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I started using a journal to relieve symptoms of ADHD. I keep a 5-star notebook from Walmart on me at all times and record what I am thinking when ideas happen and my ever-constant questions. When I need to write out my feelings, I switch to the 3rd person and tell myself a story about what I am experiencing to help me make sense of it. At the end of the week, I keep the best parts, record them, and analyze myself in a larger journal. It is a sketchbook that Walmart sells. I do this every Sunday afternoon, seeing it as a conversation between my past and future self.
I use one notebook at a time and do all of these in there. I take it everywhere to write ideas, thoughts, quotes, notes on books, life organization, and goals.
That's my favorite way to do it as well after trying many methods. It's nice to have everything in one place. Marking it with cheap tabs makes it easy to mark pages.
Notebook junkie since I was little kid. My dad was an industrial engineer, artist, photographer. He always had stacks of notebooks, drafting pencils artist pencils and pens in his desk and various sets of Cross pen & pencil sets, no we are not related to the Cross pens, haha. I always ran around as a kid with a leather binder my dad gave me and wrote in it when I was a kid. But my obsession with all things pen related began when I was in fourth grade and my 10th birthday my dad bought me my first Cross pen & pencil set ✒️📓📕
I'm probably not far off in guessing 25 notebooks, some filled, some unfinished, some untouched... but using one notebook for each word in your comment?
I love these videos. So much useful info instead of the usual "this is how I decorate my journal" I´ve found so far. So much info that I find myself taking notes on how to take notes.
Same! I’m actually using one of my thick passport sized notebooks to keep notes of all these great suggestions here. Kind of like a notebook for notebooks and sounds weird but I’m trying to collect all these inspirational ideas in one place or I’ll lose them.
I have started using more and more notebooks because of your videos. I have a catch all pocket notebook, a reading log of sorts, a Sunday sermon journal, and I’m starting a nature log too. It’s been such a breath of fresh air to step away from technology (IT by trade) and take a more analog approach to things. 🧙🏼♂️
What woman wouldn't want to see a love journal written before they met you. One of the defining moments in our relationship was my husband showing me his teenage sketchbooks. I wasn't in them, or even any projection of me but his heart was and I will never forget what it felt like to be invited in to that.
I really enjoy your content. Being a Marine Corps Veteran that has spent some time in Wounded Warriors-they taught me that carrying a notebook around and being able to log my day and reflect how that day went every evening is one of the best forms of therapy one can do for themselves. I have multiple different notebooks but really like the idea of an analog lifestyle. Keep up the great content! 📓
I use notebooks for memorizing concepts in detail. Each page acts like a note card which logically proceeds from the next. These are kept in my pocket and I then recite the information throughout the day, looking as needed. I'm currently memorizing chapter summaries for every book in the Bible, as well as memory verses for the chapters. I want to hold the entire book in summarized form within my mind.
📘🧙🏻♂️I use a catch all, a work log book / to-do daily book, a sketchbook for ideas, a daily journal for thought and feelings… I think the trick is to find a level that suits you… I tried bullet journaling but found I was spending more time filling it in than actually working or thinking so dropped that… thanks for the videos really enjoy them
I really like your videos on stuff like this, so much content about journaling is about productivity and optimising your time in quite a capitalistic way, while this is a lot more about living philosophically and intentionally - just feels a lot more sustainable and nourishing, it’s great
I'm so glad to hear this!! I'm studied philosophy and I want to share that, If I can slip in some productivity that can help, I will, but it's always going to be philosophy first
I now know your channel for a while and I knew that your obsessed with notebooks , but I am fascinated every time for which things you have a notebook. Like a "workout log", what!?
As someone who’s just getting started with the gym, I could see it being very useful. My experience with exercise is one based in intently listening to my body, something I took from practicing yoga for around 6 years. We all have little anatomical quirks that could make certain exercises unpleasant or even painful. It makes sense to note those sensations and work them out by trying a different technique or adjusting the grip. It also makes sense to write down measurements if that’s the sort of thing you care about.
I journal mostly... though I've had small books that I keep shopping lists, thoughts, poems I like in as well. I've also kept a couple of fermentation, brewing, canning, and more recently sewing logs. I also started doing sketchbooks when I took a water media course in college. My notekeeping methods are super organic, by which I mean supremely disorganized. I just discovered your videos and am excited to see what more I can do to maybe hone my skills a bit.
