It did change recently but not cause of the pandemic. I used to like never handwrite anything or would occasionally take notes. Then people didn’t always like tech so I had to handwrite. Then yes I was almost all typing for a bit and now I have to write a lot more. I do write with touch screen sometimes though so idk if that counts.
And like obviously lots of games are online and like I have to type a lot with friends too.
I love calligraphy and own both calligraphy and brush pens… but actually the shopping list is all I wrote manually in last years. 
And I use a pencil for that
I use decisively a pen for shopping lists. I may not need it after consideration, but I meant it when I wrote it, so it stays. 
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Your tictacs come in other flavours than mint and orange?
Round here you can get
For a while there was a line of zero-sugar ones out, including a lemon flavour, but those have disappeared now.
Which kind of pencils do you use?
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I used to take 5 pencils each time i went there. I thought it was a waste to let them rot away. And I stole their rulers, too.
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I use a Pentel mechanical pencil (graphgear 1000). It’s not an art pencil, but it fits the high quality, so that’s what I answered.
I don’t use pencils for anything but drawing
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I like mechanical pencils and pencils that don’t fall apart when sharpened, so I tend to go for god quality ones.
If we are talking makeup pencils, they are so hit and miss, a 30 euro one might be useless and a 3 euro one great, so it’s always a trial and error thing.
I have mechanical pencils from 0.2mm up to 5mm. I love them as I love fountain pens.
I wish I could use them more…
I did that too, but now I have enough for me and my daughters, so I don’t anymore. 
I found that IKEA pencils are quite good for drawing. Actually I only use those for all of my drawings, even though I have many quality pencils and mechanical pencils.
I love short pencils.
I used to cut my wooden pencils in half.
Now IKEA does that for me. 
Obviously a typo, but a g(o)od one. That made me laugh.
Unless you go to mount Olympus to buy yours.
Custard pie
I’ll let that typo be, then, hahaha 
Did you play once go with a pencil and a eraser?
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Although it is clear from context that you are using the common British usage to mean pencil eraser with the word “rubber”, you should know that in common American English usage, “a rubber” means something very different, i.e., a condom. Just wanted to let you know to avoid future surprise in conversations with Americans.
We do use the verb “to rub”, so one could argue that this usage of “rubber” is a nominal form of the verb “to rub”: “thing that does rubbing”, whereas “rubber” meaning condom and “rubber” meaning the material are both simple nouns, no? So isn’t it the case that Groin is not using the same word, it just happens to be a homograph and homophone?
Sorry, my english is far from perfect. Luckily I didn’t use the word in the poll so I edited.