Scriveiner's Journal

Re-Freshman Year: If We Went Back to School Now, We Would Do This

In this article, we discuss how we would approach academia years if we went back to school knowing what we know now. We support our notion with research and a personal word. And yes, there is indee...

How to Keep a Travel Journal You'll Actually Reread

A photograph shows you where you stood. A travel journal returns you to how it felt to stand there. Most of us photograph a trip and journal almost nothing. The camera roll fills up, the days blur,...

From Millennial Grey to Meaningful Design: On the Return of the Object Worth Keeping

The Grey Years When everything started looking the same. There is a very specific shade of grey that defined the interiors of the 2010s. It was not charcoal, not slate, it was something cooler, fla...

To the Man Who Shaped Your Life: Finding the Right Words This Father's Day

Father's Day is often thought of as a celebration of fathers. In reality, it is a celebration of the people who helped shape us. For some, that person is a father. For others, a grandfather, a step...

A Guide to Personalising a Pen: What to Engrave, What is Best to Leave for the Card?

Disclaimer: Dear customers, we're working tirelessly to make the personalisation service available worldwide. At the moment, we offer pen engraving only for the United Kingdom and the United States...

On consuming and creating: why one without the other leaves nothing behind

For memories to consolidate, they need reflection, connection to existing knowledge, or reinforcement through repetition or emotion. Unfortunately, most content we consume lacks these elements. A ...

Five Laws for a Scriveiner Pen: Why People Choose Scriveiner

There was a time when the humble pen felt either disposable or prohibitively expensive. Mass-produced plastic pens would break or smear, while luxury pens often carried prices that made them almost...

Introducing the Metal Collection: Copper, Bronze, and Gun Metal

There is a very specific type of person most of us have been fortunate enough to know. A father, a grandfather, a teacher, a mentor… A fatherly figure. Someone defined less by what they said than b...

Single-tasking: a pen as the way to regain control over your attention

The average knowledge worker switches between tasks or applications every three minutes and five seconds. That figure comes from Gloria Mark's research at the University of California, Irvine, and ...

The pen as a gift: how to choose a writing instrument for someone else

Most of what we have written about pens assumes you are choosing one for yourself. That changes things considerably. When the pen is yours, you can afford to experiment, like trying a nib size you ...