[hoorayimhelping]

Interesting. I use Muji gel ink ballpoint pens, typically 0.7mm tips, and they are they first pen I've found that hasn't given me cramps (found 0.5mm to be too scratchy feeling). So I haven't really looked much beyond them.

The comments in this thread lead me to the wikipedia article for rollerball pens, which mentions the ink being the main reason the pens require less pressure to write and therefore produce less stress on the hand.

Either way, I love Muji pens and Muji pads. Finding them has led me to actually start writing, which has led me to keeping a dev journal.

[andy800]

+1 for Muji pads, pens, and everything else. I like to think I'm generally a healthy adult male. I enjoy football, eating steak, driving fast. But inside a Muji store, I'm like a hysterical teenage girl at a Backstreet Boys concert. I just want to take home the entire store. Best explanation I can give is admiration of the basic-ness and pure utility of their products, intrinsically making them beautiful.

[skat20phys]

My experience with gel ink pens is that they're incredibly smooth to write with but that you go through refills a lot more often than with ballpoint or rollerballs.

I've settled on a Retro 51 Tornado. Nice price when I've bought them and they take a lot of different refills.

[slowmovintarget]

Get the Retro 51s while you can. They're going out of business from what I've heard.