Any tips on cards?

[inkypete]

Now that Nock cards are not available (very sad) does anyone know of an alternative of similar quality? I have bought most of the locally available commercial brands and they are nowhere near the quality of Nock. Daiso had some very nice cards surface wise but the recent stock seems to have changed paper grade. Any clues?

[A Smug Dill]

Have you tried these? https://www.jetpens.com/Kokuyo-Information-Index-Cards-7.5-cm-x-12.5-cm-100-Cards/pd/23194

[inkypete]

3 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

Have you tried these? https://www.jetpens.com/Kokuyo-Information-Index-Cards-7.5-cm-x-12.5-cm-100-Cards/pd/23194

Not yet - JetPens list a few options I haven't tried but their shipping can be a killer. I will take a closer look.

[Karmachanic]

Silvine index cards.

[LizB]

For index cards, I like Exacompta.

[Runnin_Ute]

Haven't tried them, but Levenger has some as well. I saw something showing they were on sale (300 pk) in the last day or two. Lined or grid ruling.

[Bo Bo Olson]

 

Yes, good index cards, inks shade on it; those that do.

I wish I knew metric...only 50 years of not knowing it.

I thought A6 was the proper size for  index cards, and ordered it by Amazon....what I needed was A7...

Got inks coming in, so I don't have time to return and reorder.

20 of the hundred cards cut to fit my little gray index card box.

 

I had run out of index cards; the pen, nib width, color of pen....and then what ink is in it.

I started out on index cards as a noobie, never dreaming of needing Excel.

 

Having too many inked pens out (17, down from 30), had gone over to colored rubber bands...blue is blue, green green, red is brown and I've no idea what white is. Burgundy or purple. I really don't need to be more precise than that.

If I continue on with the rubber bands, I need the real tiny ones, to go two colors on the barrel. That gets into precision and a record of such a thing.

Might be easiest to get down to 7 pens, which will never again happen.

 

Or put it all in Excel and flip the computer around every time I wonder what basic color is in a pen....in I seldom need to know exactly what brand and name.

 

I've 6 new un-reviewed inks coming in, and I'm supposed to do F as well as my normal M&B. So that's 12 pens....and back to 29.