Yonkey Donkey

@zoran.www.yonkeydonkey.blog.ap.brid.gy

This is my digital Midori. 🌉 bridged from https://www.yonkeydonkey.blog/ on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Longform Stories

Hate and love the

Freeloaders that are suprisingly original

2d ago·4 min read·631 words

Why would you use a pencil board?

Especially on thin japanese paper

Jun 1·12 min read·2315 words

You Are Not John Wick

The EDC Trap Of Being Prepared For Nothing

May 30·1 min read·16 words

Making of a Montblanc

Is it hard to make a 1.200€ pen?

May 30·1 min read·20 words

Notebook Ruling

How To Match Nib Width To Linespacing

May 30·6 min read·1077 words

Write Letters

Your Children Will Read To Get To Know You Better

Apr 23·9 min read·1615 words

Quanta Costa Plotter?

Challenging The Pricing Of The Plotter Notebook System

Apr 19·11 min read·2005 words

Rome 44 AD

Like it really happened.

Apr 19·2 min read·278 words

Handwriting Story Generator

URL problem resolved

Apr 19·1 min read·86 words

Rasen in Okinawa

How They Turned Four Voices Into One Signal

Apr 18·9 min read·1764 words

How To Fix Hard Starts

Without Taking Your Fountain-pen Apart

Apr 18·6 min read·1164 words

The Roterfaden Chart List

So you don't mix up your sizes.

Apr 16·1 min read·165 words

Peg and Awl Waxed Canvas Tote Observations

Built for Paper, Not Theater

Apr 16·6 min read·1140 words

Best Crossbody Bags for Pens

And A5 Notebooks That Work

Apr 15·5 min read·957 words

How To Fly With Fountain Pens

But Without Leaks Or Mess

Apr 13·7 min read·1341 words

Traveler's Notebook Card Size Arrived

20th Anniversary

Apr 9·4 min read·680 words

What Belongs in Your Agenda

And What Doesn't.

Apr 9·10 min read·1829 words

The Best Fountain Pens For Small Handwriting?

2026 version

Apr 8·7 min read·1247 words

Tomoe River Paper Compared

Sanzen vs Original Tomoe River Ink Test

Apr 8·10 min read·1821 words

Midori MD Paper Test

With Wet Medium Nibs

Apr 7·6 min read·1125 words

Tomoe River Paper Guide

For Fountain Pens And Long Journals.

Apr 7·6 min read·1158 words

Midori MD Vs Clairefontaine

Fountain Pen Ink Performance

Apr 4·6 min read·1103 words

Bock vs Schmidt vs JoWo Nibs

A Practical Comparison.

Mar 31·12 min read·2343 words

Memories, Memories

Hilarious Synchronization

Mar 29·1 min read·26 words

How to Use Neokyo

To Buy and Ship Japanese Goods to Europe

Mar 21·6 min read·1005 words

Fountain Pen Ink That Behaves On Cheap Printer Paper

Ink that works where real life happens

Mar 20·5 min read·876 words

The Intended Use of the Plotter Notebook System

And why it stays slim on purpose

Mar 19·10 min read·1810 words

A Simple Analog Index

That Makes Any Notebook Searchable

Mar 18·6 min read·1022 words

Handwriting Story Generator

Generate original short stories optimized for handwriting with fountain pens

Mar 18·4 min read·620 words

Are Expensive Espresso Machines Better Than Cheap Ones?

If yes, why? If not, see yes.

Mar 14·8 min read·1543 words

How To Build A Two-Pen Rotation That Actually Sticks

And not end up carrying 12 pens you won't use.

Mar 13·6 min read·1107 words

Fountain Pen Ink Dry Time Guide

For Left-Handed Writers.

Mar 10·5 min read·1000 words

Screen resolution for reMarkable writing pads

reMarkable Paper Pro, Paper Pro Move, reMarkable 1 & 2.

Mar 8·1 min read·79 words

The Art of Making Japanese Notebooks

LIFE Notebook Factory Tour by JetPens.

Mar 7·1 min read·18 words

The fizzy failure of paper straws

Save the turttles, but for the love of God, bring the metal straw!

Mar 6·1 min read·19 words

MacOS Spotlight Not Finding Files

A Practical Fix List for When Search Goes Dark.

Mar 4·8 min read·1444 words

Simple recipe for French Coffee

Ultimate? I don't know. Tasty for sure.

Feb 26·1 min read·18 words

Dessa 2026 Shows

The Minneapolis Performer Who Raps, Sings, and Writes Like It Matters.

