 Well hello my friends and welcome back to my channel. Today we're going to be doing a pen test on the new Aaron Condren life planners which will be live today when you're seeing this if you're an EC insider and then the life planners will launch I believe on the 29th for the general public but I wanted to talk about the paper quality and pens. Pens you might already have in your stash, things that you love to write with and a little bit about the paper quality. If you want to see a little bit more in depth of this planner duo I got the daily duo to review a little early. I will link a card up in the corner for you guys but I am going to bust into one of these and we're gonna do a little pen test for you guys. I have a ton of pens here and just wanted to I already kind of started doing things. So I'm going to use yeah I'm going to use this side of ze paper because on the very back of these daily duos usually there's a bunch of notes pages if you have like a regular life planner not the duo but this one only has the two pages and the one I would do it on won't show any shadowing because it's got like the Aaron Condren information page at the back so this wouldn't be very helpful. So I'm going to show it to you on this page because I don't mind if this page gets a little shadowing. It doesn't bother me at all. So I'm going to use these blue pens which I actually have a little box of blue and a box of black pens. I think I got these little boxes at Michael's you know like at the checkout in Michael's there's kind of like that little area where it's like a couple bucks or a dollar or whatever for certain things. This was only a dollar but I got two of them because I wanted to have a black and blue pen test. I feel like both of them would be redundant because I'm using the same things over and over and then at the end I'm going to share with you guys these pens which I here I'll show you right now but I'll do it at the end. This is the box and I put washi tape in the bottom of it that this pen comes in which will also be available on launch day and it had like all this foam in there and I just ripped out the foam because I wanted a place to store these which these are like little click pens or pens and markers that have like the barrels. So anyways I wanted a place to put them where they wouldn't be like tossed all over the damn place so this was my solution tada so they fit in here pretty perfect. All right so there's that so let's get into the pen test. Okay I'm gonna have to organize this a little bit so it's like markers and actual pens that's kind of like permanent permanent. I have it organized a little bit but let's zoom in and um yeah so for my regular pens that I have clearly a pencil is going to work just fabulously for you but I wanted to show you guys some different pens so I'm gonna start out with my favorite actual pen like a gel pen and this is the paper-made inkjoy gel pen in the 07. I don't know what it is about this color this is like a navy color it's not the blue one of my faves. This is the blue pilot g2 in the 10 so it's like a thicker point um I like a thicker point anything like an 05 or less I just I'm not into I like an 07 or larger that's just my personal preference and pilot g2s were my favorite until I found the paper-made inkjoy gels and I'm like okay I like those ones better this is the jelly roll 06 and also in a navy you can tell these pens have not been used in a while I like legit just keep them in that little clear container for these um my other ones that I use on a daily which I do use a lot of these daily um are other places okay and this is the erin chondron navy I don't know what the point is on this and I don't even know if they still have them but some of you might still have these um in your arsenal and I believe they're a gel pen but let's let's see here yeah that's very very pointy um not my fave but um you know it's good to test them all and then these are the pilot precise rolling ball v5 and they're the extra fine I have a regular blue and then also a navy so let's um let's try these out I don't I think these are newer to my collection I think I had a like gift pack like a pack of a bunch of these so I don't know let's try it yeah not my favorite again not as not as pointy as the erin chondron one but uh you know and I've never I don't think I've ever written with these before yeah too too uh I don't know scratchy too too scratchy for me um and then okay we're gonna go with the erin chondron sapphire pen these are the dual tip markers another occult classic and some of my favorites um I am a fan of the medium tip so we'll go into that in just a moment here's the fine point side and then we'll go to the medium which is my fave I don't know just works well for me I don't know I like it I like it better and then another favorite is the paper mate and this is the paper mate flair I don't know I just love the flair they're just nice they're easy they kind of go with most things unless you need a permanent marker which these most of these work really well on glossy or difficult to write on stickers that have a little bit of a film so these are kind of my more permanent style ones so let's get into this this is the micron 03 it's the pigment micron I can tell you right now I absolutely hate writing with these but I know a lot of people absolutely love them again it's too scratchy for me whoops man down hold on and I know I've gotten comments in these videos before like why do you keep all these if you hate them for this for this this is why I keep them um because everyone has something different that they like and then I want to show you if it shadows or if the shadowing would bother you um and these are all things I've either picked up over the years that I know don't work for me or that have been gifted to me or put in some swag bag and I just keep them because I know someone out there has them and they'd probably be interesting to see how paper holds up not just Aaron Conrad paper but other paper and stuff too so anyway so let's write this one down all right so the pigment micron and then we've got let's do oh there's two of these I don't I don't need to test two of them this is the Le Pen and I actually really like the way that this like the stroke of it like works really well but it's still again the point is too too for me too I don't know how to say it right nice and this is the stabilo do the I don't know how to say it I don't know how to say anything okay and then we've got this one which I absolutely love it's the marks a lot permanent and these are in the ultra fine tip um I did some research online and this one you can only get in like a rainbow pack they don't have these yet and I hope they do at some point so Avery if you're watching which I know they're not you need to make packs with just black and you need to pick make packs with just blue trust me um because I would buy them but right now you can only get them in a rainbow pack so these are the Avery marks a lot oh so good so good y'all and it almost rivals this bad boy which is my favorite fave which is the pilot ultra fine point permanent type marker um I'm just going to put pilot ultra fine because you don't need the rest of it