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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-14 at 22:23

Niche poll, please boost for reach and add comments for options not included in the poll:

Which writing implement makes your own #handwriting look best?

Edited to emphasise: HANDWRITING. I thought this was unambiguous.

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Written by Benjamin Geer on 2025-01-14 at 22:28

@xahteiwi Nothing can make my handwriting look good any more, it’s been going downhill since I was 16

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-14 at 22:46

@benjamingeer Note I said "best" which is relative/subjective, not "good" which would be absolute/objective. 😀

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Written by bigjsl on 2025-01-14 at 22:33

@xahteiwi gel pen.

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-14 at 22:41

@bigjsl Right, isn't that just a ballpoint pen with a different kind of ink though?

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Written by Philipp Riederer on 2025-01-15 at 08:18

@xahteiwi @bigjsl IMO a good (easy rolling) gel ballpoint is more than "just a ballpoint". The difference is stark.

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Written by Programmer 832-529 🍅 on 2025-01-14 at 22:41

@xahteiwi Invisible Ink makes my handwriting look best.

I get told am I/should be a doctor a lot.

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Written by Matthew Booth on 2025-01-14 at 22:54

@xahteiwi A keyboard

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-14 at 22:56

@mattb Yellow card, off you go.

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Written by Kris on 2025-01-15 at 07:20

@xahteiwi [x] keyboard

I am faster on a keyboard a lot, I can concentrate better and the result is readable and as a bonus searchable. I make it a point to use keyboards and not use any kind of pen.

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-15 at 07:54

@isotopp I don't know what you wrote this with, but (a) it doesn't address the question and (b) I fail to parse the last sentence.

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Written by Kris on 2025-01-15 at 09:23

@xahteiwi Edited (with a proper keyboard).

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Written by Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 on 2025-01-15 at 09:47

@isotopp @xahteiwi Which, even though it's a tangent, brings me to an "unsolved problem" in my life.

I also type much better on keyboards, but I often want to take notes while mobile. Taking out a wireless keyboard is terrible, swiping/typing on a touch screen isn't great either (and at the very least requires clean up later).

It's he last scenario where I occasionally still carry paper & pencil.

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Written by Henryk Plötz on 2025-01-15 at 09:53

@larsmb @isotopp Those were the days. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HTC_Desire_Z_-_with_keyboard_open.jpeg#mw-jump-to-license

(Though also my eyesight was better then, allowing me to actually read on the tiny screen.)

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Written by Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 on 2025-01-15 at 09:56

@henryk @isotopp Yes, mobile entry is basically impossible without looking at the screen these days.

(Though, hm, I guess a "full screen ''keyboard''" that accepts global gestures might possibly ...? Something to look into.)

I guess most people would now use "voice notes", which alas suck when taking meeting notes etc. The promised subvocalization from sci-fi is still missing.

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Written by darix on 2025-01-15 at 11:36

@larsmb @henryk @isotopp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVzi4fDzxq0

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Written by Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 on 2025-01-15 at 15:06

@darix @henryk @isotopp Okay, 100 out of 10.

Would be even better if it was one handed.

(I know about the device, but this application is new. Also, I wonder how well this deals with aging joints ...)

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Written by Harald Wagener on 2025-01-15 at 16:14

@larsmb https://www.mytwiddler.com/ @darix @henryk @isotopp

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Written by Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 on 2025-01-15 at 16:28

@oliof Oy, that looks hot.

Do you have experience with it?

@darix @henryk @isotopp

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Written by Harald Wagener on 2025-01-15 at 21:45

@larsmb I used an older version for a while and it is pretty nifty, but I didnt use it regularily enough to become really fluent with it @darix @henryk @isotopp

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Written by Andreas Scherbaum on 2025-01-15 at 07:22

@xahteiwi [X] anything digital where I don't have to write, but type. Aka: keyboard.

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Written by Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 on 2025-01-15 at 08:46

@xahteiwi Pencil, not soft though, but Druckbleistift.

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-15 at 11:14

@larsmb Interesting; I use a mechanical pencil too but I make a point of using soft (B grade) leads.

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Written by Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 on 2025-01-15 at 12:04

@xahteiwi I'm a HB(/F/H) person.

But I also almost never "draw" anything except a few lines, and my handwriting is "messy", and still influenced by the years of using Palm Pilot glyphs, so I write block letters rather than cursive if I want to have any chance of reading my own notes.

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Written by Marianne Spiller on 2025-01-15 at 10:40

@xahteiwi Fountain pen EF combined with Diamine ink. Yes, I tried a lot 😇

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-15 at 11:22

@netzwerkgoettin "EF" as in "extra fine", or does this stand for something else?

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Written by Marianne Spiller on 2025-01-15 at 12:06

@xahteiwi Nope, „extra fine“ it is.

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Written by Martin Seeger on 2025-01-15 at 10:49

@xahteiwi Keyboard - I cannot produce readable output by hand in acceptable time.

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-15 at 11:21

@masek You did notice that I wrote "handwriting" and that I chose the word "best", rather than "good"?

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Written by Martin Seeger on 2025-01-15 at 19:35

@xahteiwi Yes, but best is not a word I would apply to any kind of handwriting of mine. It is like asking, which pile of poop smells best. I will not select any pile on that question.

I was missing a „Doesn’t Matter“ (or similar) option.

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-15 at 19:55

@masek Inspired by the "keyboard" crowd, I have added item #6 to my pinned toot on my other account.

https://fedifreu.de/@xahteiwi/113367839832351956

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Written by leyrer on 2025-01-15 at 11:23

@xahteiwi [x] Typewriter

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Written by Jeff MacKinnon on 2025-01-15 at 15:30

@xahteiwi I voted ballpoint, but that is the tool that I have the most experience with. I have never used a brush pen, and I never graduated past "beginner" fountain.

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-15 at 15:33

@Jeff If you're curious to try out a brush pen, Tombow Fudenosuke is your gateway drug. :)

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Written by EinPinsel on 2025-01-15 at 17:52

@xahteiwi after quite some time I rediscovered writing notes and thoughts. Getting a fountain pen and then some ink was the reason to stick with it. And that’s how my writing improved

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Written by Kit Bashir on 2025-01-16 at 08:00

@xahteiwi left handed here. I love the IDEA of fountain pens but they don’t work for lefties.

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-16 at 08:03

@Unixbigot Oh I'm sure they do, just as long as you write Arabic or Hebrew. 🙂

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Written by Kit Bashir on 2025-01-16 at 08:03

@xahteiwi :)

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Written by Florian Haas on 2025-01-16 at 08:35

@Unixbigot Come to think of it this raises two interesting questions:

  1. Has anyone in the last 30ish years come up with fast-drying ink, making fountain pen writing more suitable to lefties?

  1. Is there, or has there historically been, a greater prevalence of left-handedness in world regions where RTL writing systems were devised? (maybe @yaakov might know?)

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