What's Your Bujo Gear?

[inkstone]

If you haven't been keeping tabs, I recommend checking out the comments in the newbie-friendly resource post. Lots of good ideas and suggestions there!

Today, I thought it'd be fun to share our essential bujo gear. Maybe it's something basic like your bullet journal and a ballpoint pen. Or maybe it's something fancy like this amazing stamp and sticker set you have.

Whatever it is, leave a comment with a photo and/or a simple list of items. Consider this your introduction to the community and each other. Go!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Link broke?

[inkstone]

Oh thanks! Looks like I messed up C&Ping the link.

[inkstone]

What's in the pic:
- a dot grid hardcover Moleskine
- the full set of Zebra Mildliners (I only use these when setting up spreads so I don't actually carry them around with me everywhere)
- Uni-ball Jetstream ballpoint pen

[yhlee]

Tell me more about the Zebra Mildliners!

(I love colors)

[yhlee]

In the pic:
- lined Moleskine cahier (although I'm considering transitioning to a dot-grid Leuchtturm because I think it will make my life easier when making spreads)
- Aurora Optima 75th Anniversary fountain pen loaded with Robert Oster Astorquiza Rot (red) ink, Aurora Optima blue chrome fountain pen loaded with Robert Oster School Blue ink

I'm already a fountain pen user and I like to match ink color to pen color. I basically use red ink for headers and emphasis, blue ink for everything else. But to be honest, red and blue ballpoint/gel/rollerballs would work just as well.

[inkstone]

They're basically a Japanese highlighter/marker set. They have two ends: a highlighter style end and a fine-point marker style end. I love them because they're colorful and they don't bleed through paper like a lot of highlighters and American-brand markers. I don't mind shadows through pages because it makes me feel like the journal is being used and well-loved, but I can't stand ink bleed.

[yhlee]

Nice! I hate bleedthrough too.

[type_wild]

I think I halfway started bujoing to finally use a number of empty diary-type notebooks I've been gifted back in middle school, hence the funky cover *g* pictured is just my normal office supplies; I use fineliners a lot in taking notes etc., but they bleed through the paper of this particular journal, so I had to dig out most of my old gel pens - half of which don't work, go figure. (not pictured: my colouring pencils)

[yhlee]

Awesome! All those pens. *_____*

[isis]

The lighting when I took this photo was not so good, but the pens (simple ballpoint) are all different colors: black, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, turquoise, green.

The journal is lined rather than dot grid, but it's what I had. Also, pretty.

[kiki_miserychic]

My bare essentials for my home bullet journal are black cardstock (from a paper warehouse) and a white gelly roll pen.

[kiki_miserychic]

Ohh, pretty highlighters.

[kiki_miserychic]

I have cashiers notebooks for vidding notes. Love them.

And those pens are gorgeous.

[yhlee]

I am polynotebookorous (okay, I love ALL THE NOTEBOOKS) but cahiers are so great.

And thank you! They're reliable writers and pretty, always a winning combination. *g*

[yhlee]

Your journal is so lovely. =)

[yhlee]

Oooooooh. =)

[spindizzy]

Yours pens are absolutely gorgeous! *_*

[yhlee]

Thank you!

[dozing_dreams]

An A5 5mm grid Apica CD Premium notebook, four kakuno fountain pens which get inked up from an ever-expanding collection, a parallel for making calligraphy-esque headings and titles, and about a third of my washi tape and sticker collection!

I use the thinner(3mm and 6mm) washi tape to segment out sections instead of ruling them out bc I have shaky hands and the rainbow washis to line page edges according to the importance of the spread and its subject. I use the stickers to paste anywhere that looks lonely, and most of them are planner stickers so they either encourage me or help me to write down to-dos or record stuff that happened. The clock is a little brass clip-on bookmark, and the cover is a Midori MD A5 plastic cover.

It feels like this is a lot, but I mostly make endless lists of things inside the bujo, in horrible spider handwriting.

[yhlee]

I covet your washi tape. =) I've been using washi tape in a writing revisions note journal and really liking it--I too have shaky hands, and the thicker tape "lines" are easier for me to see.

Where do you like to get stickers and washi tape?

[eleanorjane]

I don't have all my stuff handy right now, but for my work notebook I'm using:

* Moleskine large grid notebook - I have liked grid better than dot grid so far, but I'm thinking about switching up to the extra large for the extra space. (It lives on my desk at work so the lack of portability isn't an issue.) The other notebook I'm eyeing off is the Delfonics Rollbahn. Mmmm.

* A really nice black ballpoint pen - I know everyone seems to use fineliners but for basic writing I much prefer a good ballpoint. Normally I'm a fountain pen junkie, but Moleskine paper isn't fountain-pen-friendly, at least not for Lamy inks. (Except in the cahiers - weirdly my gaming notebook cahiers seem to stand up to ink bleed much better than the classic Moleskine books.)

* Coloured Triplus Fineliners for emphasis, graphics and highlighting. I have about 30-40 of these in different colours.

* A looooooot of washi tape. :) I'll post pics when I can; a lot of it's at work.

[eleanorjane]

Lovely!

Also, InkJoy pens are so nice to use IMO. Good choice. :)

[dozing_dreams]

They're from the MT Tape Slim collections (http://mt-tape.us/collections/boxed-sets for the sets for the US) and I get the stickers from resellers at a local online marketplace! They're much cheaper there for me ($3 vs $10) because they're either straight from the factories or are full of small defects that rendered them unsaleable.

I know that cute sets can be gotten from alibaba on the cheap? Some I picked up from Daiso, and a huge amount are Korean diary stickers with character sets.

Washi tape really helped with filling up empty spaces to get over the feeling that I was 'wasting' perfectly good page space, and now every time there's a new collection from MT I just putt around it... waiting... watching... free local shipping...

[yhlee]

Cool, thanks! I didn't even know cheap defect stickers was a thing. That's awesome. :D

The next time I manage to make it over to Korea I am so buying more stickers. That, or maybe I should drop a hint to my mom...(My mom compulsively sends me care packages. I can sometimes influence the contents of the packages but not the fact of there being a constant stream of them...)

[yhlee]

Yeah, I'm using a Moleskine cahier for my bullet journal and my fountain pens are doing fine on it. But I've had trouble with non-cahier Moleskines so that's definitely a thing. What are your favorite ballpoints? There are so many people on Fountain Pen Network who malign ballpoints but I personally rather like them. They're just different. :)

Man, if I did the Midori bullet journal thing with a coloring book insert, I would so be tempted to have colored fineliners to do coloring sheets for relaxation. Your collection is very impressive! I love the Midori for novel-writing notes, but for a bullet journal it's just too damn small for me.