Multi Pens for Multi People

[lb_lee]

A few years back, our friend Kate, an art supply maven, gave us one of the most useful multi things ever: two refillable multi pens. The pen bodies look kind of like this, though ours only allow four colors each, rather than five.

Unlike other multi pens, these pens are easily refillable. You can get whatever colors you want (the color refills look like this) and swap them out or change them at will, so you're never stuck with dead or unwanted colors. You can even put in mechanical pencil refills, so they're both pen AND pencils!

Kate gave them to us because they kept seeing us having system meetings, which we journal on paper. With roughly a dozen in the roster, and because we color-code our speakers (Miranda uses black, Gigi green, Sneak pink...) we would always be surrounded by writing utensils. Now, thanks to Kate, we can just use our two multi pens! With eight colors, and fortunately a pretty even divide between lefthanded folks (who almost all have very similar handwriting) and righthanded folks (who all have very DIFFERENT handwriting), each color can get used by one lefty and one righty, meaning our two multi pens can cover up to sixteen different people.

Obviously this wouldn't work for big crews or tiny ones, but it was a huge help for us!

Comments

[stealthsystem]

We adore that idea. It's so cool!
We have people mark their names before writing what they want to say. Like this.
Waverly: Man, I want a waffle.

If it's an action, it's like this. Axel sends a hug to L.

And if the person doesn't know who they are it's ??: like that.

[lb_lee]

Haha awww of course Axel sends a hug to L! And yeah we tag similarly digitally. Mac

[sorcyress]

Oh dannnnng! That actually looks like it would write nicely --my beef with most multicoloured pens is that they're really cheaply made and poor pens, but those cartridges look more substantial!

I mostly just...carry a million pens everywhere anyways, so having specific colours isn't too hard to add. (Gabriel uses blue, ideally a dark blue; Alis red; Hyde purple; Zaphod green; Kat/Sor/I use black)

~Sor

[lb_lee]

Sneak: They do write very nicely! A+ writing experience, totally recommendable! We've had some trouble with purple sometimes being finicky, but that has been with a bunch of pens, not just these. I don't know what it is about purple, but it just doesn't like coming out sometimes!

There are apparently 5-color pens in that brand now, so you could have them all in one pen!