I have a lot of notebooks.
I’ve written before about using a Bullet Journal for capturing my day to day thoughts and ideas, but that is just the tip of the notebook iceberg.
These are my ‘currently in use’ notebooks. Some I use every day, even multiple times a day, others I use periodically.
Top left: my 2023-2024 Bullet Journals. These are Leuchtturm1917 notebooks (this is an Amazon affiliate link)
Top centre: ‘work’ notebooks - a Commonplace book, a book of words, and a notebook of business-related plans
Top right: my book notebooks. Lists of books! (Possibly my favourite notebooks)
Middle left: newly created ADHD and autism journals. In the wonderful Flame Tree notebooks (available here and here - the second link is an Amazon affiliate link)
Middle centre: various notebooks for therapy related issues, including notes from my therapy sessions and notes from my IFS ‘family meetings’
Middle right: Examen notebook, spiritual journal and some notebooks on various ‘woo woo’ subjects
Bottom left: relationship notes, including notes I make on The Gottman Institute courses and resources
Bottom centre: practical notebooks, including my music practice journal and allotment journal
Bottom right: my ‘empty my head’ journal. Mostly a book of whinging
So, that feels like an embarrassing glimpse into my life. I like writing. And making lists and plans. And gathering notes and quotations on a wide variety of topics. I am an external processor who tends to keep most people at arm’s length. In order not to overburden those with whom I am willing to verbally process, I write A LOT.
Do I have other notebook and journal keepers among my readers? Are you an external or internal processor (I’ve no idea if there is research to back up this distinction…)? What are your favourite notebooks, either in terms of brand (mine are the Flame Tree ones) or in terms of content (mine are the book lists ones)?
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Good to see you, and thanks for sharing your beautiful notebook collection! I also have a home buried in notebooks. I'm currently in a dotted notebook phase, but manage to collect notebooks of all kinds. Somehow, I always end up returning to my trusty Moleskines, though...
I write a lot but mostly on a computer. I do have one nice notebook currently in use for my morning pages (three A4 side of stream of consciousness writing done first thing in the morning, basically my equivalent of your whinge diary!) and a couple that I scribble things in for work - they’re useful as I have a shoddy working memory. I’m fascinated to know what woo woo you’re into but also understand if you’d rather not say. Xx