This is my absolute favorite video! My own journey started when I came across Tiago Forte's second brain concept, then I wasted months going from app to app, building workflow after workflow and not achieving any results. I then discovered the analog Zettelkasten, and again, I wasted time obsessing over the system and workflow without achieving anything. I think notebooks are the answer for me. I want to start a RUclips channel, but I need to do some discovery around the niche and content so that sounds like a great use for a deep thinking journal. I also started carrying a pocket notebook for a catch all, and I am using my plasma donation money this week to order some more Leichturnn notebooks for topical commonplace books so I can start actually working on this huge stack of books I've been buying over the months.
Gosh, that was extensive! New subscriber here. I am 58 and have kept notebooks/diaries all my life. I find that every so often I need to re-organize depending on my lifestyle, which changes. To lighten my load I keep thoughts in Obsidian, Experiences in Diaro (with photos) and an art journal (with drawings), and I Self-master with two calenders (work and private), a bunch of lists (to do, reading, to buy, etc) and a bujo for tracking habits I want to develop (mostly health-related). It is fun to browse through notebooks from 20-30 years ago, and see how not just I, but the world has developed. I enjoy everything digital, it has made the world more accessible to me, which I appreciate so much! 😊
Thank you for mentioning the smythson notebooks - this was the perfect cherry on top of the gift I’m giving my fiancé on our wedding day, he’s a writer and a film buff too.
Your channel is incredible Mr. Parker, I just discovered your channel by accident and I don't regret following your content, you're incredible, keep making these types of videos
🤔📓 I'm here because I've been trying to simplify and declutter my digital life and write things down by hand more often, since I'm convinced there are mental benefits to doing so. I'm just trying to get ideas on how to build my notebook system. It has always felt overwhelming because the sky is literally the limit on what you can do with notebooks, and I haven't always been the best at actually writing in them habitually. Thanks for the suggestions!
I'm still trying to figure out a method, but I think I narrowed down what types of notebooks would be most practical for me after watching this. The concept of a soliloquies journal, specifically, is the exact thing I've been trying to accomplish, but didn't quite have the word for it and had forgotten your mention of it in a previous video. Very helpful. Thanks again, man.
📓 I’m a fountain pen enthusiast, I am also an on and off lifelong journaler (mostly emotional processing). Now I’m obsessed w types of paper. I also keep commonplace books, quotes, poetry books, affirmations, study and book notes. I write songs, and prose. I love your names for your categories, how detailed they are detailed, and how varied. Fun! I name my different journals, most recent name.. Book of no rules. I suppose it is a catch all. See, notebook 🧙♂️ ha
Profound thanks, brother! I'm a polymath who's crippled by severe ADHD. I'm 33, and I would've become a polymath like you if I only weren't so lethargic all the time. I have a lot of notebooks, too, that I've bought over the years, but they're all blank. Thanks for motivating me again! I'm definitely going to incorporate some of your ideas. I've been wanting to have a dictionary book for over a decade now. I have had a couple, but I failed to be consistent and stopped recording words after a while. As a teenager or a pre-teen, I recall having a tall notebook for useless info/trivia. I recall cutting and pasting clippings from magazines. Good old days! Again, I wasn't consistent, and I stopped doing that after a while. I'm always very low on energy. Too low to even exercise. I used to be the best at taking notes in college. For some courses, I'd take notes by hand very quickly. But for others, I'd be too lazy to take notes. The most recent thing I've done is voice-recording class lectures. But I have almost never listened to them later to take notes. 😢 I was going through your recent philosophy books for beginners video (again) today and was planning to get some of those books and start reading them. I made it to the end, and I watched everything. Looking forward to the proverbs! 🧙♂️
Fellow ADHD'er here who has thousands of blank notebooks under their belt. Paper notebooks don't tend to work for people with ADHD because as soon as we set it down or put it into a drawer, we forget about it. It's just much better to do things digitally. Apple notes is great, Notion, Obsidian, and One Note are also good options. The ability to search is a Godsend for ADHD.
