The Absolute BEST Way to Use a Notebook
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Yes! Everyone must’ve thought I was so crazy at the cafe today when I pulled out notebooks nonstop out of my bag
I use one notebook at a time and do all of these in there. I take it everywhere to write ideas, thoughts, quotes, notes on books, life organization, and goals.
A hybrid commonplace book. Nice!
Same, I’m too scattered and travel too much to have different notebooks for everything 🥲
Me too
That's my favorite way to do it as well after trying many methods. It's nice to have everything in one place. Marking it with cheap tabs makes it easy to mark pages.
Ok and when its full, what to do with it
Notebook junkie since I was little kid. My dad was an industrial engineer, artist, photographer. He always had stacks of notebooks, drafting pencils artist pencils and pens in his desk and various sets of Cross pen & pencil sets, no we are not related to the Cross pens, haha. I always ran around as a kid with a leather binder my dad gave me and wrote in it when I was a kid. But my obsession with all things pen related began when I was in fourth grade and my 10th birthday my dad bought me my first Cross pen & pencil set ✒️📓📕
🤔📓 I'm here because I've been trying to simplify and declutter my digital life and write things down by hand more often, since I'm convinced there are mental benefits to doing so. I'm just trying to get ideas on how to build my notebook system. It has always felt overwhelming because the sky is literally the limit on what you can do with notebooks, and I haven't always been the best at actually writing in them habitually. Thanks for the suggestions!
As soon as I saw that beautiful masterpiece of a mustache, I knew he wasn't bluffing about being a philosopher.
📓notebook buying junkie, below average at filling them out fully & organizing them… but working on it, which is one reason why I love this channel
I'm probably not far off in guessing 25 notebooks, some filled, some unfinished, some untouched... but using one notebook for each word in your comment?
🙌🙌🙌🫡💪🤝 really appreciate you! First channel member right here💪💪
@@ParkerNotes let’s go baby, keep up the phenomenal work my good dude
📓📗📔📘📙📒I'm a crazy notebook person. Bujo, philosophy notes, physics notes, memories I need to work through. And morning journal. Also ideas, for both stories or business plans.😂
I really enjoy your content. Being a Marine Corps Veteran that has spent some time in Wounded Warriors-they taught me that carrying a notebook around and being able to log my day and reflect how that day went every evening is one of the best forms of therapy one can do for themselves. I have multiple different notebooks but really like the idea of an analog lifestyle. Keep up the great content! 📓
I have started using more and more notebooks because of your videos. I have a catch all pocket notebook, a reading log of sorts, a Sunday sermon journal, and I’m starting a nature log too. It’s been such a breath of fresh air to step away from technology (IT by trade) and take a more analog approach to things. 🧙🏼♂️
I love to see this!! Glad you're getting a bit of relief from tech!!
📘🧙🏻♂️I use a catch all, a work log book / to-do daily book, a sketchbook for ideas, a daily journal for thought and feelings… I think the trick is to find a level that suits you… I tried bullet journaling but found I was spending more time filling it in than actually working or thinking so dropped that… thanks for the videos really enjoy them
📓 I’m kind of the opposite of you in how I notebook: there’s one for pretty much everything. Class notes (doing my second masters in theology) are in their own books, as is any fiction writing project. But my personal life gets one notebook. It’s my planner, diary, reflection journal, prayer journal, reading log, movie/show log… it’s like the paper version of me and my mind and it goes with me everywhere in a great leather cover.
I also want to take this chance to thank you for making these videos. I found your channel while looking for some inspiration about how to better organize and use my notebook, and came across your video about soliloquies. You’re pretty inspiring, Parker! This one gives me some great ways to think about my personal writing.
