What fps are you using in your planners?

[dragondazd]

I'm very excited about using my new hobonichi Cousin which is replacing a kokuyo jibun techo this year. What pens+nibs and inks are you all using? 

 

In the kokuyo I mostly used a platinum prefounte in F with whatever ink but mainly I used zebra sarasa gel pens--pretty, but you know... I'd like to use more fountain pens next year and request some inspiration.

[JulieParadise]

In my Hightide Les Agendas de L'Année planner (www.hightide-online.jp/c/diary/weekly/natype/item-23na4) I use a Pilot Décimo with an extra fine nib and J. Herbin Perle noire. As of now (the planner began with September 26th and I am using it since) I am quite happy.

[christam]

I've got 20 pens inked (yes it's a lot but it works for me 😊) and use 18 of them in my Hobos, both A5 and A6.  The two exceptions are the Montblanc BB and OBB nibs which give too broad a line.  My "finest" nibs are M, the rest are B and 1.1mm stubs.  Most of the inks I use are Iroshizuko, De Atramentis and Diamine but one pen is permanently inked with Edelstein Aventurine.

 

This probably hasn't been much help but basically anything seems to work with a Hobonichi.

[OregonJim]

I tend to use anything that's inked up in my Franklin Quest classic-sized planner (original 2 page per day refill).

 

Right now, it's a Cross ATX medium nib with J. Herbin Bleu Nuit ink.

[dragondazd]

I think my main issue was I tried to mark down recurring meetings over multiple weeks and I had to wait a while for the inks to dry.

[OregonJim]

4 minutes ago, dragondazd said:

I think my main issue was I tried to mark down recurring meetings over multiple weeks and I had to wait a while for the inks to dry.

 

I tend to use an FP mainly for daily notes.  For recurring events (writing on multiple pages), I have a cup full of Pilot Precise V5's in various colors as I like to color code my events and appointments, and a pencil if those items are at all tentative.

  

[Runnin_Ute]

On 10/26/2022 at 10:47 AM, OregonJim said:

I tend to use anything that's inked up in my Franklin Quest classic-sized planner (original 2 page per day refill).

 

Right now, it's a Cross ATX medium nib with J. Herbin Bleu Nuit ink.

That's me too. It was Franklin Institute (then Franklin Quest, now Franklin Covey) when I got my first one (January 1986) and I am sill using it and have all those pages still. The filler I have been using for the last decade plus is the Monticello one. Mostly EF-M, but sometimes B, OB and stub nibs.

[kenspens]

These days I'm mainly planning and scheduling (checklists and bullets) in a Hobonichi Techo.  Fp's used: several early Pelikan 400's and 140's in EF nibs, a Waterman Gentleman EF, a Lami Safari EF, a Pilot Vanishing Point F, and a Waterman LeMan 100 F.  The F's blot a bit more than the EFs, except that the Waterman EF is harder to write with cleanly than the Pelikans and the Lamy.  I'd like to see some sort of improvement for ink flow with a Zebra FB - cheepest thing that can accept cartridges, but a very good writer when flowing well, and I'd love to find a converter which fits.

 

I use a Moleskine Professional A5 (?) or a Stalogy B5 notebook for outlining and drafting creative and analytical work.  Jetpen has a book lined with 2 or 3 mm squares, which would be great for flow charts and other technogy diagramming.

[gone]

I use a pencil. Things change too often and it just gets messy if I can't erase. 
 

My current favourite pencil is an old Parker 45 flighter, but I usually have a few on hand including some loaded with red and blue coloured leads which erase well enough. 

[Penguincollector]

   All of them. I use whatever inked pen takes my fancy in the morning before I go downstairs to make a latte. Today it was a very.narrow semiflex Platinum PK-1000. 

[amberleadavis]

I am currently using a TUL set of pages and they are not as well organized as my Franklin Covey or my Daytimer pages, but the paper is much better.  I may go back to printing my own. 

 

I use any pen that has ink on my planner pages.  My journals were made by @GatzBcn and those were made with Tomoe River Paper.

