Yea though we walk through the valley of digital zombies, not all of the youth are completely lost. This young man makes a good case for paper's continuing existence, and I found this vid lifted my spirits at least a little bit:

HA!!!! That's amazing!

I use the same 3-pack of pocket notebooks from the Dollar Tree. I always have a pocket notebook and pen in my pocket 99.9% of the time.

I no longer wear shirts without pockets. All my shirts, from Tee shirts to dressy shirts, must have a chest pocket. In that pocket I have one of those pocket notebooks and a Zebra F301 ink pen. I buy the Zebras by the 10-pack at Sam's Club, have been for at least 15 years.

I find that setup indispensable. I also use my iPhone to screen capture things I wish to remember for later, the iPhone notes section I use a lot too.

Funny story, about 2 months ago I had dinner with my Neice and her Daughter. Daughter recently graduated from TCU with a dual bachelors RN & Public Health degree. When she noticed the pen in my pocket she got so excited and grabbed her purse and pulled out several of those same pocket notebooks plus a few medium size notebooks and a handful of pens.

She reminded me that at our previous dinner about a year earlier that she'd sort of poked fun of me for that and that it was so old fashioned. Then she said she'd changed her mind and started carrying the notebooks and pens and it has tremendously helped her career and even impressed her bosses with such. Phone batteries can die, phones get damaged and won't work, but you can always use a pen/pencil and paper.

She's about 25 years old now and I'm so glad for her. She reminds me of a lot of what the young man in the video said. I'm going to send her that video.

And, BTW, I was just telling my brother that I LOVE using a #2 lead pencil. As a retired Editor he agreed.
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Originally posted by OKCGene:
Zebra F301 ink pen.

Good man.
Once you get hold of an F701, you'll be even more of a Zebra fan.

Back on topic: I'm down with pen and paper. I've got notebooks and pens all over the house. I'm making an attempt this week to keep the to-do list on the iPad, but it's just easier (so far) to grab a notebook.

^^^^^ Good man you are Sir !!!

I have F701's, they're a bit heavier so I don't like to pocket carry them, but they are all over my desks at home.
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Have you swapped the Fisher refill in yet?

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Originally posted by vthoky:
Have you swapped the Fisher refill in yet?

No, have not even heard of that, do tell please.
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Well, sir!

• Grab yourself a couple of Fisher SPR4F refills.
  
• Twist off the "front end" of your F701.
  
• Remove the original Zebra ink, and keep the spring.
  
• Use a small punch (or a dental pick if you have one) to poke the plastic insert out of the front end (it's a small, almost clear cylinder, barely visible -- poke it out from the business end).
  
• Put the spring on your new Fisher refill, and put your pen back together.
  
• Smile smugly at your F701's superiority over all the pens in your house. Done!
  
  

I've done this with several of my F701s, converting a couple of them for true "redlining" at work.

Enjoy!

Apologies to apprentice for drifting his thread.

I really believe there is something about the wiring in our brains where by putting pen to paper to express thoughts allows time for the brain to process those thoughts and clarify them. Many a time I was writing up a neurology consult and the information obtained by history taking and physical exam and written down on paper scratch notes didn't coalesce in my mind into a coherent picture till I began writing the final assessment.

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Originally posted by Sacramento Johnson:
I really believe there is something about the wiring in our brains where by putting pen to paper to express thoughts allows time for the brain to process those thoughts and clarify them. Many a time I was writing up a neurology consult and the information obtained by history taking and physical exam and written down on paper scratch notes didn't coalesce in my mind into a coherent picture till I began writing the final assessment.

My mom was a teacher. She swore that if we wrote it down/out ten times we would not forget it. She was right.

Since November 30, 2006, I've been writing one page entries in a paper journal where I write highlights of what have transpired and three items for which I am thankful. What started out as a daily ambition has morphed into a reliable weekly endeavor every Friday morning. Entry 356 was done last Friday.

I use a Montblanc fountain pen and a journal notebook from Gallery Leather of Maine. I have several fresh ones on standby. I'm on my second book.

I heard about writing things down for which you are grateful makes you happier than people who do not. I heard it on a radio segment while stuck in stop and go commute traffic two hours and fifteen minutes on the 40 mile drive home.

My entry that day included the following: "I spent most of the day at work trying to persuade people to fix a problem by coming to an agreement. The problem was solved but I did not have a sense of accomplishment - only fatigue from mental exhaustion - like an air traffic controller that narrowly averted an air collision."

Love his comment about CS Lewis. Yes I'm a died-in-the-wool-decades-long fountain pen user. Started in elementary school and never stopped.

Favorites are my Pelikan Sovereign M1000 OBB nib, Waterman Le Man 100 OB and ST nib versions, and an Italix Churchman's Prescriptor with a custom extra broad oblique italic nib.

I agree with many of his points. It was a worthwhile video. Thanks for posting it.

I have gobs of notebooks from my time in ATMs. If I didn't write down exactly what I was doing when I did it I was sure it would be forgotten by the time I went to do my report to close the service ticket.

They were

They're all I used when I was sent to ATM school by NCR. I wrote diagrams, hex code translations for dispensers, all sorts of useful stuff.

I kept a Rite in the Rain pen and pad in my jacket pocket in the cold months and in my cargo pockets the rest of the year.

Nowadays I use my grandfather's Cross pen and a felt insert, but I still keep a few dozen pads nearby. I also tend to keep a straight edge around because you never know when an idea for a design might strike. Last year it was making steel/bronze brazed American flags as Christmas gifts. The year before it was designs on making coasters.

Nobody can hack into pen and paper....

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Originally posted by HRK:
Nobody can hack into pen and paper....

And Google isn't archiving your data for the rest of your life.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Nobody can hack into pen and paper....

When I was teaching,I was never without a notebook. I’d take notes doing meeting or records interactions with students. Patent-teacher meetings had me refer g back to what had happen. I was taught this in the Army and didn’t see it as important.
That is until I was in a meeting with an administrator and parent, when the student was giving a BS story.
The administrator leaned forward and yelled stop that. You know he writes everything down!” End of BS.

Bob Graham, Governor of Florida was known for this. Sure enough we had him on the boat I used to run for a fundraiser. He wrote down everyone’s name and the time and any other note about the interaction. My name and my previous wife’s name are in a notebook somewhere in a cardboard box I’m sure.

I use one daily, all my important notes in one place, for generic, short term notes that is. I have a larger notebook for "medical", and "house", to keep things centralized for those two life buckets (both are currently falling apart, slowly putting humpty dumpty back together again).