I adore notebooks. I mean, who doesn’t? But they have to be a particular type of notebook with particular qualities for certain tasks. Whether that is the thickness of the paper, the smoothness of the paper, whether the notebook lies flat when opened to encourage fast note-taking or are just lovely to hold.
I have tried using lots of notebooks in the past. Each notebook could be used for anything so I ended up losing information and writing as I didn’t know where I’d written it. Then I moved on to just one notebook. This was fine but as my writing developed and new projects came along I found I was wanting more notebooks again - but for specific projects.
Here in this video I give a mini-review of the notebooks I used in 2019 along with all the details of the notebooks I’ll be using in the first part of 2020.
[For a more in depth video about the Leuchtturn 1917 B5 Softcover then click on the link and for an in depth look at the Lemome then there’s a video for that one, too!]
If you're looking for ideas on how to fill your journals and notebooks I am sharing a journal flip through to show how I fill mine. My journals are often messy but each one has a definite purpose.
I use one journal as a writing bullet journal to track and log my writing and creative projects. I use another to plan my writing and creative tasks. I have others for particular writing projects such as my book proposal, essays and YouTube scripts. Then I have some simply to journal and to free up space in my head.
In this video I share each notebook I’ve used in the last six months. There’s a completed journal, a couple of new notebooks and I also share how my notebooks (and writing) have been affected by the recent pandemic