Please make that video about a personal handbook! And I’d also love to know where you studied theology. Keep up the good work, Notebook Sage and Wizard. 🧙🏼♂️
I really like your videos on stuff like this, so much content about journaling is about productivity and optimising your time in quite a capitalistic way, while this is a lot more about living philosophically and intentionally - just feels a lot more sustainable and nourishing, it’s great
I'm so glad to hear this!! I'm studied philosophy and I want to share that, If I can slip in some productivity that can help, I will, but it's always going to be philosophy first
I'm still trying to figure out a method, but I think I narrowed down what types of notebooks would be most practical for me after watching this. The concept of a soliloquies journal, specifically, is the exact thing I've been trying to accomplish, but didn't quite have the word for it and had forgotten your mention of it in a previous video. Very helpful. Thanks again, man.
I have four notebooks
1. My weekly journal/diary that’s more like a monthly journal/diary
2. A mass collection of notebooks where I took notes on the books I read for a planned TH-cam channel that I’ll never get around to making
3. My workout logs that I for some reason like to keep over the years
4. My pocket notebook with everything possible scribble you could imagine
Never thought I’d end up being a notebook guy, didn’t set out to be, yet here we are lol
I have my notebooks going all the way back to the early nineties.
Thanks for your videos they help me think more deeply about the way I collect information.
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I now know your channel for a while and I knew that your obsessed with notebooks , but I am fascinated every time for which things you have a notebook. Like a "workout log", what!?
📓 journaler out of necessity. With my autism and adhd my head is always full, overwhelmed, and journals give me structure, a place to offload the brain brees and actually engage with thoughts and what not that usually fly me by in my head. I keep a morning page journal, a Companion journal that records my reading logs & book notes as well as thoughts and such throughout the day, a gender journal where I think on my gender experience and how my transition affects it, creative writing notebook for some daily creativity as well as one for the world I'm building in TTRPG, just to name a couple. I really love the way you talk about notebooks and related topics, keep them going 👌
I have a Leuchtturm pocket for philosophical ramblings/monologues and their Bullet Journal 2 for organization/daily reflections. I hope each will help me reach my goals.
I definitely need an A5 for the philosophical thoughts because the pocket is filling up quickly 😂
(📒) I started writing/journaling at the age of 10. It was more of a diary than anything, and it was mostly nonsensical ramblings of a young child. But as the years grew by, I grew fond of writing and just collecting and assessing my thoughts. Currently, I've only been writing for half a decade, but it has already helped me so much-from helping me realize the kind of person I am, realizing how my mind works, whom I wish to be in the future, and etc.
And thanks to this video and channel, I now know what to call my notebooks and how to differentiate my journals, from my catch-it-all, and etc. Thanks so much, ParkNotes!
📓🧙🏽I LOVE notebooks. Specifically those I can insert into leather journal covers. I have a pocket leather journal with three inserts, a standard Traveler’s Notebook sized leather journal with two inserts and an A5 sized leather journal with one insert.
In the pocket leather journal I have one insert I use as my bullet journal, another insert I use as a “catch all” notebook, and an insert I use as a reading log (which I recently started after watching your reading log video).
In the standard sized Traveler’s Notebook journal, I have an insert I use as a common place notebook and an insert I use as a diary.
Lastly, in my A5 sized leather journal, I have an insert I have been trying to figure out what to do with.
This video gave me lots of great ideas! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video.
🧙♂️I always enjoy your content, you have motivated me to get back to reading and philosophy which has helped me out of a deep spiral of depression due to being laid off. Always love to hear your ideas, as for me I have been keeping a catch all for awhile and have started branching out to other types of notebooks as I have been learning more!
Let's go!!!! This is the best. I'm so glad. And I know those catch-alls are gateway notebooks 😅 keep going! This is awesome
I just started using notebooks because of your advocacy. I'm keeping it simple and using only one. I don't think I can handle anything more than that. It'll mostly be gleaned and self-generated thoughts. Thanks for this!
One of my favorite youtubers. Thanks for the info you've given and for getting me into writing more this year
Let's go! So glad to have you here on the journey with me🤝
🧙♂️Catch all is definitely a great starting point for everything. I’ve always struggled trying to place my daily tasks both personal and work related, trying to figure out what goes were. Luckily this year I got a planner that was just monthly view and notes. Honestly it works more than anything from the previous years. Also have a blank 240pg notebook as my diary. Used to have a daily dairy with dates written and honestly stopped using it because it came with the pressure of filling up the entire page. Blank notebook allows me to write however much I want for the day sometimes half a page, sometimes 2 lines. No guilt whatsoever. I can use it cover to cover so I don’t have to discard it yearly. And somehow I managed to be consistent and it motivates me to keep writing daily.
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Thank you for making this video. Since finding your channel, all of these different types of notebooks and their purposes got mixed up in my head. This video helps me apply these for my needs.
🧙♀️ i feel like i already watched this video but heck….i will rewatch whenever i feel lost or overwhelmed about my notebook stash
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Your channel is incredible Mr. Parker, I just discovered your channel by accident and I don't regret following your content, you're incredible, keep making these types of videos
📓 I love to collect my thoughts and see my self as a very novice writer and I am incredibly glad that I found your channel. I’ve always been a jumpy scatterbrained person who can’t sit still, but when I pull out my field note book and jot down some cool new ideas it really calms my mind and helps me to focus on what’s important in my life. I’m excited to see what you do in the future my friend 😄
Every video is masterful! I'd love to see more about your prayer journals and your analog day scheduler book. 🧙🏻♀
Profound thanks, brother! I'm a polymath who's crippled by severe ADHD. I'm 33, and I would've become a polymath like you if I only weren't so lethargic all the time.
I have a lot of notebooks, too, that I've bought over the years, but they're all blank. Thanks for motivating me again! I'm definitely going to incorporate some of your ideas. I've been wanting to have a dictionary book for over a decade now. I have had a couple, but I failed to be consistent and stopped recording words after a while. As a teenager or a pre-teen, I recall having a tall notebook for useless info/trivia. I recall cutting and pasting clippings from magazines. Good old days! Again, I wasn't consistent, and I stopped doing that after a while. I'm always very low on energy. Too low to even exercise.
I used to be the best at taking notes in college. For some courses, I'd take notes by hand very quickly. But for others, I'd be too lazy to take notes. The most recent thing I've done is voice-recording class lectures. But I have almost never listened to them later to take notes. 😢
I was going through your recent philosophy books for beginners video (again) today and was planning to get some of those books and start reading them.
I made it to the end, and I watched everything. Looking forward to the proverbs! 🧙♂️
Fellow ADHD'er here who has thousands of blank notebooks under their belt. Paper notebooks don't tend to work for people with ADHD because as soon as we set it down or put it into a drawer, we forget about it. It's just much better to do things digitally. Apple notes is great, Notion, Obsidian, and One Note are also good options. The ability to search is a Godsend for ADHD.
so as someone else with adhd and autism, i would disagree with bae over here. we just need to use different methods
@@baejay798 i wouldnt agree with this. ill give some methods and whatnot when i get home and have more time but we can make it work, and i find its actually far superior once you do find a working system. more explanations later though lol
ok so, i have returned lol. bullet journaling in the way originally defined by Ryder Carroll was create specifically because he has adhd. thats a great system, although some just use it as a calendar. thats moreso how i use it. i put notes and things on notecards. i can go more into that if you want to use a system like that for notes. but ids say bullet journaling and also common place books if you want something even simpler. if you feel lost or need help, feel free to ask buddy :)
I'm a 90s kid. I did try writing on my laptop, and I liked it for a few days, but it was quite annoying to write on a screen. I prefer pen and paper/a notebook - old school is the best school!
📓thank you Parker. I am loving your videos and advice. You take it so far from the “here’s my to do list for the day” nothing wrong with lists, but I really appreciate your insight on how to use notes to collect and capture ideas.
This was SO HELPFUL!! thank you so much 📓 🧙
I was busy taking notes in my catch all while watching and took a screenshot of your mind map for future reference. This is another one of your videos I’m going to need to watch more than once as there is *SO* much helpful info in it!
I take notes of pretty much everything, but they are really disorganised, so this is super helpful to think about how I can organise them to make them more helpful.
I use a bullet journal, a long form journal (you would term it a diary) an A5 catch all for meeting notes, ideas, notes from phone calls etc.
There were two things that jumped out at me, the journal questions of what happened, how did I feel about it and THEN the extra what action did i take and how was it received. I have added what could I do differently as well. The other thing was “what am I going to use this notebook for?” I bought two new notebooks after watching your deep thinking journal video and then had analysis paralysis of what am i going to use this for? Which subjects? Why do I need to keep a commonplace book? A general one or a subject specific one? so this has made me pause and think before diving in.
I would definitely be interested in a personal handbook video as I also have a bunch of index cards with notes on - mine are DBT skills and stuff so this idea really speaks to me. Thanks and keep up the great work. Love this channel.
This video was amazing really helped to gain more knowledge and clarity !!
notebook emoji from me, thanks for good content. i switched to 'catch all' notebook after watching some of your videos, and don't use phone for notes anymore. wish you luck in your work!
That's awesome! I hope you're finding the catch-all to be more beneficial than your phone 🤞
📓 📔 📒 the way I notebook is doing a Diary, work schedule, about my list to do , list of goals , a list of skincare and about other topics I want to document my notebook is so chaotic
I started to following you to get into reading and writing my thoughts and creative stuff. Though I have bad hand writing, I hope to improve it and gain that sense of asthetic of writing
Great video man! That idea about a personal handbook is definitely
Intriguing, I would love to see it!
This is the best video on that topic.
I will be using 3 Notebooks.
One for thoughts ( personal and collected ) so it will contain quotes, information, and my insights on ideas to know thyself
The second one will be for experiences. Daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual reflection. Reviewing my progress and a diary, I will ask myself what I did well.
How would I do that thing differently?
The last one will be for self-mastery (goals, tasks, time blocking ) and also it will be my catch-all as it is a pocket notebook.
Really loved this video! I'm definitely going to pick up some of these notebook ideas! Keep up the awesome content!
So glad you liked it
Hey Park, greetings from Brazil, thanks for the video, it really helped me.
🙌🙌🙌🫡 I'm so glad!
very helpful - thank you
🤝🤝🫡 glad to help!
📒 I use notebooks alot😂 in fact while watching this I’m adding to my TBR list in my spiral notebook and marking off books I’ve finished recently
I love these videos. So much useful info instead of the usual "this is how I decorate my journal" I´ve found so far. So much info that I find myself taking notes on how to take notes.
Same! I’m actually using one of my thick passport sized notebooks to keep notes of all these great suggestions here. Kind of like a notebook for notebooks and sounds weird but I’m trying to collect all these inspirational ideas in one place or I’ll lose them.
You make me love notebooks and writing in general more and more with each video... 🧙🏼
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As a person with a ton of notebooks, this video is amazing and helpful.
🙌🙌🙌 let's go!
Great video! Would be cool to see a video on how you decide how much of your thoughts you share online, like thinking versus sharing.
great video, parker! i have a digital system that i do a lot of my notetaking with (obsidian) and one thing i've always struggled with is the utility/logistics of categorising my ideas like this (a popular obsidian workflow is to minimize the structure of where you keep your notes, which never really worked for me 😅)
i've thought a lot about it, but was never able to crystallise it as well as you've done it here -- this has given me a lot of ideas on how to better implement this in my system. thanks! 🙂
📔📓📓I use a journal (for Scripture reading/book notes/ journal journal/ letters/ meditation, and prayers), a catch all, and a pocket proverbs notebook. Using these has drastically improved my thought processing and is also great for my spare time instead of the doom scroll (which I learned through your videos). I've always used a journal since I was a young lad and now learning about various other methods and notebook uses has been great for me mentally and spiritually. I really enjoy your content and also listen to Parker's Pensées... a ton!
🧙♂️ have several of these but need to get back to them and would be useful to work on starting some othes - thank you for the encouragement
Very glad you found it helpful!!
This was the video I needed.
🫡🫡🫡 I'm pumped
📓 I started journaling last year i go through hot and cold fazes, but I write down what I did that day, random thoughts, books I’ve read etc I don’t know if it works or why I do it but I think I do it to get my emotions out because in person I come across as very aloof and distant.
man i miss keeping a sketchbook. they ended up collecting a lot of my journaling, class notes, quotes that inspired me. my problem with written journals is consistency, but i was always in my sketchbook to draw anyways!
This is an amazing way to frame what I feel like is commonly referred to just as journaling. The catch-all and I'd even venture to say "trendy" term of "journaling" doesn't appeal to me, but the idea of books for specific purposes does, and I've gleaned many benefits from writing things out. Thanks for making this and for your work on making writing more approachable and desirable to those like me!
absolute GREAT vid . thanks 💖 🧙
🙌 so glad you liked it🫡🫡
📕📓 📒 I love notebooks. I keep one for passages that spoke to me from each book I read. I use one for meetings at work. I’ve just started one for studying poetry. And I keep art journals as well. Loved your video.
That's nice
📓I love your notebook videos, you always have such great ideas
8:40 I started doing this at the beginning of the year with a notebook and folio my GF got me as a gift. I feel like its helped me retain and analyze what I'm reading by a considerable margin.
Its half journal and half commonplace book. As I'm reading the book i will write down interest or poignant quotes. Once I'm done I write my "review" expanding on the quotes i captured previously
Lol 🧙 I keep an informal diary, a few catch-alls littered around my house , a digital system for my notes, and notebooks for developing my writing.
Sounds like you're killing it 🫡
My first and only notebook is a catch all. I feel like it’s perfect for just putting everything into it, so time will tell what kind of notebook categories make sense to one personally. Thank you very much for that nifty overview, that definitely helped a lot 🧙♂️ 📓
I love these ideas. Everytime I watch your videos I think I buy a new notebook. 😂 I’ve tried many different types, but what currently works for me (and that I keep up): a long form “what happened in my day” journal;
a commonplace book for the different online courses I take and nonfiction books I read;
a personal proverbs collection;
a book reading record (with reviews);
a creative writing ideas book;
and a spiritual practices journal (Centering prayer insights, mindfulness etc).
Also I keep visual art diaries (a variety of sketchbooks for different art media). I used to also keep a cognitive diary for discussions with my psychologist when I was first working through anxiety and depression. I find handwriting personally necessary for retaining and assimilating the information long-term. Thanks again for another inspiring video. 😊
🧙♀️ now i am a wizard. Thanks this was a great video. I use several notebooks, for different sorts of things. Most are topical journals and diaries. I do use a bujo and i agree it's much more of a diary than a journal, which is fine. The one thing I'm really lacking are the places for generated thoughts. I loved your breakdown on that. I just flipped my field notes sized notebook that I'm using as my commonplace notebook sideways so I'll have room to write the quote (or whatever) and have space to write my own thoughts beside it, turning it into a manuscript style. I also loved learning the dionaria (?) style- having a dialog with myself (out the various parts of myself) seems like an awesome idea. Thanks so much! ❤
🤔- it was helpful information. Thank you.
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📓 "what task do you need a tool for?" Is maybe the best starting point I've heard someone boil this down to. Ty for the illuminating breakdown!
🙌🙌🙌🫡🫡🫡 thank you I was hoping someone would appreciate that!
@ParkerNotes indeed! It can be so easy to get caught up in my thoughts and unintentionally overcomplicate things no matter how simple they are. Thinking in broad terms like this can be very helpful to reorient my thought process 😅
Love the notecards!
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📒 trying to streamline my notebook practice. Have a work TN, an art TN, a Moleskine sketchbook, a Midori MD commonplace that wants to be a general notebook, and an A6 MD that's supposed to be a bullet journal. Oh and two passport TNs, one for a hobby and one for the TBR / book series order if reading list. 😂
🧙♂️ i use a modified minimalist bullet journal catch all with spreads (so not just a diary) as my note taking system. Im currently writing in a dotted pocket sized Leuchtturm1917 with the 003 Pigma Micron pen (I used plain pocket sized Moleskine notebooks back in the day.) I i haven't started any commonplace books yet but I do plan to sometime between now and starting university in 2025 (Bsc in Cognitive Science.) I always appreciate your channels and look forward to your future content!
