So You Are Starting a New Notebook, Help!

[amberleadavis]

So, who besides @Runnin_Ute actually started the new notebook?

[mhguda]

Well, I started a new one about three weeks ago... About half the page size that I'd been using recently: one of TMLee's four seasons. Very happy to be here, although I did also like the one I was using before, which has the new TR 52gsm paper.

This one has the old paper. Both are very pleasant to write on, so I don't analyze the experience - just enjoy it.

[arcfide]

57 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

So, who besides @Runnin_Ute actually started the new notebook?

 

My previous Midori MD A5 lined and stapled notebook was filled up with my lists, so I started a new one not too long ago to go along with a new "productivity system" that I've been trying. 

[Misfit]

I started a Markings bulletling log notebook that I got at Office Depot.  It works with the stub, italic and broad nibs I’ve tried so far. The spiral rings are from a notebook I had behind it when I took the photo. 
 

[essayfaire]

My BJ ran out mid-month so I have just started a new notebook.  I hate it when they run out in the middle, and I already have my monthly log set up in the old notebook; I end up running with two for the remained of the month as I'm not going to take the time to redo all my monthly trackers, etc. The new notebook is like the one I just finished as it came in a two pack- soft-sided(which I like for the lightweightedness, but not for the durability), good paper, pre-done index which I don't like yet numbered pages which I do....

[inkstainedruth]

Well, recently (just over a month ago) I started the new volume of Morning Pages journal.  And a week or two ago the local Dollar Tree had 3-packs of mini-composition books back in stock -- just in time for me to be able to start the new expenses record for when I went to the Baltimore-Washington Pen Show last weekend.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Runnin_Ute]

Have started two in March (thus far), there is a chance for another.

 

 

On March 1, a anthracite gray Leuchtturm1917 dot grid in A5, this past week an Apica CD11 (A5) got started. I suspect a Field Notes will get started between now and April 1st. In fact, not later than April 1.

[Misfit]

It’s been over a year since we talked starting notebooks. I’m five days away from finishing the page a day notebook. It’s a Leuchtturm 1917 Copper notebook. I’ve noticed pens seem to look good with it. The successor is going to be a Leuchtturm Berry color for the page a day. I have my doubts that every pen I use will look as good with it. Not that it matters, just something I’ve been thinking about. 
 

This leads to a new question. Do you use the same pen in a new notebook?  Maybe it’s for a month? I once had a pen per season in a Travelers Notebook Weekly plus Memo insert. In my page a day, I choose a pen of the day. The notebook ends up full of color. I do make a beginning of the month page. 
 

 

I goofed on this page as I put the date. I was going to start my page a day when I remembered it was the start of the month. Plus I need to add a seasonal sticker or two. The calendar stamp is by Midori, as is the sticky note. 
 

I do need to add to the Table of Contents. I’m going to add when each month starts, plus anything worth being in the Table of Contents.

[Stompie]

On 5/19/2024 at 7:55 AM, Misfit said:

 

This leads to a new question. Do you use the same pen in a new notebook?  Maybe it’s for a month? 

 

 

 

Nope, I use whatever is close to hand - I usually have about 20 close to hand, excluding dip pens.

[Beechwood]

I start off with great intentions, one colour of ink and have some sort of control, like a New Years resolution, by Day 3 it is all a mess.

 

I am drawn to very old notebooks, unused I mean, or new notebooks that are connected to Formula One teams.

[Karmachanic]

For me new notebooks are a continuation of the previous notebook.  Stalogy for the most part, with an occasional TR 52/68.  I ink three or four pens, and write three/four sheets with each.   Replace with different pens and inks as required.

 

For morning pages a 300 sheet Miguelrius. and a newly dedicated Jinhao 159 F, filled with dedicated Perle Noir.  Got to get through that 500ml bottle.

[Misfit]

Today, I’m on the last page of the copper Leuchtturm. It will be sad to see that metallic wonder go. Not in the trash or anything. Just go as in the notebook to write the page a day. Berry is next. It could have been chocolate brown, or lime. But I opted to buy a lined berry while it was available.  I made the mistake of buying berry in dotted. The dotted lines are a bit closer. I’m using a purple dotted to write pens and inks with more examples of the ink. That’s how I know dotted would challenge my writing style over a page. 
 

I need to think about another option. Some days it’s easy to fill a page a day. Some days I might would like to go to the next page, but don’t. I need to use my Traveler’s Notebooks, so that might be the answer. 
 

I think I understand why morning pages would be separate from the daily.  

[knarflj]

On 5/19/2024 at 2:55 AM, Misfit said:

This leads to a new question. Do you use the same pen in a new notebook?  Maybe it’s for a month? I once had a pen per season in a Travelers Notebook Weekly plus Memo insert. In my page a day, I choose a pen of the day. The notebook ends up full of color. I do make a beginning of the month page. 

 

It depends on which notebook I'm writing in.  In my journal I usually switch colours every day, and use a different colour in the margin to record what I've been reading and watching.  In my notebooks that I use to actually take notes from books I'm reading, I try to use the same colour for all the notes on a given book, and then switch for the next book. 

 

On 5/23/2024 at 2:02 PM, Misfit said:

 I made the mistake of buying berry in dotted. The dotted lines are a bit closer. I’m using a purple dotted to write pens and inks with more examples of the ink. That’s how I know dotted would challenge my writing style over a page. 

 

I don't know if this would work for you, @Misfit, but maybe you could try not always writing on the dots, but sometimes using them as a guide for the middle of your letters, or the top of your lower case letters or something.  For instance, maybe you'd write on the dotted line for one line, then write under the next line of dots (aligning the top of your lowercase letters with the dots), then skip the next line of dots and write on the one under that.  Or whatever variant of that works with your pens and script.  That way you could space out your lines to accommodate larger writing while still benefitting from the dots.  

[Misfit]

@knarflj thank you for the suggestions on writing on dotted paper. I’ll try that sometime.

[knarflj]

On 5/26/2024 at 11:37 AM, Misfit said:

@knarflj thank you for the suggestions on writing on dotted paper. I’ll try that sometime.

 

You're welcome!  I hope one way or another you find your berry Leuchtturm a joy and not an irritant.

[AmandaW]

I began a new volume of my journal. It's another of the A4 Clairefontaine I have been using for many years. And, having ordered a lot found on clearance, will be until those run out! I get about 3 months per book.

 

I began an entirely new notebook a few months ago to keep notes on knitting. Tips. Ideas. Instructions I would forget. It's a J Burrows lined A5 hardcover picked up from the local office supply chain. Nothing special. It was among my stash, found when I decided, quite unplanned, that I needed a place to write such notes to keep them together.

 

I also now have A6 stapled notebooks that I use while knitting to checkmark rows and make notes on each project as I work. I'm on the second one already, using a page or two for each thing I make.

 

 

[Misfit]

I keep meaning to start a new notebook to put in some specific memories. I think I’m waiting for when I want to give it that attention.