@@baejay798 i wouldnt agree with this. ill give some methods and whatnot when i get home and have more time but we can make it work, and i find its actually far superior once you do find a working system. more explanations later though lol
ok so, i have returned lol. bullet journaling in the way originally defined by Ryder Carroll was create specifically because he has adhd. thats a great system, although some just use it as a calendar. thats moreso how i use it. i put notes and things on notecards. i can go more into that if you want to use a system like that for notes. but ids say bullet journaling and also common place books if you want something even simpler. if you feel lost or need help, feel free to ask buddy :)
I'm a 90s kid. I did try writing on my laptop, and I liked it for a few days, but it was quite annoying to write on a screen. I prefer pen and paper/a notebook - old school is the best school!
📓🧙🏽I LOVE notebooks. Specifically those I can insert into leather journal covers. I have a pocket leather journal with three inserts, a standard Traveler’s Notebook sized leather journal with two inserts and an A5 sized leather journal with one insert. In the pocket leather journal I have one insert I use as my bullet journal, another insert I use as a “catch all” notebook, and an insert I use as a reading log (which I recently started after watching your reading log video). In the standard sized Traveler’s Notebook journal, I have an insert I use as a common place notebook and an insert I use as a diary. Lastly, in my A5 sized leather journal, I have an insert I have been trying to figure out what to do with. This video gave me lots of great ideas! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video.
(📒) I started writing/journaling at the age of 10. It was more of a diary than anything, and it was mostly nonsensical ramblings of a young child. But as the years grew by, I grew fond of writing and just collecting and assessing my thoughts. Currently, I've only been writing for half a decade, but it has already helped me so much-from helping me realize the kind of person I am, realizing how my mind works, whom I wish to be in the future, and etc. And thanks to this video and channel, I now know what to call my notebooks and how to differentiate my journals, from my catch-it-all, and etc. Thanks so much, ParkNotes!
📓 I’m kind of the opposite of you in how I notebook: there’s one for pretty much everything. Class notes (doing my second masters in theology) are in their own books, as is any fiction writing project. But my personal life gets one notebook. It’s my planner, diary, reflection journal, prayer journal, reading log, movie/show log… it’s like the paper version of me and my mind and it goes with me everywhere in a great leather cover. I also want to take this chance to thank you for making these videos. I found your channel while looking for some inspiration about how to better organize and use my notebook, and came across your video about soliloquies. You’re pretty inspiring, Parker! This one gives me some great ways to think about my personal writing. Please make that video about a personal handbook! And I’d also love to know where you studied theology. Keep up the good work, Notebook Sage and Wizard. 🧙🏼♂️
I have a primary notebook that have todo tasks, weekly planner, accounts & reminders. I used to have a two other notebooks which I was unable to manage, I was never able to stick to a topic for them it could be because I was just starting out and this kind of categorization takes time albeit after watching your videos It is now clearer to me how can i use those differently and effeciently. Thank you for this video.
I've adopted a simple system: - Catch all journal/diary: Literally just unload my brain into this one. Basically everything (except my other notebook stuff) goes here. Plans, thoughts, feeling, musings, etc. - workout/training log: self explanatory. I know we have apps for this, but I just like physically writing it all down. - everyday carry pocket notebook: for catching stuff when I'm out and about that I needa remember. Plus things like shopping lists and dates/appointments I shouldn't be forgetting. - Manuscript/compendium/commonplace thingo: I just transfer my scribble of annotations from the books I'm reading just to try to retain some of that info. It's messy as hell, but that's a reflection of me as a person and I'm fine with it.
🧙♂️. I actually watched this video 2 times and took notes. You were right…keeping the catch all has broadened my long hand writing into a few notebooks. My newest is morning pages and it has been life changing! Thank you for the video!
I just started using notebooks because of your advocacy. I'm keeping it simple and using only one. I don't think I can handle anything more than that. It'll mostly be gleaned and self-generated thoughts. Thanks for this!
8:40 I started doing this at the beginning of the year with a notebook and folio my GF got me as a gift. I feel like its helped me retain and analyze what I'm reading by a considerable margin. Its half journal and half commonplace book. As I'm reading the book i will write down interest or poignant quotes. Once I'm done I write my "review" expanding on the quotes i captured previously
Thank you for making great videos. 📓I love to carry a pocket notebook everyday as a catch all for thoughts & to do's as well as a seperate notebook at work for task & time management.
