Is It Possible to Find Notebook Peace?

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Is it possible to find a proverbial notebook or a planner peace? Is there a perfect notebook or a system? Every system: codex, Filofax (rings) or discs have their advantages, but they all have their limitations.
How to find a system that works for you and brings you peace. Is it even possible to find it? Notebook peace is possible, but there's a nuance to it!
Timecodes:
0:00 - So many notebooks
0:30 - Is peace possible?
1:13 - Limitation
1:37 - Codex notebooks
3:12 - Filofax or Rings
4:52 - TN Notebooks
5:51 - Notebook peace

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@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

Have you found your personal notebook peace?

@planningandpowerlifting 2 ай бұрын

Pretty much. I utilize pocket notebooks for on the go, A5 for my desk of table, and I am setting up rings for reference and long term projects. I also use digital tools. My answer is that there isn't any one notebook that will do everything and that is okay.

@BogdanPelican Ай бұрын

Bro just try Everbook. This is an ultimate notebook peace for everyone, trust me. You can even try and create your own (that’s how i got into it)

@cind_h_er5717 Ай бұрын

I think it might be the ring system for me (having tried first codex, then string, then ring); but I've never tried passport size, and I really, really want to. Currently my favourite sizes are A5 for work, and A6 (squeezed into a Filofax Pocket size) for everything else because it feels more personal somehow.

@tortagialla 2 ай бұрын

Yup, I hVe a million notebooks … I cannot explain the obsession 😅

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

This is what I've learned, you can't explain this obsession to someone for whom a notebook is just a piece of paper, they just won't understand. Thank you for your comment, it's very nice to know that I am not alone in this :)

@charliecharlie2288 Ай бұрын

I’ve had over 100 Filofaxes and leather journals and still wasn’t happy lol

@charpress Ай бұрын

So happy to find out others have notebook obsession. I’m always searching for the perfect one.

@Noteability Ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment. There are more people like you and I than we can even think!

@alwaysmoody800 25 күн бұрын

Notebooks , Pens ( under $20 ) , Pocket Knives & Pocket Flashlights ...a few of my favorite things .

@Jenscraftsandjournals 2 ай бұрын

I have learned, I just enjoy variety.😁 I have peace in enjoying a good variety of quality notebooks and planners! I agree with you!

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

It's really nice to know that there are a lot of people with the same addiction )

@dragonrain3343 Ай бұрын

Would you please make a video on the layouts and systems you use in all your various notebooks? I too am a huge fan of notebooks and have a growing collection. I would be interested to see your work flow and styles for your notebooks and perhaps put some into practice within my own.

@Noteability Ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment! Yes, I am planning to have a video to show my current system that I use.

@cind_h_er5717 Ай бұрын

I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel. You articulate your ideas really well. And I love your handwriting. It's nice to meet you, so to speak.

@Noteability Ай бұрын

Thank you for your nice comment!

@DunkelRuhrOutdoors 2 ай бұрын

Same struggle here but it's good to see that I'm not the only one 😂

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

Oh, believe me, we are not alone. This itch of finding a perfect system is very strong :-D

@tiffanyliu9841 Ай бұрын

Im so happy to share the obsession with y'all. I love notebooks because it makes me feel like i pull out info/feelings out of my head and make them tangible in the book in front of me. It can also give me distance from some ideas and think more objectively. My notebooks create peace for me 😅😅

@Noteability Ай бұрын

Welcome to the club of the notebooks addicts :-D

@implozia1360 15 күн бұрын

I am still seeking the middle road between "rings" and the "strings", as you say, but in a different way. By crafting my way through wacky ideas like a "deconstructed" journal (like Treasure Books made, a yt channel on junk journaling, highly recommend!), to making my own system such as a book cover with a bajillion elastic strings meant to hold smaller, less bound signatures of paper for the closest I can get to the level of customizing rings have, but in folded paper format rather than single sheet. There is a way, people, it might just be highly unorthodox and highly DIY. I saw some amazing ideas on YT and genuinely recommend surfing around!

@Noteability 14 күн бұрын

Thank you, I will definitely check that channel.

@arguchik 2 ай бұрын

Nodding along. I have 3 different notebooks that I use daily. Or 4, depending on how you count one of them. I have an A6 Hobonichi with the little weekly supplement they make to accompany it (I need a weekly view, and I like the vertical weekly layout for time tracking). I keep the weekly supplement in the back pocket of my Hobonichi cover so the two books travel together. I use the daily Hobonichi pages for personal notes and observations. Then I have an A5 notebook (lined) for daily writing practice - I write four pages of longhand "automatic" prose every day. And I have a B6 slim notebook (grid) for taking work notes, reading notes, and other stuff like shopping lists, packing lists, etc. My favorite A5 notebook is the Seven Seas Writer from Nanami Paper. For the B6 slim notebook, I go back and forth between the Nanami Cafe Note and Midori MD notebooks.

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

Great selection. What I like about notebooks is their variety, anyone can find a system or a brand that works for them.

