In every EDC thread I always see mechanical pencils and notepads

Pen: Lamy Al-star F nib, pick a nice blue-black ink. I also keep a second fountain pen around with green or red ink for marking things up
Pencil: Pentel Graphgear 1000, I like 0.5mm
Notepad: Rhodia Dot Pad (the wire-bound one, the stapled ones are a bitch to use because they don't fold flat as nicely and you can't tear sheets out of them without shitting up the whole notepad)
Planner: I like my Leuchtturm1917 weekly planner, I also have a moleskine journal which looks and feels exactly the same so maybe all those similar looking moleskine ripoffs are about the same

Trust me, I've sperged out over expensive pens and pencils and shit, these are the best and they're not that expensive. Don't fall for memes like rotring or mont blanc or whatever.

uni kuru toga pencil

>>59868524
Mitsubishi are king for pen and pencils.
>pencils
uni shift if you want something that won't physically tear a hole in your pocket.
>>59869166
this if don't mind the nib staying out
>pens
uni ball

>notepads
I get a dozen good ones free from companies I come into contact with so I never buy anything but perforated A4 so I can file important notes/calculations.

For some reason mechanical pencils aren't popular where I'm from and slowly slowly people around me are beginning to see the good in them. Not sure why they're a novelty here.

>>59869107
Rotring is not a meme. The only problem is that people use their pens for wrong purposes. Rotring and staedler are GOAT for technical drawing but are too expensive to use as an everyday writing pen.

>pencils
I have rotring tikky and faber castel grip 1347.
I really like the weight of grip 1347 but the newer ones feel a lot cheaper, I don't know where you'd find the older ones. Rotring otherwise is pretty good too.

>pen
Can second uni ball >>59870331
For fountain pens lamy is pretty good unless you want to spend quite a bit more

>notepads
Im looking one myself, i want something that has the form and shape of a passport, preferable black cover and blank pages