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[flamebyrd]

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 ;)

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[lilymaid]

cimorene's comment about liquid ink-friendly paper and our discussion about Happy Planner/discbound leads to this paper advice that I had to trial and error when I was making DIY Happy Planner inserts.

I have no idea what MAMBI specifies in paper weight for Happy Planner-branded products, but I haven't had problems with felt tips or fountain pens so it has to be pretty heavy. The Clairefontaine notebook I told you that I've used reliably for school for years has 90-gram weight paper. TBH, the #1 reason I went with that brand of notebook had nothing to do with fountain pens; that was a feature I discovered later. I'm left-handed and it became almost impossible to find a top-bound notebook with normal school-type lines. I paid too much for this at a local, now-closed, bookstore and got hooked.

So, if you're looking to make DIY paper inserts for anything and you don't want ink to soak through, look for 90g paper or heavier. US measurements for paper weight are a pain in the ass to understand. I made my DIY inserts out of 28lb paper. 32lb would be far better but it's hard to find.

(Oddly enough, the Clairefontaine catalog indicates they make discbound notebooks but I am exceptionally unclear if they're available anywhere outside of Europe)

[flamebyrd]

Ahh, my spouse is left-handed and has been judging me heavily for my left-binding notebook purchase and interest in fancy pens that smudge instantly when he tries to use them. (But the Uniball Jetstream I just found should be fine!)

It turns out my notebook has 80gsm paper, so it could be worse, but I'd still want 100+ ideally. Officeworks sells 100-125gm plain white paper in A5/A4/A3, so there's that.