Editing The Pen Addict 284/transcript (section)

== Planner Covers ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's not going to fit. And, you know, it's hard to find one for that case. So Anna and I kind of went the same route. You got to look at a custom maker that makes a lot of different cases for a lot of different notebooks. I went with my good friend Keegan over at one star leather. Just reach out to him. He may already have a week's pattern. If not, I'm sure he would make it. And I think that would fit well. Anna, who was, who were the companies you were, you were looking at?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I found a few companies over on Etsy that make different ones. I found Lyra and company that make fabric covers. I'm not sure if they had one that held three pens, but I knew, no, they held at least two, but they were custom made. So I think you could request something that was a little bit larger. The other one was, and they were out of the UK. Then another one called, and I'm going to butcher the pronunciation. So just bear with me.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Cataneta out of, I think Spain or Portugal that did faux leather and then stride Ridge, which was very similar to one star leather. And they had, I believe slots on the outside. That was sort of a, like an open slot that theoretically would hold, probably hold three pens, but your pens would touch. But they were really,

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I like that shape though, of the stride Ridge. It was really nice. That's a really neat, really neat design. I have not seen that before. That looks really cool. And, you know, it's already a weeks shape, right? It's already a weeks shape design. And same with the Cataneta. I'm going to go with, with you there. They also have like the design for the week specifically. So yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's, that's kind of the way to go for that particular planner. Cause it's such a good planner, but it is a bit of a unique size. So you need someone that's going to be able to format to that. So. Yeah.

'''Ana Reinert:''' And all three of them already had like weeks specific sizes, but I think because they are like, they're made to order for the most part, I think you could probably request, Hey, I could you make one specific to hold my three pens? And, but they, the designs were already pretty specific to hold credit cards and a pen slot and the weeks. So it was just probably a matter of saying, Hey, I really want slotted for three pens. Yeah. A lot closer than I thought I'd get. Cause it was a very specific request.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. Yeah. Very good. I like it. All right. So this next one from Jonathan badly, desk, tidying ideas, and also the best way to wrap pins and ink safely. So two, two part question. We'll take the first one. First, the desk tidying ideas. I feel almost dirty, not choosing something from dudek modern goods, because I have like all the things and that's, what's on my desk and then what I use. So I tried to branch out a little bit and I've been following Peg and all because they've done some interesting case designs. It turns out they have a bunch of desk organizers as well. So we'll put a link to that in the show notes. They're a pine wood made. There's like five different sizes you can get or four different sizes you can get from holding just a few pins to something that's like, I don't know, it looks like about 12 or 16 inches long that cold can hold all kinds of stuff. So, you know, that's something I would look at. They're kind of a newish company, kind of on the, on the come up, getting a lot of press these days and they make really good products. I know a lot of people that are listeners are fan or fans of the brand. So that's something I'd check out at Peg and all. Ana, what did you choose?

'''Ana Reinert:''' I sit next to a lovely gentleman, but he's kind of a pig. So my first was file it or recycle it. Usually desk tidying is paper problems first and then putting things away. So then after that was jars and Ikea.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I like the jar route. I use that actually in my closet, you know, jars and cups, but I don't have those out on my desk. I've been tempted though, to get some like kind of nicer, fancy, fancier jars to, to do that. How about you, Myke?

'''Myke Hurley:''' So I will go with do that. Modern Goods because all my pens are arranged into do that. Modern Goods blocks. And then for more bigger storage stuff, Ikea's office supply range and office furniture. There's a lot of really great options. You know, like I have this like, this like six draw thingamajig, which has like different depths in the drawers. And I was able to buy these rubber inserts. I just put my pens into, so they don't roll around inside of the drawers. Like they just have a bunch of good stuff. Just go poke around on Ikea and you will come out with some good organization options. Cause that's what they're all about.