Feb 26·7 min read·1283 words

Well, That Is Interesting

I don't know why it took so long to find this bag.

Feb 25·1 min read·158 words

Sunday Explosion

In the future I want to reincarnate as a hard rock guitar player.

Feb 23·1 min read·51 words

Calm your mind

And feed your soul.

Feb 22·1 min read·63 words

How to fully fill a vacuum-filling fountain pen?

Half full is half the fun.

Feb 19·1 min read·22 words

Just a little pinch

Full drama queen mode.

Feb 19·1 min read·12 words

The Neapolitan Coffee Maker

By James Hoffmann.

Feb 18·1 min read·7 words

Caravaggio

His life and style in three paintings by Letizia Treves from The National Gallery.

Feb 18·1 min read·15 words

Opus 88 Omar Brown Review With an Extra-Wet, Bold Nib

Tuned by Fountain Pen Nibs in Málaga, Spain.

Feb 18·13 min read·2461 words

Setting the Switch-Off Delay

On a Krups Nespresso Inissia

Feb 17·3 min read·478 words

Let me introduce you to the Belgian Malinois

The Dog That Won't Let the Day Stay Quiet.

Feb 17·8 min read·1524 words

iCloud Drive Sync Conflicts on Mac and iPhone

How to Spot Them, Fix Them, and Stop Losing Files.

Feb 15·8 min read·1546 words

Fountain Pen Shows

Where the Hobby Gets Real and Why You Should Go.

Feb 14·8 min read·1474 words

Djelem, Djelem

By Boï Patchivalo at the The Voice 2025

Feb 14·1 min read·20 words

Password manager backup plan

How to export your vault and store it without regrets.

Feb 14·7 min read·1298 words

Ötzi the Iceman's Last Meal

By "Tasting History" with Max Miller.

Feb 14·1 min read·21 words

Magna Carta Elements Earth Fountain Pen Review

YouTube review by Stephen B.R.E. Brown.

Feb 14·1 min read·28 words

The Low-Cost Aldi Espresso Machine

By James Hoffmann

Feb 13·1 min read·22 words

Free Filfofax Templates To Print

By PhIlofaxy and My life All In One Place.

Feb 13·4 min read·660 words

Notebook systems compared

Which notebook system fits your brain: TN, Ro‑Biki, Roterfaden, or Lochby?

Feb 10·7 min read·1384 words

A Simple System for Naming Scanned Documents

Your contracts, IDs, medical, taxes.

Feb 9·7 min read·1219 words

The "Case File" Folder Tree naming scheme

That survives Lightroom, Darktable, Mac, Windows and Linux.

Feb 6·13 min read·2587 words

Export and archive your Apple Messages chats on Mac

Including attachments and searchable PDFs.

Feb 6·7 min read·1238 words

Apple Photos “Optimize Storage” vs “Download Originals”

What it changes, what can go missing, and how to make it safe.

Feb 6·7 min read·1280 words

Article Clipping Without Hoarding

A Clean System for What to Save and Skip.

Feb 6·7 min read·1216 words

How to back up and restore a Lightroom Classic catalog

Previews, presets, and what to copy

Feb 6·8 min read·1492 words

A Clean Note-Taking Setup for E-Ink Tablets

Templates, Tags, and Weekly Review Habits.

Feb 6·8 min read·1428 words

System for saving web pages before they disappear

Save it to PDF, WARC, and “print to file.”

Feb 6·8 min read·1467 words

A screenshot cleanup system that sticks

Simple rules for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, plus one “inbox” folder.

Feb 6·7 min read·1245 words

How to export and archive your WhatsApp chats

For iPhone and Android, includes media and a searchable PDF.

Feb 6·7 min read·1295 words

A simple method to label and store cables, chargers, and adapters

So you stop re-buying them.

Feb 6·7 min read·1260 words

A sane Downloads folder system on Mac and Windows

With auto-sort rules, keep folder, and a 5-minute weekly purge.

Feb 6·6 min read·1110 words

A “media file truth” check

How to find duplicates, missing originals, and silent re-encodes.

Feb 6·7 min read·1250 words

How to export and archive your iStuff

iCloud Contacts, vCard backups, photo sync, and a safe restore test.

Feb 5·7 min read·1267 words

Photo culling that doesn’t take all weekend

A fast keep-delete pass with consistent rules.

Feb 5·6 min read·1117 words

The Street Doesn’t Lie

What Public Spaces Reveal About Real Character ch. 1

Feb 5·10 min read·1941 words

A “receipts vault” that works

With folder rules, file names, and how to find any purchase in 10 seconds.

Feb 5·7 min read·1309 words