[PithyProlix]

When I'm not at my desk one of my front pants pockets often carries a blue Pilot Custom 98 (EF nib), attached to a Midori Grain memo pad + a 3rd-party leather cover by an added stick-on elastic loop. Which is sorta interesting since I have oodles of Japanese pocket pens that would be great for the same purpose. The Custom 98 just seems to be a bit tougher ... and it has proven to be quite tough. The snap cap has stayed on the pen firmly and I've also never had a hard start with the pen. The portability of the whole thing means it gets used a lot. (Because automatic alarms/reminders have been very useful for me, scheduling is done mostly via Google Calendar and tasks that need to be more than a few days in the future via Google Tasks, i.e. not on paper.) It has been inked with Diamine Blueberry because it works well with this pen & paper, I'm too lazy to clean out the pen before refilling, and it's a soft, attractive, legible blue 'with a (subtle) difference'.

 

I wonder why Pilot stopped making the Custom 98? Perhaps because they felt their capless fountain pens and/or E95S/current Elite fills the same niche better? If they made a version Custom Heritage-style 98 with flat ends ... man oh man, take my money!

[PithyProlix]

7 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

Today it was a very.narrow semiflex Platinum PK-1000.

 

Some of the nibs on those pens are incredible.

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Some of the nibs on those pens are incredible.

  I bought my first mid century Platinum because it was turquoise, and because I like inlaid nibs. The seller said it was a fine nib, so I was in. When I got it clean and inked, it was like I heard Ariel the Little Mermaid singing “A Whole New World.”  It is the finest, softest nib,  UEF without being stiff. Now I seek out these nibs and it brought me to the Platinum short long pocket pens. 

[Lupine]

Nice question. I enjoyed reading other people's posts. I set myself up with the very thin white Hobonichi weeks 2024 that fits in a leather wallet I bought on Etsy. Once or twice a week I'll have to check my schedule while I'm out of the house,so I wanted something to carry and this solution worked pretty well in 2023. Google calendar was way too tedious with too many settings and so tiny on my phone, and no place for notes and forced decisions about whether or not I wanted reminders and how often the event repeated, and then how to cancel a repeating arrangement I no longer used. Ugh. Why do people prefer that?

 

Well, my set up is small, so I originally chose small/pocket pens with MF/F nibs and quick drying ink in a few colors to carry. Originally, Sailor Progear Slim - a white lame gold fleck version with Iroshizuku Yu-Yake for items that need to pop, along with a Peilikan 200 Cafe Creme using 3Oysters Doldam (a pencil grey color) for everyday items. Then I recently bought the new Kaweco Terrazzo and took a chance on a BB nib using Iroshizuku Shin-Kai and even though there is a short wait for drying time, it's really not too broad and adds a nice variety to my calendar entries. I use a Hobonichi pencil board in the calendar that can help keep the ink from blotting on the opposite page if I have to close up the calendar quickly.

[Lord of Crocodiles]

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What fps are you using in your planners?

 

Montblanc Martelé. Buy once, buy well.

 

[Claes]

>What fps are you using in your planners?

 

Actually: all that I presently have inked, since I

have not yet found the "ultimate" combination

of paper/pen/ink 😞

 

I am still searching, though.

[Particular_Song3539]

I use Traveler's notebook as my planner, with self made insert of Iroful paper
My current rotation of FP are :
Esterbrook Lilac F - R&K sketch ink in purple
Pilot 823 FA - Mita, Hakka

Pilot 912 Neon classic green FA - Van Dieman's Shooting star

I am planning a new rotation team for 2024.

 

[Misfit]

@Particular_Song3539 I haven’t heard of Iroful paper. Is it anything like Tomoe River paper?

[Particular_Song3539]

@Misfit Iroful is a lot thicker than Tomoe River. So I don't have to skip one page because of the see-through.
It is smooth like butter when you touch it, I like that it is white in color.
It shows sheen and shimmer really well. I am ONLY using it and throw all my other papers into the back of the drawers LOL