Editing The Pen Addict 119/transcript (section)

== Rokerfaden Toschenbegleiter ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' All right. So, John, I've read a lot of your reviews, but I don't know that any of them broke the pen internet like your recent Rokerfaden Toschenbegleiter review. It was everywhere because it, I mean, let's face it, I mean, it was an awesome review. So, tell me what prompted the purchase of this, how you use it, why you use it, and kind of break it all down for us, and then we'll pick up Myke off the floor after he faints.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Well, naturally, I heard about it, I think, like most people in this community from your podcast, because Myke got his hands in one and talked about it on the pen addict. And it's, you know, I have had experiences in the past with like personal organizers, and I had a day runner when I was a graduate student. Oh, yeah. And I always, you know, I've always tried to keep an analog calendar and address book and everything, and I was never very good at it. And when the digital era came, and now that I can sync calendars and address books on, you know, on my digital stuff, I just figured I didn't need that kind of thing anymore. Um, but it's just seems so appealing, and the clip system seems so great. And I was like, oh, all this stuff that I stick in my satchel every day when I leave, it could all go in there, right? It doesn't, it doesn't force you to use a, um, a proprietary format for everything. Um, you know, it doesn't have a proprietary size, you can get it in several different sizes. Uh, it was handmade, it was really beautiful, it had an ingenious system of keeping stuff inside it. And I love the idea of the, um, you know, the clear plastic, uh, sleeves, where you could put, you know, um, little keepsakes, business cards, you can even just, you can even just fold some pieces of paper up and clip them in there. And, uh, so finally when I had a little extra money, I ordered one, and it took like three weeks to get here. And, um, I was gonna get, I was gonna look through all the colors, uh, and pick something unusual, but it just, you know, black and orange just already matched everything I already had. And I, and I'm pretty sure, Myke, you have a black and orange one, right?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh, green and orange. Green and orange, right? I, I have what they call the dance floor material, which is like a, it's like a linoleum.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' How, is it as flexible as leather? Like, do you like it?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, yeah, I, I love it. I actually prefer it to leather because it's different. It's just this weird kind of rubbery texture and it's bright green and I have orange felt inside.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' Yeah. Um, but you, something you said about it, I think, uh, turns out to be true, which is you, you just, once you have it in your possession, you just find ways to use it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And that's the thing about it. Cause it's so like extensible, like they, you, you basically get pretty much, well, one, you choose how you want it made. And we'll talk about it in a moment. Cause I want to know why you picked the configuration that you did, but then you can kind of put what you want in it. So you've got these clips, which you can put notebooks into, but you can, as you say, you can also clip other pieces of paper into it. I got the little plastic, clear plastic wallets that it comes with. So I can sort of slide things in there. And then I clip, uh, field notes, arts and sciences, which I can see that you do too. But Rotofarden makes some great notebooks that you can get, but you could basically clip any notebook in there as long as it fits.

'''J. Robert Lennon:''' I bought that, um, that crazy notebook they make. That's got, uh, music staves on one side and something else on the other. It's just some, some bizarre combination. I can't remember what's on the other side, dot grid maybe. Sure. Why not? But, but they're really, they're beautifully made in this. The sewn binding is exposed. So, um, it's, uh, it just feels like a, it feels like a quality handmade artifact, like everything that it came with. So I, I think it's just a beautiful item.