Ultimate Wallet & Notebook EDC: Plotter Mini 5

you see over the past 10 years I've had a bunch of different walls I've gone through the primary three contenders are these right here each of these represent a different style of wallet for a specific purpose but none of them really hit the mark they were all missing something something really important to me and that was to serve the other purpose of my primary carry and that is a packet notebook well for 2023 I think I found the perfect wallet for me it combines a wallet notebook all in a tiny package about the size of a normal bifold before we get into that let's look at some of my past wallets so early on I started with this Kickstarter dismio wallet which is basically just two slabs of aluminum and elastic band around it to hold some cards together as well as some bills and this works great if you want a minimalist carry just the tiniest package you can get away with calling a wallet the main problem with this is just you know it's not stylish it's just utilitarian and that's fine for when you need it nowadays I use this basically it's just to hold a big pile of cards and grab out whatever I need for it for the day so let's put that aside then came this Bell right wall which is beautiful it's nice sleek black I can hold a bunch of cards as well as some bills but it gets a bit bulky and well who wants that when you have to carry a notebook alongside it plus the fact is most time I'm wearing brown leather goods and the black just really clash with that so I saved this for those special occasions when I'm wearing a suit or something like that but then there's a real gem in this pile and that's the loyal Strickland Johnny wallet and this thing is just flat out amazing it's made out of a single piece of cut and folded leather and you're in it you can fit a whole bunch of bills a whole bunch of cards and frankly just looks cool folds up nice and Compact and really doesn't take up that much room in your pocket this has been my go-to wallet for the past couple years and I have absolutely loved it but once again I had major problems that was I was carrying a pocket notebook and Pen alongside that which just doubled the package size so I wanted to see if I could do better I want to see if I could find a good pocket notebook that could also double as a way to carry a couple of cards and a couple of billfolds and you know what I did just that so let's get all these out of the way and talk about my new wallet for 2023 and this is the platter mini 5 notebook and it is just amazing now the primary purpose of this is a notebook the wall is just secondary but let's dive into it first of all I've got this closed attachment band in there which keeps everything nice and compact nice and tight together and make sure nothing slips out we'll get to the wall section first and that is just right in the back there's this thinned leather sleeve in which you can fit a couple of Bill folds as well as a couple of cards I think you could probably easily fit four cards in here or two cards and a couple billfolds which is what I go with a driver's license and a debit card two debit cards if I need to carry around business purchases and for that it works absolutely perfect the carb pouch is nice and deep holds the entire card secure and if it was to slide out at all it hits the Rings making sure it won't fall out in the back of course with the secure band I have a place I can store receipts if I need to but the primary purpose of this as I said is as a pocket notebook and that is what has me really excited because this pocket notebook is about the same size as the Johnny wall that I was carrying before just a little bit taller and certainly much more compact when compared to the Johnny wall and a separate notebook now let's talk about the notebook features themselves as well as of course Wattpad I'm carrying if you're a long time Watcher you know that last year I said my favorite pack of pen ever was this spoke axle small pen and I stand by that 100 percent pen is an absolute joy to use it has a huge nip on it it takes a standard cartridge size so I can just swap it out for whatever cool color I want to play with that day and it's built like a tank has never leaked in my pocket it is absolutely wonderful unfortunately it's just a bit too big to fit in the plot or pen sleeve Plus for use like this I decided that I want to try the quickness of a clicky pen and so I went with the caveco Lily put ballpoint pen now I've used the caveco Lily put fountain pens before and I'm really not a fan of them you have to screw off the cap you have to post on the back to in order for it to be really comfortable at all and it's just not an enjoyable writing experience for me so far however this ballpoint version is fantastic it's very easy to activate and I can be quickly and writing a note in no time it's just great now the one downside about this pens for me is that it comes with a 1.0 millimeter blue refill which is kind of a junkie and two fronts for a pack of notebook like this I want something really fine and I also just don't like blue ink in the ballpoint so I'm gonna be swapping this out the good thing is it's just a standard D1 refill so I'm gonna get something in the 0.5 millimeter range that's also black and this then be a killer combination I'll just absolutely love this pen but let's go back to the plotter and talk a bit about that you see plier is a company that's been around for a while in Japan but they just made their debut to the US market last year you can check them out using the link down in my description below don't worry I don't get any back from that whatsoever this channel is definitely not big enough for sponsorship but it's a customizable refillable notebook system as you can see with these Rings right here on the website you can take your pick of a couple different leather types as well as a couple different leather colors as well as a couple of different sizes and you know I of course have a couple of different sizes we can get to those in a future video but once you pick your binder then you can choose all the accessories that you go in there I chose to go with this nice little leather protector here that kind of cushions and protects the leather from the Rings really I don't care I mean you already see the ring indentations here quite a bit and it's a pocket notebook and wallet it's going to show use with wear and I like that but I just kind of like how this looks and feels in here I also chose to purchase this page holder with this lasted band to hold the notebook clothes on the front and another page lifter with of course the pen loop on the back to hold my Lula as I was talking about and the wallet in between I have the normal platter refill pages and there are a couple different varieties of pages you can get I chose to go with just a classic background I find that is the most utilitarian I can just quickly pull it out and do whatever I want whatever Direction I want without being worried about being bounded by a really rigid graph notebook or lines the refills themselves come in these cool little notebook things where you just kind of rip out a page and add it to it if you want and when you're done if it's something you don't care about you can just rip it out and throw it aside or if it's something that's you know really special to you and you want to Archive it for later just you know open the Rings take it out and store it for later [Music] I've only been using the mini A5 plotter as a pocket notebook and wallet combo for the past two weeks or so but I can already tell you that I am going to love it it serves as the perfect combination of the pack notebook which I always have on me and the everyday wallet which as I said the beginning is usually only a couple cards and a couple of bills for me I can easily say that my old trusty Trio of the Johnny wallet the rodeo dot pad and the spoke XLS are going to be something that I put aside and only pull out for special occasions you know those days where I really need to carry a lot more cash or I'm going someplace like to the dentist I need to take a pile of insurance cards with me as I'll be doing tomorrow I'll pull the Johnny wall for something like that where I need the extra space and the dedicated purpose of a wallet but for daily use who needs those I've got my plotter do any of you carry a pocket notebook if so I'd really be interested in hearing what you use and how you carry it let me know in the comments down below until next time bye I'm also going to run into a problem with this battery I need to plug this in and I'm running down on the clock for the SD card as well [Music] so hopefully now we should be good on the battery hopefully this doesn't cause any crosstalk with audio [Music] um SD card 23 minutes accounting let's do this

Channel: Keli Fancher

Views: 91,197

Keywords: wallet, notebook, edc, plotter, plotter mini 5, pocket notebook, pocket pen

Id: LoCpQ141Wro

Length: 7min 46sec (466 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 17 2022