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floobydust:
I use that engineering paper, and if I can't find it I have an Excel spreadsheet that prints a faint grid on printer paper with my name and use that. It's thicker paper and can take erasing.
Engineering clubs at university usually sell Eng paper for fundraising. I haven't seen the green stuff for sale in any store, who really buys drafting supplies nowadays.

I have a dozen mechanical pencils and the best are knurled shanks Alvin DM05, Rotring 600. But drop one and the love affair is over, it's dead  :'(  Pentel 207 is a low cost workhorse.
Pentel ZE22 /Berol QE-103 mechanical erasers are a great match with the pencils. They seem to be long obsoleted.

Traveling on an airplane, the only way to do circuit design and a little math is with a pencil. A laptop is so much hassle and limited.
Ed.Kloonk:
Ink Joy
dnwheeler:

--- Quote from: NANDBlog on August 26, 2020, 09:11:57 pm ---And sometimes Zebra F-301 Compact Ballpoint


--- End quote ---

I concur. The Zebra F-301 is the best general purpose ballpoint pen I've found in a long time. I use the standard (non-compact) version.
ajb:
I've found I do much better with pen and paper when it comes to taking and keeping notes and todo lists.  I get SUPER picky about these things, but have found a system I like.

Notebook: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BBNNSTU/

It's big enough to hold the essentials but small enough that I can't go overboard stuffing it with supplies.  The cool thing is the binding can be opened, so you can rearrange the pages, or add a custom combination of page types, or just remove full pages for archival.  You can buy refills with the same openable binding, but the combs are a bit small.  I use the pages out of these notebooks just because they're more economical: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BBNNSTU/ 

I added the covers from one of them to the notebook so that I always have a solid surface to write against instead of the fabric cover.  I keep lined pages in the front for to-do lists, grid paper in the middle for general sketching/notes, and more lined paper in the back for journal-type entries.  Being able to rearrange pages is really nice and makes this system work quite well for me.

I keep a pen and pencil (both Rotring 800) in the outside pen pockets, and the flap top has a clickable eraser, one highlighter, and a couple of extra pens and markers.  I keep a small ruler, triangle, eraser shield, and some post-it flags as well.  The Rotring 800s are very nice all-metal construction, and the entire tip of the mechanical pencil retracts to keep it and the notebook safe from damage.  They often go on sale on Amazon for ~$25, which is still expensive, but much more palatable than their normal $60 price tag.  Still need to get a better refill for the pen, the stock one is ok but not amazing.  Here's the contents:



Eraser: Uni E-Knock(Discontinued?  :'( )
Backup pencil: Uni Shift Pipe Lock Retractable mechanical pencil
Backup pen: Zebra Sarasa Grand with Signo refill
Alt color pen: Pilot G-2 Red
Generic highlighter
Sharpies
Eraser Shield
3" 45/90 triangle
6" Machinists scale
Post-it flags.

I'll probably eliminate the sharpies since I always have them around anyway, and I'd like to replace the ruler and triangle with nice plastic ones that will be less hard on the notebook, just haven't found ones I like yet.

Just to prove it all fits nicely:


Edit: So we have the "expandable thumbnail in message" options for attachments now, but they don't work?
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