You can use the little ballpoint pen that stores in the Victorinox Compact’s handle on its own ... or you can operationalize Knife Grip Mode by clamping it beneath the famous multi-purpose hook as shown here. Credit link my next tweet.

This is just one of the tips from Felix’s now-famous video about the Multi-Purpose Hook that he considers something everybody knows — but which I’d never seen or figured out after 30 years of Swiss Army Knife fandom

Look you’re not going to write “Boris Godunov” in this configuration but this will work well enough for signing a receipt or composing a few lines above Tintern Abbey after you used the multi-purpose opener tool to pop the cap off your pint of Samuel Smith

Not sure how many of the other traditional-sized models have an onboard pen, but some of the little keyring models, e.g. this Midnight Manager, have a *retractable* pen, made easier to use by deploying the flathead screwdriver. Really handy when we used to go places and do things

Maybe what I’m trying to say with this thread is I miss going places and doing things.