Writing instruments
My writing systems
I noticed each of my writing instruments are associated with specific mental and physical processes.
Fountain pen
Characteristics:
- Pleasant to hold and to write with
- Requires an ink bottle and regular refilling
- Needs careful handling, high risk of accidents
Writing style:
- Free associations
- Ideation, mind mapping
- Unidirectional
- Objective unedited reporting
Applications:
- Free associations
- Stories, journal
- Note taking
- Zettelkasten
Ballpoint pen
Characteristics:
- Convenient
- Inexpensive
- Light
- Low risk of accident
Writing style:
- When not near my office
Applications:
- Fountain pen backup
- Convenient substitute for fountain pen on airplanes and when travelling
- Dreams journal (sleepy state when writing)
- Filling out official forms
Mechanical pencil
Characteristics:
- Erasable
- Not dependant on gravitational pull
Writing style:
- Forceful, gestual writing
- Checking boxes
- Crossing out list items
- Conveys temporaryness of the information
Applications:
- GTD
- Task lists
- Mind sweeps
- Checklists
Marker
- Labeling boxes
- Drawing graphic elements for diagrams or tables on paper
China marker
- Kitchen tool
- Writes on metallic and glass surfaces
- Labeling and time stamping food jars
Alexandre de Verteuil
Senior Solutions Architect
I teach people how to see the matrix metrics.
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