Let's take a pen poll! Here are some of the pens I use in my Filofax. As you can tell by the ink level, the Pilot G2 (.38 mm) is my everyday favorite. I like to use different colors to highlight things like holidays, special occasions, and weather.
As always on Friday, feel free to discuss anything related to ring-bound organizers!
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ReplyDeletePilot G2, or Mitsubishi One (both 0.38)in Big Idea Design pens (because they are adjustable and can take different refill formats)
OHTO needlepoint ballpoints in any Parker compatible pen
Sailor FP with the 21k XXF nib
Pilot Capless FP with Japanese XF import nib
Titanium "Lamy Safari" import with a 14k Lamy xf nib
Hongdian C1 with XF nib
I am currently using Diamine ink exclusively in the fountain pens. I like Grey and Washable Blue a lot because they tend to perform well without feathering or bleed even on the worst Filofax paper.
If I am at home though my favorite combination is a vintage Josiah Mason dip pen nib with Windsor and Newton India Ink, which will write perfectly on any paper and it's fully permanent.
Does anyone else use different pens for different organiser formats? For me it is very important to scale the line width in proportion to the page size.
ReplyDeleteFor Personal or pocket this means a 0.38 nib usually in blue black because it lays down a finer line or Japanese / Chinese xxf/xf fountain pen because they are finer than the Western equivalents.
For A5 it has to be a 0.5 rollerball or gel and western XF nib. Generally speaking.
Or am I just weird!
In my The Bridge A5 organiser I use a Parker Flight 45 propelling pencil with a .5mm lead and a matching ball point pen (a 21st birthday present from my sister) with a roller ball fine blue refill. It has a pearly button on top which I half melted when I used the pen to straighten the wick of the candle I was working by during the miners’ strike!
ReplyDeleteIn my personal organiser I have a double ended ball point pen with a turned wood barrel. It has mini refills at both ends, blue and red, I used it for essay editing at Uni many years ago. The red end is now redundant, how I wish there was such a thing as a mini mechanical pencil to replace it with for sketching. Until then I’m looking for a refill with grey ink instead.
I use a variety of pens in my Filofaxes: either a Montblanc 164 or some old Parker pens (old Premier, Sonnet, 51 bp, etc.), Lamy (cp1), or Caran d'Ache (849 or ecridor). I gave up on fountain pens after realizing that Filofax paper was, and still seems to be, designed for ballpoint pens. I've never really liked gel pens; they're too slippery for me. Very rarely do I feel tempted to use a mechanical pencil.
ReplyDeleteIn my personal Sherwood organiser, I have two pen loops that hold a Parker Jotter (blue ink) and a 0.5 mm Pentel P205 mechanical pencil for on-the-go use. At home, I use erasable Pilot Frixion Clicker 0.7 pens, with red for notable dates such as birthdays and anniversaries, and blue for recurring events. I also use a 0.5 mm Uni-ball Kuru Toga M5-1017 Self-Sharpening Mechanical Pencil for one-off appointments and my financial sheets.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the above, I use Staedtler highlighters: Pink (Bank Holidays), yellow (regular workday holidays), orange (non-workday holidays), green (Sick days), and Blue (Flexitime days off).
DeleteI'm into Jetstreams right now from uni ball. I also bought a pack of 3 uni ball erasable pens as they were selling them off cheaply at a closing WHSmith store. I had frixions but IMHO they are pretty poor. These uni ball erasable pens are better but in prefer Jetstrea clickers.
ReplyDeleteI have a a Zebra Delguard, bought because they have a good reputation for those with heavy hands. I kept breaking my 0.7mm mechanical pencils in the past. I probably snapped half the length of each lead. The delguard works well.