Love your channel! I already keep all three of these - 📕 a "commonplace book" which is really a combined commonplace + compendium of gleaned information on topics that interest me (mainly history, philosophy, religion and spirituality). Anything I read or watch that I want to remember, I keep in here. I'm a fiction writer so research I'm doing for a story goes in here too. 📕 my "daily pages" which are a combination of lived experiences and self-generated thoughts and reflections. 📕 My bullet journal encompasses all of the self-mastery stuff; tasks, trackers, lists, time-planning, project management etc. I use A5 notebooks for the first two and A6 for the bullet journal.
In your personal notebook/handbook you should include how to set up personal protocals. I've been working on including some here and there (quite a few from Hubermanlab) with varied success but the idea of a dedicated book for this sounds like it would be a great help. I definitely want to see that video!
Midori Passport for daily tasks in Tumi small purse, Midori standard for travel in tote bag, Cousin for weekly organization and meeting notes on the dining room table, Jibun Techo for finances (beside Dining Room table as is the)… Hobonichi 5 year for memory keeping and weather documentation Part of the Morning Routine also), Amazon green cover A5 lined notebook for book notes, Esmie 8 x 11 for Morning Pages.
🧙♂️The same but in digital + random notebook. When I need to disconnect or write in class I use physical paper. Then everything goes in a photo online or to the place it belongs (google sheets, calendar, tasks, notion, drive, keep). The thing is to actualize them when reviewing. I need to take another photo on that and delete the previous one 😂 💤.
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📓 I always have multiple notebooks going at the same time. I have a journaling notebook, work notebook, garden notebook, knitting notebook, book notebook...all the notebooks.
🧙🏽♂️ been using notebooks for years. Loved the overview
Thanks so much! Glad to see another wizard!
I would love to see a handbook!! Go for it!
I enjoy how you manage to always in some way categorize these sorts of concepts when they feel like they'd be rather abstract, it helps a lot in trying to figure out a way to make a choice on what I want to keep analog notebooks and idea gathering places about.
Do you think that writing/fiction ideas would fall into the self-generated category?
Thank you! This was a super helpful video. I have honestly never heard the difference between "journal" and "diary". That has inspired me! I have a diary, but a journal sounds very exciting to me, especially a journal to process through theological understandings and the philosophy soliloquies. I need more notebooks. 😂
These are all great uses, thank you! I keep a Commonplace book but I also keep a Book of Perceived Sleights. It sounds passive aggressive but ironically once I write it down I’m not as pissed about it anymore and I feel no need to “retaliate”.
Great video. I have tons of notebooks (mostly just cheap collegeblocks or even mere binders with different categories). I wrote in all of them, as I am interested in many different topics and I love taking notes manually.
However, I am a little overwhelmed by the amount of notes and notebooks.
So, how do you organize them?
Do you recycle from time to time, or go through the old notebooks and write the information that is still relevant in a new notebook? The last thing I want is a pile or shelf of used up notebooks gathering dust, if I don't refer back to them. I also noticed, that some of the pages are actually fading, and a lot of the information is obsolete after a while (like with lecture notes, once you progress to advanced courses in the same field). However, I am also adamant of just throwing them out.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I do something similar with one notebook! Yes…I go through several notebooks in a year! I divide my sections by gluing on a paper tab to keep it organized and so I can find things easily ! I so appreciate your showing this! I look forward to seeing more of your work. I do separate into 2 different notebooks using one for church and studying Gods word and a separate notebook for work. My 3 notebooks go with me everywhere! It’s refreshing to know that someone else does this!!! Thank you!
📓Have 2 working notebooks with me (1 notepad on me always), and a bunch different ones in storage waiting their turn.
Still learning to use them at full potential so your videos are greatly appreciated.