So happy I stumbled onto your videos- really helped me get focused on organizing my notebooks as I have many with Hodge podge thoughts scattered everywhere📓
I keep one notebook that is like a hybrid commonplace book/journal/project book, but I keep everything, EXCEPT for chores, groceries, appointments and finances. For chores and groceries I use a tiny pocket notebook I always have with me and/or a widget list on my phone. For appointments I use my phone calendar, and for finances I have a dedicated budget planner. So I have my commonplace/journal, a tiny pocket notebook, a budget planner and my smartphone. I think more than this would overwhelm this. One more thing I like to make is lists, and just categorizing stuff in a way that is easy to search and compare, so for that I do use Excel, and compliment it with Obsidian to expand on the topics Im making lists about.
Hi, thank you so much for making this video and it has broaden my view on how and why the way I am. It made me realize that I was already doing this at the start of high school when I had no friends and someone to talk to because most of them are really busy and only get to talk at a specific time of the day. Though, I didn't write my philosophical thinking but the patterns match from the way you talk about philosophy. I get bullied when I talk about philosophical thinking out even at home because they didn't like most of the truth I wanted to convey for them and wanting to connect as a kid because I was so lonely that all I can do is think at school staring at beautiful pink blue sky as I think. It may sound like dissociation but know at that time cellphones are prohibited and being quiet is a must.
Just to add more appreciation, it made my thinking notes organized and I'm so glad I found your channel because I'm finding the ways to fix my catch all book, keep up the good work. It was messy and I happen to find myself needing it to be perfect in each page, hence skipping a lot of blank papers for that specific subject then finds it not being able to finish. I find this annoying breaking pattern to go back and fourth from going all for one to one for all because I'm in between organized and decluttering maniac. To going in a note app to traditional. It could be a perfectionism buts it's only for me to read so I want to make it easier for future me to read without having the hassle to go and where to find that specific page. And so too, I learned to book bind and recycle to stop the broken pattern. By both of your help in this video, I can rearrange and declutter the papers myself. I have finally reach the maximum level of a notebook and bookworm lover. This makes me feel as if I have discovered the complete life cycle of a book, haha. Thanks again! I hope this can give you an idea to organize, though I see you like to collect the journals instead.
🧙♂️I always enjoy your content, you have motivated me to get back to reading and philosophy which has helped me out of a deep spiral of depression due to being laid off. Always love to hear your ideas, as for me I have been keeping a catch all for awhile and have started branching out to other types of notebooks as I have been learning more!
I have my notebooks going all the way back to the early nineties. Thanks for your videos they help me think more deeply about the way I collect information.
I have a Leuchtturm pocket for philosophical ramblings/monologues and their Bullet Journal 2 for organization/daily reflections. I hope each will help me reach my goals. I definitely need an A5 for the philosophical thoughts because the pocket is filling up quickly 😂
I love the idea of a love journal, I've done that since I was quite young with letters in a box, but I burn them every few years when I feel I'm not the same person who wrote them. I'm glad to know others do similar things and I'm not entirely strange for it.
🧙♂️Catch all is definitely a great starting point for everything. I’ve always struggled trying to place my daily tasks both personal and work related, trying to figure out what goes were. Luckily this year I got a planner that was just monthly view and notes. Honestly it works more than anything from the previous years. Also have a blank 240pg notebook as my diary. Used to have a daily dairy with dates written and honestly stopped using it because it came with the pressure of filling up the entire page. Blank notebook allows me to write however much I want for the day sometimes half a page, sometimes 2 lines. No guilt whatsoever. I can use it cover to cover so I don’t have to discard it yearly. And somehow I managed to be consistent and it motivates me to keep writing daily.
Brother, you've changed my life. I've been in and out of logging collections for years. I've got sooo much going on in my mind and gotta get it out but never had a systematic way to process and categorize data. I was trying to put it all in one notebook. It was either too small and clumsy or too large and not portable. But you have removed the guilt of having multiple notebooks 🤣Specifically with the catch-all pocket notebook. I've fused my bullet journal with a catch-all in a pocket size and it has changed everything. And now I can leave all those hefty exegetical thoughts at home, tucked nice and neat in their own notebooks. Thanks!!
