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While deployed in the middle east I lost my favorite pen. I don't know the make of it, I bought it at a Christmas holiday booth that had pens along with other things.

It was thin byt heavy. The body was octigonal, below with a textured grip. Same grip was on top with a twist open and close. It was a gun metal in color.

It was a very strudy pen and I have been trying to find ever since.

If this sounds familiar to anyone, please let me know.

Thank You,

Tim

The Pear Tree Pen company has been working on a major overhaul of its website and shopping cart. We are nearly finished, and expect to "go live" sometime during the first week of March.

Glide across the page oh graceful nib
Paint my portrait with words of glib
Wet and lush your midnight ink
Saturating paper with tasty drink
Every letter most sublime
Increased pleasure with each line
Your lacquer finish as smooth as silk
With loving care were you built
A work of art,a tapestry in hand
Crafted elegance of style grand
Adorned with sterling silver dreams
In faintest light you beauty gleams
Your rich appointments please the eye
Like baby blue of summer sky
Grip as soft as purest snow
Your golden clip a lambent glow
Page after page of writing pleasure

A Mac application review on a pen website? What's this about?

Well it is called Task"PAPER".

So, what is TaskPaper you ask?

Well it is a very "simple to use" version of software that implements the GTD (Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity) method of task organization and list keeping. Actually, you don't have to "do" GTD to make use of the application but the framework is there.

Here's a screenshot of TaskPaper to give you an idea of the application.

There are a bunch of other GTD applications and other todo applications. So, what makes this one different? Well, simplicity is the big difference. Most other applications maintain their data in a database of some kind. Most other applications often require some setup and some steps to follow to process your tasks. "Click here to create a task, click on this button to process tasks, click here to view history, click here to setup contexts, etc." With TaskPaper you just type. But you ask, what about creating new projects and how does it handle contexts. This is where the brilliance of the interface comes in. For projects you simply type the Project name and follow it with a colon ":". Press return and TaskPaper formats the Project appropriately.

I'm just testing something out.

PENNA MAGAZINE - Pen's Companion

Here's an interesting article on "The pen's faithful companion".

- Mark

Just trying something out to see if I can post this to PenPassion from a program I'm using.