Year in Review: 2023 Stationery Highlights
A post of my stationery highlights of 2023, broken into inks, pens, and accessories.
Whimsy is healing
Academia is not the only field where one is expected to perform seriousness. Whimsy gets a bad rap in quite a few industries. But my stationery habit does not make me bad at my job, and I am prepared to stick a sticker on that hill.
The YosekaLab Planner, Part 2: Vertical Quadrant (Divided)
Earlier this month in the Method and Mayhem series, I wrote about my experiments with the YosekaLab planner’s Gantt layout. Today I am exploring the Vertical Quadrant (divided) on p. 26 of the planner as a tool to track my many, many projects.
The Soft Long Story
I care about story and intricacy, and the pleasure of using an older technology. Writing itself is a very old technology, but it, too, is new in the grand scheme of things.
Method and Mayhem (series)
I am driven by desire and will to produce works that reflect my inner journeys, and I also have a determination to do so using beautiful tools. So far, so good. But how exactly this is accomplished is a bit of a structured mess.