This is the best video on that topic. I will be using 3 Notebooks. One for thoughts ( personal and collected ) so it will contain quotes, information, and my insights on ideas to know thyself The second one will be for experiences. Daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual reflection. Reviewing my progress and a diary, I will ask myself what I did well. How would I do that thing differently? The last one will be for self-mastery (goals, tasks, time blocking ) and also it will be my catch-all as it is a pocket notebook.
📓📗📔📘📙📒I'm a crazy notebook person. Bujo, philosophy notes, physics notes, memories I need to work through. And morning journal. Also ideas, for both stories or business plans.😂
I've a bujo, a weekly organizer, journal notebook, personal size TN, Bible study/prayer journal and several that I haven't started yet but have ideas for. TY for sharing your philosophy.
Mate what a fantastic and comprehensive look at notebooks. Really enjoyed this and found it incredibly helpful. It was nice to reflect on why I keep notebooks and what I am trying to get out of it. It was also interesting to see some uses I hadn't thought of. Thanks for sharing!
🧙♂️The same but in digital + random notebook. When I need to disconnect or write in class I use physical paper. Then everything goes in a photo online or to the place it belongs (google sheets, calendar, tasks, notion, drive, keep). The thing is to actualize them when reviewing. I need to take another photo on that and delete the previous one 😂 💤.
📓 junkie. Journal with a prompt every day. Then note taking for work. Then, a notebook for tasks and thoughts and quotes. Just picked up a set of small notebooks to organize myself better for the upcoming year. Thank you for your help and work.
📓 journaler out of necessity. With my autism and adhd my head is always full, overwhelmed, and journals give me structure, a place to offload the brain brees and actually engage with thoughts and what not that usually fly me by in my head. I keep a morning page journal, a Companion journal that records my reading logs & book notes as well as thoughts and such throughout the day, a gender journal where I think on my gender experience and how my transition affects it, creative writing notebook for some daily creativity as well as one for the world I'm building in TTRPG, just to name a couple. I really love the way you talk about notebooks and related topics, keep them going 👌
📓 i am a massive notebook nerd. i believe in the commonplace book and im completely partial to Midori's MD Notebook [A5] Grid. having the most satisfying paper and pen to write with and to dump out my thoughts, ideas, plans all in one place has been such a pleasure
In your personal notebook/handbook you should include how to set up personal protocals. I've been working on including some here and there (quite a few from Hubermanlab) with varied success but the idea of a dedicated book for this sounds like it would be a great help. I definitely want to see that video!
📓 📔 📒 the way I notebook is doing a Diary, work schedule, about my list to do , list of goals , a list of skincare and about other topics I want to document my notebook is so chaotic
I have tons of notebooks and love the whole idea of writing down everything you do but I just never pull the trigger on starting. I love all the writing you do and the idea behind it but I think I don't have that much interesting stuff going on to write down. Awesome videos, keep it up.📓📓📓📓📓
Oh, thank you for ending with a "catch all" notebook! I'm just starting out, and all those notbooks were making me dizzy. Now, I will track what I'm capturing, so to know what I'm interested in documenting so to start my notes collection. I've learnt a lot from your channel. Thank you 😊
📔📓📓I use a journal (for Scripture reading/book notes/ journal journal/ letters/ meditation, and prayers), a catch all, and a pocket proverbs notebook. Using these has drastically improved my thought processing and is also great for my spare time instead of the doom scroll (which I learned through your videos). I've always used a journal since I was a young lad and now learning about various other methods and notebook uses has been great for me mentally and spiritually. I really enjoy your content and also listen to Parker's Pensées... a ton!
Random Question: I've used a Bullet Journal for years to keep track of what I get done at work each day, and I intend to keep this system for that purpose. However, I really want to begin a commonplace book or zibaldone journal. I like the idea of having sections to categorize my thoughts. I want them more organized and more easily accessible than they currently are. But I struggle with how much room to give each category. What if I go over or don't fill it up. That might be my Autism speaking...but the struggle is real. How do you recommend overcoming this? I don't want a thousand different journals, just a well organized one or a couple. One more note...I hate 3 ring binders, and I want to keep these notes by hand, not digitally. Thanks for any input you may have...maybe it's a topic for a different video in the future.
