Editing The Pen Addict 211/transcript (section)

== Field Notes Notebooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Um, I like it. It's not pocketable. I don't know. I haven't carried a field notes book in my pocket and I don't know, ages they get thrown in a bag. So I think this is pretty cool. Um, I like the paper a lot. It's nice and smooth. Like Myke said, it's good with a fountain pen. Um, I think this is like a next to my phone at work or, uh, computer at work kind of thing for me or shopping lists. I think that's the two, two top uses for me. But, um, I'm into it. I like it. I know people like, Oh, it doesn't fit in my pocket. I'm out. And I, it doesn't fit in the leather cover I bought. So I'm out, but I like it. I wish that this paper was in the steno pad.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Yeah. That's what makes me, I was, I was thinking about this before the show about the sticker, Myke. And I was saying to myself, well, I think they'll, they'll sell this sticker as a stock item before they'll sell this notebook as a stock item because it completely bastardizes the steno book, right? They're the, essentially this for the same use case. So one of them is going to have to go like either they retire steno and do this. I don't see these living side by side. Like if they made this a stock issue, do you? I don't think they'll make this a stock issue. I don't think so either.

'''Myke Hurley:''' This, it's got too much about it that makes it fun. And if you made this into a stock, you'd have to take away most of the fun elements. So like when they turned, uh, night sky into the, is it pitch black? I think they call it, they took away like the reticle and they took away the holographic kind of solar system on it. So that it just made it real plain and simple. If you took away all of the fun parts of this one, like all of the journalism references and stuff like that, it ends up just being a bigger steno pad. And I don't think that that's really the fun of the edition.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Plus, uh, the steno pad is Jim's favorite. So I, I, I don't know if that's going away. One, one bit of feedback I got on the extension of the cover flap. Um, do you remember, uh, Gabe Bullard did an article on us back, uh, when, um, the, the magazine, uh, Marco Arment's, um, digital magazine, he did an article. Um, he's a journalist by trade. So he says what I, what that does for me is when I'm out and about and I'm standing up, I, I generally don't have anything to rest the notebook on. So that part sticks in my chest and that allows me to get to the bottom line of the page, which I thought was an interesting, like use case. So maybe there's actually a practical reason that it's like that. So just, just the thought certainly made me think, I mean, you know, it's not something that many people would use or I would use or, or see, you know, useful, but, uh, he was like, yeah, it absolutely helps for me to get to the bottom of that page. So pretty cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Anything that helps journalists make sense of this edition, please. Yes. But I, I really like it. I really, really like it a lot. Um, and I'm sometimes I get overexcited and buy extras and wish I didn't buy extras, but this time I'm really happy that I bought extras because I could see myself flying through some of these.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Yeah. So I said, I haven't been buying extras either. And I said last week, I probably wouldn't. I think I'm going to get one more pack of these because I've found myself reaching for it on my desk. It actually works well for some of the reviews. Like I did, um, the Y studio ballpoint review with it the other day. And I was like, Oh, this is really kind of a cool, just a little jot pad for a review format for a couple of pictures because it's, it's, it's pretty. And it looks good in pictures and things like that.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Uh huh. So thumbs up from me.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Mm hmm. Yes. I think thumbs up from, from, from all of us. So, um, speaking of looking pretty in pictures, I was on, uh, I was on the YouTube. Did I look good, Myke? I've only, I haven't watched the whole thing yet. Oh my God.

'''Ed Jelley:''' The eye rolls I do in there. Like when I, when I, so when, when I'm podcasting, you don't get to see me. So when I'm actually talking, I'm, I was like, I was talking to, um, Matt Armstrong. He does a YouTube video series called currently inked where you get someone on talks about the, the pins they currently have inked up. Well, I'm sitting like exactly where I podcast. So as I'm talking to you right now, my hands are in the air, you know, making some kind of movement. My eyeballs are looking all over the room and I forget. I'm actually doing those things. Talking to Matt, except I'm on video. So it looks a little awkward. I was cracking up through the whole thing. Cause my, my facial expressions, especially my eyes were tripping me out.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. It's a video is a different thing. It's a, it's a whole different beast. And I know Ed, we're going to talk, you've been doing some bit more video recently. We'll talk about that in a little bit, but I'm looking forward to watching this. I saw it this morning when I sat down to do the show prep and I haven't gotten the time to look at it, but did you enjoy the video experience overall? Totally. Loved it. Cause I'm always nagging you to do video.

'''Ed Jelley:''' Yeah. I loved it. I would absolutely do it. It's one of the most time consuming things to do though. It's extraordinarily time consuming, you know, just, um, just a plan and edit and all that stuff. If I did it, it would be pretty raw, like no editing type of stuff. That would, that would be the only way I could function it. Like in my, my workflow, as far as, uh, time requirements. So, which I'm okay with, you know, I could, I could swing that. So I'll think about it. Now, Ed's recently posted a video and I'm going to do something so evil. Myke, are you ready?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah.