THINGS TO PUT INTO YOUR NOTEBOOK

You’ve just purchased a notebook and have to idea how to use it. If that’s you, here’s some ideas to get you started.

  1. Photos
  2. Collected ephemera
  3. Sketches, or little paintings
  4. Stickers
  5. Impressions from rubber stamps
  6. Tasks
  7. Notes from appointments’
  8. Calendar entries/appointments
  9. Shopping lists
  10. Other lists, such as books to read or movies to watch
  11. Journal entries
  12. Daily log or diary entries
  13. Ideas
  14. Free writing/morning pages
  15. Index tabs to find stuff
  16. Index
  17. Table of contents
  18. Post-it or other sticky notes
  19. Tracking devices, like an AirTag, in case you lose it
  20. Your name and contact information, in case you lose it
  21. Ink tests/swatch
  22. Book notes, podcast notes, lecture notes
  23. Diagrams
  24. Quotes you like, and why you like them
  25. Recipes
  26. Collage
  27. CONNECTIONS and WORDLE solution steps
  28. Names of people you meet
  29. Scores/players from board games you have played

If you are wondering how to keep all of this information straight, you can get some ideas on how to organize a table of contents and an index here and here

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