This week theme: Are you an addict to stationery?

Are you a beginner, or are you considering if you should start a journal? Ask all your questions here. Are you more experienced? Feel free to share tips, tricks, pictures of your journal, anecdotes. Anything else related to journaling is welcome in this weekly thread, don’t hesitate.

Edit: I forgot to welcome new subscribers. Like, really what was I even thinking?
So—let’s all pretend I did not forget—welcome!

  • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    Indeed, I really did enjoy classes of that teacher!

    And I can get behind that! Someone mocking you means you are doing something that interests them ;)

    And that is a very interesting system you have for archiving, I don’t think I’ve seen someone ever archive important notes to a secondary place - smart and cool! Colors are important to me as well, they give some character to the notes, makes them nicer to look at and read.

    And yeah Lemmy has sealed the death of reddit ;) Don’t even notice the difference with activity! (I’m mostly on subscribed view but decided to peek /all and found your post!).

    I was about to say: there is too much going on

    I understand this, it’s true and can’t always stay and work on notes. But not every note needs to be perfect!

    I also tried using those cheap camera-like portable thermal printers …

    Mind sharing which one? Its not a thermal printer but sticking instant photos to notes reminded me of the time I thought about those Fujitsu instax cameras to quickly print images and sticking the small pic on a note. But didn’t go through with this since the photo-paper is quite expensive.

    • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      Mind sharing which one?

      It’s some no brand models (I purchased two, one a dedicated BT printer to pair with my phone, the other is a full camera with a similar thermal printer but no BT pairing) I got on Aliexpress, I think it was there. One is a bright green dinosaur of some sort and the other one is a pink/bright squarish box with pink cat ears because, of course, it has ears and why go serious when you can not go serious at all? ;)

      The BT printer one works fine with the iPhone (I just had to manually find the correct app through trial and errors because the link provided in the doc did not work). Unsurprisingly, the dedicated camera one (which does not work as a BT printer for a phone, sadly) is really crappy but still good fun and I think it would be hit for any kid or teen using one with their friends.Also, the camera one was supposed to come with a SD card… It does, it was one of those scam ones with close to zero storage (I was aware it would likely happen but better be clear: don’t consider that card a given, even if it’s featured)

      But didn’t go through with this since the photo-paper is quite expensive.

      They certainly do not play in the same league as dedicated serious portable photo printer, hence the serious price difference but that’s also the reason why they can be so fun to use: they’re cheap and the thermal receipt paper is even cheaper (and can be found anywhere at least for now, no idea for how long). Their battery is fine and they print rather quickly. All one needs to please friends without throwing money out of the window.

      • Lazycog@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        11 days ago

        Thanks for the tip! I’ll look into this. Maybe I need to go look for a cat-eared pink camera as well! ;)