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

[Dayton3]

Looking around I've noticed the huge numbers of notebooks of various sizes I accumulate. Plus I've noticed that they all seem to have at least half of their pages unused.

Why is it that people stop using a notebook with so much still left to write on?

Does anyone out there use all the pages in a notebook?

 

[Ariadne]

I can't remember the last time I used a notebook at all.

 

[Nobody]

I would use a notebook when it was feasible to take handwritten notes (can't do that in law school like you could in undergrad ) but I never (or rarely) finished a notebook. I got a new 5-subject one each semester. So, once the classes were done, the notebook was done.



-nobody

 

[JonathonWally]

Looking around I've noticed the huge numbers of notebooks of various sizes I accumulate. Plus I've noticed that they all seem to have at least half of their pages unused.

Why is it that people stop using a notebook with so much still left to write on?

Does anyone out there use all the pages in a notebook?

Sure, all the time. But can only remember doing it once for school.

 

[RoJoHen]

I always liked to have separate notebooks for my various purposes, so I often leave notebooks unfinished if I need one for something new.

 

[Kestra]

All of my notebooks are usually filled to the end. I use legal pads mostly now, but those too are used up. I love starting a new one though!

 

[spoonunseptium]

Hm. I'll start in a notebook and plan to only use that one, and then I'll lose it temporarily, or I'll find a prettier notebook or one with better paper and start using that one.


Plus, I like the feeling of the first page of a new one- it's so..new. Fresh. virgin, even. It holds more opputunity.

Maybe it's come kind of psychological thing...

 

[Tim]

I write almost daily in my lab notebook and my previous ones have been written in until full. In fact, that has to be done if the book is to serve as a legal document for IP purposes, etc. down the line.

 

[Hermiod]

I spend too much time using computers. I saw the words "Notebook" and "pages" and thought this thread was about virtual memory performance.

 

[John Clark]

I do at work, but it's mostly for phone messages, reminder notes etc.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Unless I have another, cooler looking notebook waiting, I'm usually pretty obsessive about filling all the pages. Though I have been known to cheat and pull some unused pages at the end out so it looks like it's been all used up. I don't know who I'm trying to impress by doing that since I'm usually the only one that sees them, though.

I have tons of notebooks full of ideas, sketches, stories, journal entries, class notes, and so forth occupying a couple shelves. I'm not sure at which point it crosses over from being "Wow, that's cool, you obviously have a lot on your mind" to "Woah, this is starting to look like the serial killer's collection of notebooks from Seven."

 

[Elmo Dukat]

Not me. I'm the guilty person who uses the first ten pages of each section of the notebook, and then never uses it again.

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

 

[Locutus of Bored]

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.

 

[SPOCKED]

In '78 I used a 200 page spiral notebook for my annual journal. I wrote on both sides of each page (in pencil) and somehow landed at the final (400th) page on December 31st filling in every last inch. (Apparently I beat my cousin in three games of chess that night )

Here it is... a bit yellowed and tattered, opened up to a mid-August day that I placed the newspaper article on the future ST:TMP release

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. It chronicles my many awesome summer weekends in Maine while I attended sub school.

Unlike LoB, I did not "cheat" by removing pages, but we certainly shared an obsessive need to fill in all available real estate

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Yep, you wrote right over into the margins too. Though you lose points for not doodling up at the top.

That's a nice thing to keep and look back on.

 

[T'Baio]

I don't like to use anyone that way.

 

[Goliath]

Does anyone out there use all the pages in a notebook?

Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. I'm not sure why, in either case.

 

[Harvey]

I use my notebooks until they've exhausted all their pages, or completely fall apart.

The one I was using for "Africa through Film" and a "Survey of Jazz History" I've been using since elementary school (no joke). Some classes I don't take a lot of notes, and this particular notebook has gotten saddled with those classes every time.

 

[cultcross]

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.

 

[RJDiogenes]

I have a stack of notebooks for various purposes and projects in progress, but I eventually use up every page.