Zebra Pen F-301 Compact Retractable Ballpoint Pen, Black Ink, 0.7mm, 2-Pack

Capping this pen makes it so compact - fantastic for pocket carry! Yet it easily becomes a full size pen that is comfortable to write with. I very much like the fine point, although it has a standard ballpoint "feel." Inexpensive and convenient.

This pen shines when you need to jot something down and disappears when you don't. I clip mine to my wallet where it sits in the bifold gap completely unnoticed. It gets sat on and jostled many times a day but it still writes like new and still clips securely. I pair this with a small Portage brand notebook - the small ones - https://a.co/d/0g0Hk2zC It's a great combination

These are wonderful pens.They write so nice.I like that.They are smaller , makes it so much nicer to use

These pens are so cool 😭 They look just like pens and mechanical pencils did when I was a kid. My dad is an engineer and half his pens were this style, with the textured plastic and steel. The pens are so small and relatively tough even though there's plastic. They aren't long enough that I'm worried about them snapping in half in my pocket. The clip is so thin and the top of the pen is so abrupt that the pen almost disappears if you put it in the middle of your book, even if the cover is flush with the pages. You can hardly see it from the front or back. The rigid plastic threads get abraded by the metal tip being screwed on, especially if you put too much pressure on it. Mine are white already from rubbed off plastic dust, and I've had the pens only a few hours. I hope I didn't mess them up too much by experimenting with different ink refills. They 100% could have made the metal tip more versatile to fit more ink refills. The designated refills come with a spring so there's no reason the tip needs to be so tight fitting. I genuinely hate the ink and ballpoint included with the pens lol. I hate it. But fortunately I have several other options. And I read that the g 301 gel refills also fit this pen. So anyway, ZCSM glitter gel, Crayola gel, Promarx gel rollers, Gelly Roll Stardust, Pen & Gear clicker ballpoints, and a bunch of $1.25 glitter gel pens can be cut and used in these. You just usually have to use them up halfway first. A lot of the cartridge tips barely stick out of the metal tip though, so if you hold the pen at an extreme angle to the paper the ink may skip with those. Some of them have a plastic collar that can be cut off easily. (Some pen models that I didn't list have collars that could probably be ground down to make the ink cartridge fit, but I wasn't up to that.) I used a blade at first to cut the easy-to-modify collars, but realized that fingernail clippers would be safer and work better lol. To cut the refill to the right length, put the ink cartridge in the metal tip, hold it lined up with the flat edge like in the pic (so it's even with where it would be when it's screwed on), and cut the cartridge like 1mm shorter than the bottom edge of the black plastic body of the Zebra pen. If you can scavenge a weak/short spring it can help account for mistakes. A lot of springs, like on some of the clickers, are way too aggressive. I really want to find a Frixion pen cartridge that will work but I've tried color sticks, Synergy and Clicker and none worked so far. I also want to find a way to make a Micron PN marker function, but I think it probably can't work and I can't experiment more today. I used aviation snips to cut the plastic straws, fingernail clippers and utility blades for shaving down collars, and pliers to pull apart the pens

LOVE this pen. It is easy to carry in a small purse and writes beautifully. I really like that you pull off the cap to make the pen longer (more comfortable to write with) by putting the cap onto the bottom of the pen. It would be easy to carry in a pocket as well.

I've used Pilot F-301 full-size pens for years, and have found them very reliable and somewhat elegant, considering their inexpensive price (like the metal barrels, most others are just plastic). This compact version is pretty cool, looks almost the same, uses the same refills, and writes just as well, as a result. It appears the cap will stay in place, too, as it has a firm click in the closed position, and a sizeable portion of the barrel slides inside the cap, when you are using it, so it won't fall-off. I actually wanted a keychain pen, which I had before, but turned-out to be cheap and unreliable (stopped writing and the 2 refills I had didn't work either). I looked for a better one of similar design, but according to most of the reviews I saw, they're all pretty much crap, so went with this name-brand clip pen instead, as I know their refills always work. It's the perfect size to fit in the small change pocket of my jeans, which is what I wanted, as I often don't wear shirts with pockets and standard size pens are a hassle to carry, in that case. I've found it will fit snugly, diagonally in that pocket, if you don't use the clip. This also will help keep the clip from breaking-off, due to overuse. You get 2 pens in the pack, too, for a great price, so you have a back-up.

Saw these these are pretty cool and compact. The nice thing is is that when you open them up and you put the cap on the back it’s close to full size pan very smooth good value for your dollar I use them in my EDC kit.

These pens are perfect for when you go out. They are a very low profile and light in your shirt pocket and are made of great material (stainless steel). Plus they write smoothly and on everything. For me a great value for the money.

Tamanho super compacto excelente escrita

Lovely compact pen, always have one with me, write well.

Its small enough for my kids to take with them on travels. They love it. Smooth writing and drawing.

Has been a comfortable everyday carry pocket pen for several weeks so far. The clip is easy to bend back to put onto something and springs back into place as expected. Keychain/lanyard hole is very convenient for putting onto my keyring with a bit of string. I was able to make this compatable with Fisher refills using a 2.5mM drill; out of the packaging the hole is just a fraction of a milimeter too small for one to fit through.

Great little pen that converts to almost a full sized pen. Some plastic at the black area of the pen. I was hoping for metal but now that I have used it often I don't mind. It is portable, light, and writes well.