🧙♀from tokyo, japan! i use 4 notebooks from daiso poket size notebooks to daiso(1coin) medium sized notebooks. one is where I write negative thoughts. another is where I write positive thoughts and sometimes habit tracker(post it) is attached. i write a blog based on my thoughts on quote so I have a notebook for brainstorming about it. the last one is a timeblock daily planner!! thx for the vid! keep going and you are cool!
📓🧙♀I have so many notebooks for so many different things! My primary ones are my bullet journal (which I have always used as like an outline for my schedule that I fill with my experiences), my Common Planner dedicated to my job, and then a notebook that's basically a diary but solely for the use of all my fountain pens and inks so it feels special. Then notebooks I use frequently but not necessarily daily are my reading journal, my media quotes journal, and my 5-year Some Lines A Day journal. And I have so many more that I pop in and out of as ideas come to me, but I was recently confronted with how many unused notebooks I have, so I'm currently in my no-buy era till I get that under control 😅
Great video, love the channel! I also have many different notebooks/journals. Which ones do you keep with you on the daily?
A catch-all and a commonplace book go with me all the time 🫡🫡🫡🙌🤝
📓 I typically use 2-3 notebooks. The first one is a journal for my private life. It covers everything from thoughts and feelings, nutrition, hobbies, reading stats, vacations, etc. The second one is a journal for my work life. I'm an independent vocal coach, singer and blogger and journaling about all these various hats, all the responsibilities, my own vocal training as a singer, reviews about my work weeks so I can become a better coach, event plan for my business, conference notes, blog schedule, writing ideas, etc. has been the single best decision in my entire career. Without a journal I'd be a mess and far less capable. The third one is a recent addition, a cahier notebook for writing practice. I'll probably merge this one with the job journal since there's a lot of overlap. For now a separate one works well just to get back into the habit of daily writing and potentially fueling my blogger self.
I use a two notebook system. One for like dairy\long thinkings and then a small one for on the go keeping track of dates/trackers and such. 📚📚📚
📓📓 definitely a notebook junkie. Im eating right now and im excited to go get yet another pocket journal to stock up on.
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🧙🏻♂️this year I’ve started actually keeping up with a daily notebook. It started as just to do lists but I’ve been wanting to learn how to draw so it’s become a to do list on one side, and a small sketch on the other side. Hoping to eventually start branching out to other notebooks as I develop the habit
I like to get binders and pads of paper to make big intricate bullet journals/diaries of just every little thing about my day to day. To do lists, daily affirmations, goals, etc, etc
📓 I've recently started using a notebook and these videos help me find new ways to incorporate my notebook in my day to day.
📓 I use a notebook for reading log, exercise tracking, to do list, quotes, dictionary, and sermon and bible study notes. I have one for daily carry/catch all, but I am not good at carrying it everywhere. Need to improve on that. The biggest benefit so far since using your system a few montha ago has been the exercise and reading.
I love a Travelers Notebook system and a five year diary. It’s been my daily go-to for years now.
📓 Love your videos!!!!
🙌🙌🙌🫡 thank you!
I Love the Idea of a hand book, Possibly because I’ve been thinking of doing some thing similar to leave behind for my sone when i pass on.
🙌🙌 would be so epic for him
Man I had the biggest system of notebooks with special ways of using them. It got to be too much. I started putting everything in an a4 size 1917 notebook with a b5 annual planner. It’s a mess, but I guess that’s how my brain works?
🧙 I have sooooo many notebooks for quotes, journal, diary, doodles, stories, lists, etc. I'm a notebook addict! LOL
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🧙♂️📓I love notebooks and have heaps of them. I really like the idea of a catch-all notebook, thank you.
I would like to hear your experience with the traveler's notebook system. I'm considering getting one -in regular size- for my common placing and EDC.
Still need to try and use mine. I've tried in the past and I should like them but I just don't for some reason
Magnificent moustache dude
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Hi Parker, quick question! With your pocket notebooks, how do you avoid bending them in your pocket when you're sitting down? Or do you just take them out of your pocket whenever you sit down?
I'm about to sound like an ad but I switch to a remarkable 2 and I've never been happier. Although I do still keep 2 other notebooks, any other notes I take on my remarkable.