Skip to main content

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
You probably don't need to be able to read #teeline to tell which item on my to-do list was cleaning (and re-inking) my #FountainPens.
My to-do list. All the entries are written in teeline (which looks like squiggles). All of the ink is Diamine Steel Blue except for one check mark which is in Diamine Wild Strawberry.
#fountainpens #teeline

reshared this

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Jonathan Lamothe
friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Jonathan Lamothe
•
There's also a lesson in there somewhere about how metadata can leak sensitive information. (note: teeline is not cryptographically secure 🙃)

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

So, keeping a #journal in #teeline has had some unexpected benefits for my #ADHD brain beyond my handwriting just being more able to keep up with the rate of my thoughts.

I might blog about this later, but the TL;DR is that the process of transcribing my entries requires me to think deliberately about the meaning of every word I've written.

#ActuallyADHD #FountainPens

#fountainpens #ADHD #journal #actuallyadhd #teeline

reshared this

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
So, I've finally settled on a technique to keep shimmer inks from clogging my #FountainPens and it's working well, but it's not exactly condusive to writing in #teeline which is what I use 90% of the time these days.
#fountainpens #teeline

reshared this

in reply to paradoxmo

Jonathan Lamothe
friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Jonathan Lamothe
•

@paradoxmo I'm currently using a TWSBI Diamond 580. As for the technique, I was basically just making a rookie mistake:

Jonathan Lamothe

2025-04-27 21:50:13

friendica - Link to source

It looks like I wasn't moving the pen enough. As I would keep writing, the shimmer would collect in the feed until it just straight-up clogged. I didn't realize I had to periodically roll the pen around even while I was actively using it. This should have been obvious by the fact that my writing kept getting more and more, well... shimmery before the ink stopped flowing.

I'll try this approach in the future.

Rookie mistake, but in my defense, I didn't even know that shimmer inks were even a thing until late last year.


@paradoxmo

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

#teeline question:

The word "defund" is tricky, as the way I would expect to write it in teeline would be the same as "defend". I know you can sinetines use a vowel indicator to disambiguate in such circumstances, but the indicators for U and E are identical, aren't they?

I'm not sure this is a case where context would necessarily clear it up either.

Thoughts?

#teeline

This website uses cookies. If you continue browsing this website, you agree to the usage of cookies.

⇧