Scriveiner's Journal

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 ...

What ink colour says about how you think

Most people settle on a colour early and stay with it for years. Black for everything official. Blue because that is what was in the pen at school. Red, occasionally, and only for marking. The choi...

The attention economy and the case for slow writing

 On reclaiming focus in a world designed to amuse and built to abuse. 

Bullet Journaling: A Tool to Heal Your Attention Span

What is bullet journaling? Bullet journaling is an analogue organisation system created by designer Ryder Carroll and published in full in his 2018 book The Bullet Journal Method. A notebook-based ...