How Many Of You Use A Notebook Until Its Pages are Exhausted?

[auntiehill]

For work, I have legal pads that I use to take notes for myself. I also like little notebooks for personal things. I generally keep them until they are completely filled.

 

[Jono]

I like my notebooks to have a singular purpose and I don't like using one for multiple things. I'll make the exception if the book was hardily used after it's fulfilled its purpose.

 

[jamestyler]

I tend to use A4 pads for making notes, sketches etc. Anything I use gets placed in the correct folder (like this) and anything that I might use but probably won't goes in a pile on my right (here) until I hide it. I hate throwing sketches out.

Oddly thats only when I write - thats a self contained, and rather orginised, little hobby. When I'm writing for work, or making concept sketches they seem to be ditched quickly. I've got another two notepads right now next to the pile of blue files filled with notes and ideas on storylines from this year.

 

[RoJoHen]

I like my notebooks to have a singular purpose and I don't like using one for multiple things. I'll make the exception if the book was hardily used after it's fulfilled its purpose.

In those cases, I will rip out the used pages so that I can pretend it's a brand new notebook.

 

[SeerSGB]

I tend towards 1 notebook to a project; though I have a few that I've used as catch-alls for story/research notes. I think I've filled a couple, but more often than not about 1/2 through I'll switch up.

I'm actually moving back to using 3-ring binders over spiral bounds, aside from my pocket travel-journal I keep on me. Makes much more sense, in that I can use one for writing/note taking, and then sort the stuff out into appropriate binders after the fact.

 

[Kemaiku]

I have a section of one shelf devoted to my notebooks, several of them are old and starting to turn a bit "loose" with others spines going altogether and taped back up again. I flick back through some and see dates written years ago, or the ink of a pen I can no longer remember or skipping a few pages and seeing my art skills change with the years.

 

[SeerSGB]

Used to loved to write short-stories on unlined bound sketchbooks-- still do when I can spare the scratch. They just got to expensive, at least around here, to afford to grab a fresh one everytime a ideal struck.

 

[JonathonWally]

Of course, I haven't used a paper notebook in years. I write all my notes, journal entries, books, poetry, etc on my computer.

I do as well during most of the day, but I tend to get a lot of ideas at night while I'm relaxing in bed, and I've never quite gotten to like the whole laptop in bed arrangement. So I keep a notebook on the nightstand and just jot stuff down before I forget.

When it comes to some things, typing it up on the computer is fine. But for me, there's nothing like the flow of some fresh ink on paper. A good pen with a nice tip and good ink flow.

No delete button in sight, your mistakes stay with you.

Romantisizing it a bit, but hey, it's what I do.

 

[JimCasy]

It's an amazing diary of my earliest Navy days.. it starts in blizzardy North Chicago, then to beautiful San Diego, and on to Groton Ct where I join my first submarine crew in September.

Wow, that's pretty much exactly how the first few years of my brother's navy career went, minus the sub part.

When I was using notebooks in school to take notes, I used a new one for every class, but after a couple weeks I stopped taking notes and just drew all over them. I have a stack of notebooks left from that, and I just keep one out for making lists and jotting down dreams and stuff, then when that one gets full, I stick it back with the others and pull out one that still has space.

I use a smaller notebook for my "serious" writing, which I've had since high school (yeah, I'm not all that prolific), and it's totally falling apart. It stays next to my bed always.

 

[Tim]

I tend to use notebooks filling all the space, its a professional habit, as with Tim M my lab book must be written on every page, and my copper notebook must be space filling to prevent accusations of later alterations if it becomes evidence in court.

I usually start a new day's entry on a fresh page, but slash out any unused white space on a previous page. Every page is signed and dated, with important findings countersigned by my boss. Yes, things can get this anal in science.

 

[Timby]

I'm the editor of a bi-weekly, 32-page "alternative" publication (think the Des Moines Juice or Chicago Tribune RedEye). Included in my duties are the full layout and design of the magazine.

So every time we're going into a press cycle, I open up a new page in a spiral notebook with all of my "to-do's" -- placing of specific columns / articles, placing of images within layouts, the movie spread, the nightlife spread, etc. I'm pretty near towards the end of my current notebook.

 

[Holdfast]

I use a PDA. I don't think I even own a paper notebook any more.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

In '78 I

So many smartass comebacks. So little time.....

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Whether I finish a notebook will depend on how much use it has gotten. Typically, I'll get a three subject notebook at use each section for a different class. In some classes, I get down to the last couple of pages (in a few, I've gone over and had to use a different section of the same notebook). I have a tendency to doodle, so pages fill up even if there's no notes. Only in rare cases when less than 10 pages have been used will I reuse the section (in those cases, I'll rip out the old stuff so it looks like a fresh section).

I think I put more thought into that answer than I expected.

 

[SPOCKED]

In '78 I

So many smartass comebacks. So little time.....

:: ahem ::

 

[CaptMurdock]

The Mrs. tends to buy those "composition books" for the 11-year-old to do his schoolwork in, and she uses these as well for her stuff (grocery lists, working on short stories, etc.)

My older son uses spiral bound books when he working on his gaming stuff (before he puts it into his computer.) The notebooks come in three "sections" but I don't think he bothers to differentiate.

I have a DayRunner. I try to use all the pages because the specially-made notepaper is so expensive. I had to buy generic Note pages -- $4.00 for thirty sheets?!? Sweet Nephertiti!

 

[K'riq Sa]

i use all three. i have one of those black bound composition notebooks for class that i've had for years. it has been taped up twice. i use it for poetry, inventions and numbers of people that i want to have nearby, info on any job i'm working on.

i also use a clip board with paper with a list of to do stuff on alll current projects on the first page, quick design sketchs, and script outlines and stuff. and i have the palm treo 750 for dates and reminders and stuff. and the full size dayrunner.

and i still can't get shit done....




k'riq the unbeliever

 

[Admiral_Young]

I use notebooks for my journal entries and tend to use all the pages...also to jot down story ideas when they come to me.

 

[Naira]

Me, I use different notebooks for different purposes, so it's likely that most of them will never fill up.

 

[Trippy]

I use little black notebooks for lesson ideas, budgeting, marks, parent calls, and keeping track, when I'm trying to lose a few pounds, of caloric content of my meals. I use a notebook up before buying a new one.