Victorinox Midnite Manager

This knife has been perfect for my keychain. Its length is such that it fits in with the rest of my keys. Width and weight are reasonable.All the tools are very functional and useful. This is a great combination of them.LED is fairly bright, and good enough for most reasonable situations where you need light in the dark. It wont work all that great for a worklight or whatever, but good for not tripping over the toy in the floor when you turn the lights off, or finding that keyhole in the dark. You use a pin or similar to push into a little hole on the side which opens a secret door on the other side of it. Then you slide the battery into it. I actually had to look this up, because it wasn't well explained.Scissors are surprisingly useful. Most little ones are junk but these have worked quite well, even cutting zip-ties and such when opening amazon packages.The pen is extremely useful! Its not as usable as a standalone because you'd have to take the knife off the keychain for extended usage which is a pain. Note that you can open the phillips screwdriver to extend the length of the "pen" which makes it a bit easier to use.Phillips head/bottle opener is nice and thick. Good for getting into tighter locations such as a screw under a doorknob I tightened. You can open it halfway to 90degree angle and get a lot more torque on the screwdriver if needed. Don't overdo it, but this is an option.bottle opener works ok.All in all, very lightweight but sturdy and quite convenient. just dont forget to take it off when traveling by plane! Least till some of the more stupid provisions are removed...I belive there is some talk about allowing small utility knives.

No, Victorinox's keyring-sized Swiss Army Knives are not the sexiest players in the knife game, but they might actually get the most use in it. The small, discrete knives disappear in your pocket or on your keyring right up until the moment you need them, at which point they'll tackle jobs many times their apparent size. You're not going to skin an elk -- although the blade is sharp enough that you probably could, in a pinch -- but I've found it the perfect companion for the urban wilderness.This is my latest in a long line of EDC keychain knives. I lost the last one, a Midnite Minichamp, after foolishly forgetting to take it off my keyring before an encounter with the TSA security officers at the airport. This was its replacement. This may sound counterintuitive because the Midnite Manager has fewer implements, but I actually like it *better* than its predecessor. It has all the best features of the more expensive Minichamp -- pen blade, bottle opener, scissors, pen and flashlight -- as well as the nice-to-have emory board -- and none of the ones you don't need. The Minichamp's extra cutting blades are redundant; I never used its weird cuticle pusher and ruler. Of course it's not like the Minichamp was *that* much bigger and heavier, but here less definitely is more. If the Minichamp scored a 90, this one scores a 99.Why not a perfect score? These pen-and-battery-equipped Swiss Army Knives can't handle a trip through the washing machine like the traditional models with a toothpick and tweezers. (Sadly I speak from experience here too.) They're small enough that losing track can be a real problem, and if your knife goes through the laundry and you lose your battery and pen, you've lost a lot of your capability in a heartbeat. The pen module and battery are replaceable, though, so it's not the end of the world. Also, the overall daily utility of having a pen and a flashlight are much greater, for my money, than the old-school toothpick and tweezers.Bottom line: The Midnite Manager is a fantastic little knife -- about the only thing it can't necessarily handle is the idiocy of its owner.

This is the perfect slim Victorinox knife for EDC. It has a good blade, great scissors, screwdrivers, a pen, and a light. All of that in a small package that I easily carry every day just in case I might need it. If I know I will need a tool, I will grab my bigger Victorinox. I also prefer the white light over the old red light.