I am always interested in what people are using their notebooks for. I often find that many people are using multiples for different topics.
I have a Traveller’s Notebook Standard size that has three inserts. I use two of the inserts as bullet journals for work / daily life logging and my future log. The third insert is a standard long-form journal that I write in mostly daily.
I have a Passport size Traveller’s Notebook with two inserts that I use as a wallet. The inserts are my gaming log where I take notes while playing whatever video games I am currently playing, and the other is just for catch-all like meeting notes, a bullet journal log for on the go, lists, thoughts etc.
I have a Hobonichi that I put just a daily log in of what I did on a particular day, and I will collect business cards or stickers from places I go an tape them in on the appropriate days. I am not a scrapbooker, but I find that this creates a fun little look through my life as I occasionally go back through old journals.
I supplement all of this with digital notes and a ToDoist account. I am a producer in the video games industry and have a lot of moving parts, so going all paper just won’t work for me. But I love having this hybrid setup as I tend to remember a lot more when I write things down.
How are you using your notebooks?
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I currently have a single Midori MD A6 blank notebook as my everything book. I’ll take my meeting notes in there, maintain my bullet journaling, routine tracking, the occasional impassioned words on paper while I try to process my thoughts and emotions, some ideas and learnings I got from books I’ve read and musings I came up with, etc, etc.
I’m tempted to split it up into multiple notebooks to organize it all better, but I know if I do, none of them put together would’ve gotten filled nearly as much as the one book that I would take with me everywhere. Just a few short months ago, I had tried starting a “Done” List for motivational purposes. But like every other time I had tried, it had failed completely to neglect within the first few pages, and then I would give up completely on it.
So one notebook, and one only. That’s my current plan for the foreseeable future. I just make sure I’ve got a crazy amount of ribbons to know where to return to in all that mess.
Right now I’m using one for media aka films, to track what I’ve watched, what I want to watch, what ratings I give etc
I use a lined pocket sized one for quick reminders or todos at work and home. Field notes brand, with an EF nib pen.
I’m relearning hiragana and katakana, and I use a larger Black & Red notebook for this. I also use a M nib for this purpose.
Nice! I really like Field Notes books, they were the first ones I started using when I got into carrying notebooks with me. I found that the ghosting was too much for me with fountain pens, so I ditched them a while ago. What pens are you using?
I really need to practice my hiragana and katakana. I rarely have to write Japanese but lately I have been filling out so many forms that I really need to re-learn to make my life easier haha.
Understandable. The Field Notes only works well for me specifically with the EF nib. Otherwise, with a larger one, it’d be a no go.
I’m using a Pilot Vanishing Point on the go, and a Majohn A2 for my Japanese practice.
I got into notebooks by way of a fountain pen addiction. I’m currently using a Rhodia Guidebook that I use as a long-form Bujo, an Artist’s Loft dot grid as a commonplace book, and a Midori 5 Year Diary as a record of the descent of America into chaos as despotism.
