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An addendum to my last post:
Please, please feel free to evangelise your favourite type of notebook*, brand of pen, intricately crafted bullet journal method, complex note-taking and revision technique, anything that makes life/study easier for you!
*I probably won't be adopting a new notebook for this semester, but there's always next semester ;)
Please, please feel free to evangelise your favourite type of notebook*, brand of pen, intricately crafted bullet journal method, complex note-taking and revision technique, anything that makes life/study easier for you!
*I probably won't be adopting a new notebook for this semester, but there's always next semester ;)
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They can range from incredibly expensive and fancy to incredibly cheap, much like binder-style planners - the original is simple and leather, the fanciest stuff is complicated and involves a lot of leather with fiddly hand-sewn and -dyed bits, but the function can be replicated with hair ties or rubber bands and cardboard, or by cutting up an old vinyl binder, or made out of a few sheets of laminated cardstock. So the price range and appearance is quite flexible; really the only static part of the system is the cover that wraps around & the elastic bands strung through the spine of it, which are used to hold things inside! Depending on your stationer, they might look like the concept is all leather or all rugged and manly or all twee and metallic gold and pink, or all costs a hundred bucks or something, but those aren't true. (I've gone through a couple of homemade ones and a leather one since I started.)
This is why I hate ball points, but I would probably recommend gel pens in that case. They aren't as smooth as liquid ink (eg rollerball pens, which I loved before I switched to fountain pens - but these have leakage problems like fps as well as bleedthrough problems, and come in fewer colors) but they can come close, they resist drying out much better but dry faster and smear less on the page, they're much cheaper and available in a wide range of colors, etc. There are quite a few Asian gel pen brands that offer a full rainbow of colors. MUJI are popular with bullet-journalers. Gelly Roll are the classics, but a bit more pricey. Pentel and Pilot both offer pretty complete color ranges too, which are available from online pen and stationery stores if not as likely to all be in stock at a local shop.
If you already have a notebook with pretty thin paper, you should probably use just one side of each sheet, yeah. I haven't looked for felt tip specific advice, but I'm sure you can find reviews of Asian and Western notebooks that would let you write on both. FWIW, Clairefontaine & Rhodia are both significantly cheaper than Leuchtthurm and Moleskine, but they're harder to find in North America (which might or might not predict their availability in Australasia).
Also: Stabilo felt tips suck. Staedtler Triplus Fineliners are really fantastic, as many reviews will say (though not artist quality).
The bleed of fountain pens depends on a lot of things, including the paper you're writing on but also the nib, the feed, and the ink in the pen, so you can definitely get a wide range there. I imagine your pen is designed to not bleed much, as that would go along with waterproof ink.
But there is a range in felt tips as well, I'm sure.
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Echo Park is the brand the scrapbook store carries, available in black, teal gingham and pink gingham, at roughly AUD45 for the cover and a notebook (which is comparable in price to a Happy Planner classic discbound).
The cost of getting started is why I decided to get a cheap notebook to start with, figure out how I want to use it, and then commit to a system with more versatile paper for semester 2.
Re: Pens
I've just discovered my local office supply store carries the Uni Style Fit system, so I'm going to pick up a 3 colour one of those (once I choose some colours/nib size/etc, I'm leaning towards black/light blue/purple) and go from there. I'd prefer a rubber grip on the pen, but not having to pay for shipping is a big plus for me. And for taking notes in person I think I want a multi-pen to a collection of individual pens, tempting though that is...
Also I was just tidying up the study and discovered a Uni-ball Jetstream 0.7mm, which allowed me to test their rollerball ink in my notebook! Very smooth and no bleeding through, so that's great.
My existing felt tips are Staedtler Noris Club, so kid quality, but they have a 1mm nib and a 3mm nib, so that's fun.
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I have always enjoyed having a big zipper bag of colored pens that I carry around with me to play with, but usually for serious business and many kinds of note-taking or longhand writing I can't bother to switch pens often, so I can see how the multi-color pen would appeal. When I was a kid they never seemed to work quite right, but modern technology and gel or liquid ink could cover that.
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