Felt-tip pens and rollerball pens (because they use liquid ink) can cause showthrough problems with some papers - not to the extent of fountain pens but still.
The most popular bullet journal makers, Leuchtthurm and Moleskine, besides being overpriced, are both a bit unfortunate this way - papers that don't stand up well even to felt-tips. Just... not great paper quality, particularly in light of price, although with gel and ballpoint ink and pencil it shouldn't be an issue.
There's a huge variety of paper that's fine for felt-tips but not quite tough enough for fountain pen use, though. You could probably google it. Because I use fountain pens, I mostly use Rhodia and Clairefontaine paper - both owned by Clairefontaine actually, but the latter a little denser than the former. There are Asian papers and notebooks that are easier to get in North America than here, though, that I haven't tried.
I'm also very attached to the so-called "Traveler's Notebook" system (sometimes referred to as Midori, the brand name of the Japanese leather notebook cover that started the recent fad) since I switched to it after six months or so of bullet journaling - basically it's a cover that holds multiple thinner notebooks inside, usually with the aid of elastic bands, so in that sense a bit like the idea of a Trapper Keeper (or any large binder with internal folders/subject dividers), although there are all kinds of Aesthetic and also practical facets to the movement/market (pockets, folders, etc).
For my purposes, it's a sweet spot in flexibility between a single notebook and a binder where you can individually place each page. The discrete notebooks can be swapped out and saved afterwards easily, but carried around together. Also since the outer cover protects the contents, the inside notebooks are soft/staplebound but don't get as banged up as these smaller notebooks often do, and that makes them fairly cheap and easy to make so there are many small custom makers doing different things with them out there, if you have particular preferences and desires about design, paper, layout, etc. For my purposes, it's much easier and cheaper to get staple-bound composition book style notebooks of fountain pen-friendly high quality paper.
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Date: 2019-02-02 02:22 pm (UTC)The most popular bullet journal makers, Leuchtthurm and Moleskine, besides being overpriced, are both a bit unfortunate this way - papers that don't stand up well even to felt-tips. Just... not great paper quality, particularly in light of price, although with gel and ballpoint ink and pencil it shouldn't be an issue.
There's a huge variety of paper that's fine for felt-tips but not quite tough enough for fountain pen use, though. You could probably google it. Because I use fountain pens, I mostly use Rhodia and Clairefontaine paper - both owned by Clairefontaine actually, but the latter a little denser than the former. There are Asian papers and notebooks that are easier to get in North America than here, though, that I haven't tried.
I'm also very attached to the so-called "Traveler's Notebook" system (sometimes referred to as Midori, the brand name of the Japanese leather notebook cover that started the recent fad) since I switched to it after six months or so of bullet journaling - basically it's a cover that holds multiple thinner notebooks inside, usually with the aid of elastic bands, so in that sense a bit like the idea of a Trapper Keeper (or any large binder with internal folders/subject dividers), although there are all kinds of Aesthetic and also practical facets to the movement/market (pockets, folders, etc).
For my purposes, it's a sweet spot in flexibility between a single notebook and a binder where you can individually place each page. The discrete notebooks can be swapped out and saved afterwards easily, but carried around together. Also since the outer cover protects the contents, the inside notebooks are soft/staplebound but don't get as banged up as these smaller notebooks often do, and that makes them fairly cheap and easy to make so there are many small custom makers doing different things with them out there, if you have particular preferences and desires about design, paper, layout, etc. For my purposes, it's much easier and cheaper to get staple-bound composition book style notebooks of fountain pen-friendly high quality paper.