The MeePlus A5 Shop Notebook

[Ryan]

Travel setup with my bible sized Mee-Plus… I use it for to do lists and sketching ideas… and I love it so much. Been in Hawaii for 2 months and haven’t skipped a beat work wise… a big part of that is this notebook.

 

[Precisefastcheap]

OK... Hole punches. Here are the ideal numbers to aim for in my opinion:



So basically, a hole size of 4 to 5mm that is spaced 3mm from the edge of the paper.

Most standard hole punches punch a 6 to 8mm hole about 6mm from the edge of the paper. If you use these, you won't be able to put as much paper in your MeePlus as the paper tends to bind against itself as well as the back of the binder. Remember, the binder rings of the MeePlus are only 11mm in diameter.

Thankfully, this is not a hard problem to solve with the right hole punch. Here are the options I have explored:



1. The Carl All-In-One hole punch. I stole one from my daughter, but you can get one here. This one punches a 5.5mm hole about 3.5mm from the edge of the paper. Close enough. And paper punched with this thing works fine. I just thought it was kind of a pain in the *** to use.



2. The Officemate Amazon Special. You can get it here. This one punches a 5mm hole (close enough) about 5mm from the edge of the paper (too far). But, it's far quicker to use than option one. So, what I did was print a little spacer that looks like this:



This spacer slides into the jaws of the hole punch and acts like a fence. It pushes the edge of the paper out 2mm so that the hole to paper-edge measurement comes out right at 3mm. Even with the 5mm hole size, it works perfectly. I can stuff the MeePlus with paper and I have no binding up between pages or on the back of the binder.

Hope that makes sense.

Ryan, would you consider posting your STL for the hole punch?

 

[no704]

I was using what I thought was a great pen on my lab notebook. I liked it because it felt quality and had a stylus on the **** end that I could use when wearing gloves.

After a couple months the ink started to disappear from the pages! Lost a lot of data! Turned out it was one of those erasiable pens.
Lost about 20 pages