Interview with Urban Hafner - founder of Fountain Pen Companion and Stationery Freak

We were VERY excited when fellow Stationery Freak and founder of Fountain Pen Companion, Urban Hafner, joined us on the podcast. Urban is a software developer, fountain pen aficionado, host of two podcasts (one of which is about stationery), bullet journal user and fan of nice stationery.In this episode we chat about:Fountain pens, inks and why Urban created The Fountain Pen Companion toolJapanese pencilsLearning handwriting and calligraphyWhy Urban throws away his journals once he's finished with themUrban's paired down Bullet Journal practiceDesert Island stationery - the five things Urban mentioned are below Urban flips the rules and turns his desert island into a paradiseWhy paper is so important when you're using Fountain PensA3 paperHelen joins the A3 paper movement and tries, weakly to justify buying a beautiful notebook. She did justify the second notebook as a way to practice learning Arabic.Rob share his use of the daily planner from LoveBellaBeso and also makes no attempt to explain why he bought some notebooks from All Things Analogue.Urban's bought some more postcards to send to his subscribersUrban's Desert Island stationery. Urban flips the rules and turns his desert island into a paradise. We didn'tEndless Recorder notebook: https://www.madebyendless.com/collections/endless-recorder-notebookGiants' Pens custom pen: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg0-HEdjiKB/Diamine Green/Black: https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/brands/13-diamine/inks/967-diamine-green-blackUni Penmanship pencil: https://pencilsandotherthings.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/mitsubishi-penmanship-pencils/KUM Masterpiece: https://www.kum.net/en/the-masterpiece/Products and Links mentioned in this episodeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/urbanhafner/2 Guys 0 Planners Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-guys-0-planners/id1436673888Expanding Beyond Podcast: https://www.expandingbeyond.it/Fountain Pen Companion: https://fpc.inkEndless Recorder notebook: https://www.madebyendless.com/collections/endless-recorder-notebookGiants' Pens custom pen: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg0-HEdjiKB/Diamine Green/Black: https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/brands/13-diamine/inks/967-diamine-green-blackUni Penmanship pencil: https://pencilsandotherthings.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/mitsubishi-penmanship-pencils/KUM Masterpiece: https://www.kum.net/en/the-masterpiece/Moo Luxe postcards: https://www.moo.com/uk/postcards/luxeFPC logo: https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/blog/4-introducing-fpc-the-fountain-pen-capybaraLoveBellaBeso on IG : https://www.instagram.com/lovebellabeso/All Things Analogue on IG : https://www.instagram.com/allthingsanalogue/These are the notebooks Rob bought : https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck2318OIO3y/Scribble and Dot notebooks - https://amzn.to/3VNn6dy