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Tools & Stationery

Analogue pleasures, digital tools and finding what actually works.

Recoil

In fact, by design, it's a bit awkward. It doesn't even have a browser. What it does do, is allow you to make lots of notes by hand. A sort of electronic notebook.

Biting the Bullet

For once, I instantly vetoed myself from buying more stuff "to be more minimalist". As it happens, my current daily driver is a Leuchtturm 1917 A5, the same book that is slightly amended to be sold as the Bullet Journal 2024.

Soho. No, not that one.

I bought it for its vertical week to view diary pages, their utility superseding even the telephone number for Cowes Week.

Stopping on the left

Why does my Homepod have some sort of existentialist angst? Or perhaps it's a political statement from a tormented Tim Apple (Cook)?

The Return of the Pocket Notebook

I resolved to make more time to get out and about without a specific reason and this, in turn, has led to a revival of my pocket notebook use.

The Forde MoneyChanger

This was 1988, not the middle-ages. There were computers in the business, in the head office. Not for me, though, I worked on the counters.

Hannah-Time!

Does it need to be in leather outer with specialised inserts? Of course not. Any notebook would do. The tool enhances the ritual.

Still Teching

This German company makes machines in Germany specifically for Linux, and even has an in-house flavour of the operating system, designed to be accessible to people who think that the command line is some sort of military term.
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