Pen and Notes?

[endtheleftwing]

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Hello,

What pens do you guys believe to be the best for you when doing paperwork, lecture notes, etc? These pens can be fountain pens, gel pens, etc.

 

[endtheleftwing]

For me, a fine nib on any fountain pen will do fine. Preference: Pilot Metropolitan

 

[Awesome Sauceome]

I am a lefty so finding a really solid pen is hard. It has to have good flow (since we "push" on the paper rather than pull). But it has to have a thin enough tip or good enough ink so that it doesn't smear. It also has to be cheap heh. Here are 3 suggestions:

Pentel energel needle tip. These are awesome but they are like $3.50 a pop.

Uniball signo 207 micro. This one is probably the worst of the 3 but I know some people swear by them. it is kinda of scratchy which sucks but i get the feel like it would be better as a righty.

Then I recently found the uniball jet stream (0.38mm) on Amazon for like 5/$10 which is awesome. I really like these pens, these are what I am gonna be using.

 

[endtheleftwing]

uniball jet stream

Cool! I might pick that up, as well as the Uniball Signo 207. A pack of 12 for $14 is a steal

 

[Awesome Sauceome]

Cool! I might pick that up, as well as the Uniball Signo 207. A pack of 12 for $14 is a steal

Yea I bet if you were a righty then these would be awesome pens. They just seem to get the feel of getting clogged/caught as I write. But that is probably because of the micro point and because as I mentioned: pushing against the paper. So it'l probably be solid for you.

 

[Awesome Sauceome]

But honestly now the real question is whether or not it is worth using a pen and paper at all in school haha. I think I am going to try and be all electronic; but that's going to be hard coming from doing all hand written notes in UG.

 

[fingerscrossedpremed]

But honestly now the real question is whether or not it is worth using a pen and paper at all in school haha. I think I am going to try and be all electronic; but that's going to be hard coming from doing all hand written notes in UG.

Agreed. Physically writing things out helps a lot for retention though. I just bought a surface pro 3 for my first year, and it's a great combination. Organization is easy because of onenote and other software apps, but you can still get the added benefit of writing your notes out.

 

[endtheleftwing]

OneNote seems like heaven for many users. Maybe I should take a look at it!

>tips fedora