time job. And then I'd get there about 10, 11 o'clock, work till about 3 or 4 in the morning. And I was doing that, you know, 4 or 5 nights a week. And we do, you know, logo design, illustration, you know, brand strategy, posters, t-shirts. We do, you know, all kinds of stuff. Now we're broaching into, now with the Furrow books, you know, I got to design some notebooks and, you know, work on that with Aaron Zeller, which I know we'll talk about here in a little bit.