oh my favorite that's my favorite one to write with for sure um this one's actually pretty good as well this is the sharpie permanent marker in the ultra fine point and this is actually navy um I actually had to buy from a seller on amazon like a box of these and my god they're they're so good they're not like this um like the lapin or the Avery like that's a very royal blue where this is like a navy which I very much prefer like you can see the difference and then this is just a regular sharpie marker just a sharpie fine point like the ones you get like big boxes of at the office supply store I'm just gonna write sharpie yeah and see the color between the two much prefer the navy photo okay so that's that let's look at the other side and let me do this let me zoom y'all in a little bit so you can see the shadowing because I know that's a big deal p.s turning 40 on january 9th in case you want to you know send me some love but I know so long ways away but anyways um but yeah you really can't see too much shadowing too bad nothing would really bother me until these ones like the Avery marks a lot and down so like the Avery marks a lot hold on let's go like this like the Avery marks a lot the pirate pirate the pilot ultra fine point the sharpie ultra fine and then our sharpie sharpie um those would really bother me but to be honest I personally write a lot with stickers like I put a sticker down and then I write with it so really I don't have a lot of this but if you are um concerned about shadowing I wouldn't do a permanent marker on this type of paper and this is um I think I said this already but it's an 80 pound mohawk paper and they've been using the same paper in their planners for is this their third or fourth year I think it's their third year um doing this paper and it's not um glassy feeling you know some paper is really glassy feeling it does have a little bit of a grip to it which I think is great for people that want to use stickers or whatever um it just it doesn't fly out of your hands which I think is nice um but I really like the quality that's very it's thick but it's not too thick it's not like cardstock thick but it's it's good but it's like an 80 pound paper anyway so yeah here we go oh let's zoom back out because this is the weird here we go whoa here we are and then why don't we use some of these er because I haven't to be honest I haven't used any of these yet um so let's check them out there's some highlighters which I want to put I want to put all the like ones together because you know neuroses and whatnot all right so with the highlighters I'm just gonna write highlighter right here because that seems like the easiest and then this is like a ballpoint pen just like a regular pen like a little twisty pen from erin kondren and you get this and the box but in the box you get that um foam thing I was talking about that I ripped out because I don't like it so yeah you can tell I have never written with this because it's skipping I should probably get the ball rolling on it quick you know like ah oh yeah kind of have to do that to warm up the pen sometimes um here let's try this one well what the heck maybe it's just my pen I don't know a failure okay and there's like nothing behind it that's so weird okay let me try it down here I just I don't know okay what is going on okay it's working fine on like this paper but not on the erin kondren paper I'm so confused okay now it's not even like what the what the heck why is it working on here but not oh my gosh you guys okay well this is a fail I I don't know I don't know what's going on but whatever let me just show you the highlighter all I wanted to do was just like go like a D's and go oh look at the highlight oh anyways okay these are just the highlighter colors yikes you know sometimes it's probably user error because I am kind of the worst when it comes to certain things um but anyway I didn't use the little doodad over here but that's okay all right so the fine tips there's three fine tips and then the rest are the medium tips so let's do the medium tips these feel exactly the same as the dual tip medium for sure yeah I really I like the medium like I said before I love the medium I'm not a fine tip girl at all I like a medium the highlighters actually felt really nice as well so yeah let's do some more medium yep that one that one's my jam yeah I'm not sure of the colors the colors will be listed on the website um when everything is live for you guys I just don't have the information right in front of me because you know I just don't oh I like this color this kind of I don't know like Sorbet kind of a color okay so that is that and then they all come with this like barrel and there's two barrels in the box that will be um available on launch day so there is that and then we have the fine tips so put again not a fine tip girl that's okay that's okay I mean they write nice it's just you know not my preference and I have three fine tips so I'll get this blue one down tada all right the pentas let's look at the back side of this so you guys can see hold on let's zoom y'all and just a little big here okay okay let's go beyond where it says sharpie these are gonna be you know where every where all the colorful ones are and I don't really see too much in the shadowing to be honest I mean when you lift it up you can see it just slightly but if you have a piece of paper behind it you really don't really don't see it um I see the most shadowing right here which is when I tried to use this thing and I was like going here here here like I couldn't couldn't stop because the pen wouldn't go for me so anyway but that's what it looks all like close up um I really like the highlighters and I like the mediums a lot the fines not my jam but I feel like if you like a fine tip you're gonna like those markers and then with the versatility of the barrel kind of nice to just swap these in and out once in a while all right so that's going to be the pen test for the new planners which are the 2021 through 2022 erin kondren life planners I will have a link down below for you guys if you are interested in any of the life planner products as well as anything from the erin kondren website which includes these bad boys right here the pen that was in this box and all that good stuff including these whoops pens right here um like I said life planner launch for insiders is today the day that you are seeing this and a few days later is for the general public so feel free to check those out if you're interested in a life planner I know I'll be doing a little shopping that day as well even though I already got my planners but you know what there's always other things I want you know what I mean so anyway that's going to be it for me today thank you guys for hanging out and watching this feel free to share this video if you have anybody out there that you know of that is interested in a life planner and wondering about paper quality this video would probably be really helpful to them so feel free to share it with your friends make sure to thumbs up subscribe do all those things those youtubers tell you to do and I'm gonna see you in the next video bye guys well folks it's time to kick it old school