Multicolor pens are more publicly acceptable than multicolor
pencils today. New styles and ink formulas are still being developed. They are
great for taking notes and emphasizing certain words or lines with different colors
of writing, underlining and circling.
The Rotring Quad in the picture got me to switch from
multicolor pencils to multicolor pens in the mid-1990s. It has black, blue and
red pens and a 0.5 mm pencil. I carried it in the Eagle Planner I used then.
The Eagle was and is a modification of the Franklin Planner. It is mainly different in
having die cut pages to let you find specific days quickly. I used the Rotring's colors
to indicate the first, second and third priority items in my To-Do lists and
the key appointments on the daily calendar pages.
When I started pulling it out for fast note taking in
meetings the slight but constant rattling of the different cartridges in the barrel
got annoying. I put it back in the planner’s pen loop and used it for
lists and appointments for years, through several sets of blue and red refills.
Buying the Rotring Quad started me back into using
multicolor pens because it demonstrated that multicolors could look good and
not nerdy. Then the utility of the multiple colors and fine point pencil in a
single tool won me over to other multicolor pens that edged closer to overt
nerdiness. I keep this one in my collection and regularly rotate it into use to
recall the pre-smartphone efficiency of multipurpose pens and multipurpose
planners.
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