@sal9371 2 ай бұрын

Oh my friend, thank you for this sharing. Peace is the perfect term to describe our torment! I too have come to your conclusion, we just have to embrace our cross. I subscribed to your channel.

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

Yes, this torment of finding the perfect system, or the perfect notebook and as soon as we think we found it there's always at least one "but"... Thank you for your comment and subscription

@Miamis4me305 2 ай бұрын

On point! I keep thinking I've found the perfect system and it lasts two months at best. Now I've narrowed it down to Midori TN Passport. Then I thought, heck maybe Field Notes in a TN pocket size!. Of course I just received and waiting on some inserts but I still love the Midori cover better. Argh... the struggle is real. Then to make matters even more interesting I found my old old old Franklin Covey pocket ring binder cover and I've fallen in love all over again with rings! Which by the way, Franklin sells storage boxes for the used ring binder planners. That may solve your problem with how to store your used planner pages.

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

I had been thinking about using Field Notes in a pocket sized TN, but as you said, "the Midori cover is better". There's something to the feel and touch of the things that we use. Personally, I have to enjoy the product that I am using. Maybe that's why this struggle is very real :-) Otherwise it would have been, "Meh... I am just using a pocket notebook from Walmart. It get things done" P.S. The more I use my FIlofax the more I am falling in love with the system and now I really want to buy a pocket size Filofax

@Miamis4me305 2 ай бұрын

@@Noteability me too. Thinking of giving Franklin Covey another go around. The storage boxes are a great organizational idea. My Midori is original not Traveler’s. It just feels great. Nothing like it.

@samb8860 Ай бұрын

God bless mate! Love seeing the sermon note books and bible notes!

@Noteability Ай бұрын

Praise the Lord! I hope you are born again!

@samb8860 Ай бұрын

@@Noteability I am brother!

@XtianApi 2 ай бұрын

How do I balance a regular TN, full size, and an a6 hobonichi? I'm wanting to make an A6 hobonichi and a full size notebook work but I also really love my Travelers regular. I'm so close. It's adhd, bipolar depression and trying to fill a hole in me. Oh, I also have a notebook about journals, pens, inks, and generally toys dilemma.

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

I like the leather of the Traveler's Company notebooks, especially when it's been used. I sold my regular one and now I regret that decision. I have been using my passport TN for about 7 or 8 years, and the feel of the leather is so great

@serramann9325 Ай бұрын

What kind/brand is is the larger brown leather notebook(cover) shown in this video?

@Noteability Ай бұрын

It's a Saddleback Leather Moleskine Cover saddlebackleather.com/leather-moleskine-cover-medium/

@CJBradley 26 күн бұрын

I've tried many and have never found the perfect type, size or paper some half used some discarded some not yet used, cheap ones and not so cheap and no one notebook has done it all, so the search continues. : (

@Noteability 24 күн бұрын

Have you tried to remove all the notebooks from the access but one and just use it until it's full? But make sure it's not a huge one, maybe 40-60 sheets max

@Dee.yankeeintexas Ай бұрын

All the notebooks … and the pens

@Noteability Ай бұрын

I agree... And with the pens parts as well, plus the pencils

@PlanYourOneLife 2 ай бұрын

Ugh, it's like you stabbed me in the gut when you said that there is no perfect notebook. 😮😅 Honestly, I realized this a while ago. I like hard covered, soft covered, ones with thin paper (TRP) and ones with thick paper, too. It all depends on what I plan on using it for. I usually don't like using filler paper in binders a as my notebook because it is more of a pain to store later.

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

I am sorry for the stub :-) It hurt me as well, even though I LOVE notebooks, I've been trying to find that holy grail notebook for a long time. I have a confession to make... The more I use ring planners the more I love them, and the only thing that keeps me from switching 100% is the problem with storing those leafs.

@PlanYourOneLife 2 ай бұрын

@@Noteability Maybe you can store them inexpensive covers? You can keep what you need and not have to use your nicer covers to store them.

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

I will experiment with this for sure

@Sophopolis Ай бұрын

Try tying strings through the holes? I'm a travelers notebook fiend but if I had the hole punch leafs of paper I would tie a lil twine to make it a 'book' and store them in a box

@Noteability Ай бұрын

@@Sophopolis thank you for your suggestion. Recently I found out about the treasure tags and the way they can be used. Super cool!

@DunkelRuhrOutdoors 2 ай бұрын

I use a system of 3 books, a field notes EDC, a small moleskine daily diary and an bigger brain dump A5 book for everything

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

Seems like a very solid system. The best part in this adventure is that tomorrow, this "perfect" system might be a completely different than you use today. I've come from a single notebook to a combination of a passport size TN + a regular one, to the current system with a lot of different notebooks. Who knows what I will be using a year from now. That's a blessing and a curse at the same time

@ChanceCooper125 2 ай бұрын

If all I’m doing is journaling I can be at peace with a Traveler’s Company Passport with some fountain pen friendly inserts that I make myself. Drawing is different but I don’t really want to mix drawing with journaling anyway

@Noteability 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, I am with you. I don't like to mix up all the things in one notebook.