@clocha_cora I hate three ring binders too haha they are no good. If you're keeping a Zibaldone then no need for categories just toss it all in. If you're keeping a commonplace book, just come up with the categories or "commonplaces" after the fact. Write the quote and try to abstract out the best category for it: love, justice, romantic love, poetic justice, friendship: make amends, whatever, and then as you add new quotes see if they can fit under any of your already established commonplaces and if not then make a new one. I think that should work well
Thanks for the advice. I'm thinking about using a Zibaldone journal with an index in the back. That let's me avoid having predetermined sections that may or may not get used or overused and still be organized and efficient in finding what I'm looking for. Here's hoping that works for my brain. I realized tonight I also have a catch-all journal I already keep in my purse for sermon notes or interesting thoughts, a file on my phone for notes about the book I'm writing, a prayer journal/personal reflection journal and a small dotted journal I use to sketch out my designs for tiny houses. So, what's one or two more journals? 😂 Blessings to you and your family.
This was SO HELPFUL!! thank you so much 📓 🧙 I was busy taking notes in my catch all while watching and took a screenshot of your mind map for future reference. This is another one of your videos I’m going to need to watch more than once as there is *SO* much helpful info in it! I take notes of pretty much everything, but they are really disorganised, so this is super helpful to think about how I can organise them to make them more helpful. I use a bullet journal, a long form journal (you would term it a diary) an A5 catch all for meeting notes, ideas, notes from phone calls etc. There were two things that jumped out at me, the journal questions of what happened, how did I feel about it and THEN the extra what action did i take and how was it received. I have added what could I do differently as well. The other thing was “what am I going to use this notebook for?” I bought two new notebooks after watching your deep thinking journal video and then had analysis paralysis of what am i going to use this for? Which subjects? Why do I need to keep a commonplace book? A general one or a subject specific one? so this has made me pause and think before diving in. I would definitely be interested in a personal handbook video as I also have a bunch of index cards with notes on - mine are DBT skills and stuff so this idea really speaks to me. Thanks and keep up the great work. Love this channel.
📓📕 I have watched A LOT of videos on RUclips about notebook ideas. You by far have THE BEST content and channel for how to use my MANY notebooks. Thank you forgiving us fresh content about this subject.
notebook emoji from me, thanks for good content. i switched to 'catch all' notebook after watching some of your videos, and don't use phone for notes anymore. wish you luck in your work!
🧙♂️ thanks for all yhe ideas. I'm just getting started with notebooks/journals. I will probably start with the notebook that I write everything in and then expand out to others if I notice similar things that I want to have separately.
📓 I started journaling last year i go through hot and cold fazes, but I write down what I did that day, random thoughts, books I’ve read etc I don’t know if it works or why I do it but I think I do it to get my emotions out because in person I come across as very aloof and distant.
I do something similar with one notebook! Yes…I go through several notebooks in a year! I divide my sections by gluing on a paper tab to keep it organized and so I can find things easily ! I so appreciate your showing this! I look forward to seeing more of your work. I do separate into 2 different notebooks using one for church and studying Gods word and a separate notebook for work. My 3 notebooks go with me everywhere! It’s refreshing to know that someone else does this!!! Thank you!
2:30 The first line of my first notebook officially says "What do I need to live better today?" That's a good one for sure. Looking forward to giving this a shot.
I love these ideas. Everytime I watch your videos I think I buy a new notebook. 😂 I’ve tried many different types, but what currently works for me (and that I keep up): a long form “what happened in my day” journal; a commonplace book for the different online courses I take and nonfiction books I read; a personal proverbs collection; a book reading record (with reviews); a creative writing ideas book; and a spiritual practices journal (Centering prayer insights, mindfulness etc). Also I keep visual art diaries (a variety of sketchbooks for different art media). I used to also keep a cognitive diary for discussions with my psychologist when I was first working through anxiety and depression. I find handwriting personally necessary for retaining and assimilating the information long-term. Thanks again for another inspiring video. 😊
This is an amazing way to frame what I feel like is commonly referred to just as journaling. The catch-all and I'd even venture to say "trendy" term of "journaling" doesn't appeal to me, but the idea of books for specific purposes does, and I've gleaned many benefits from writing things out. Thanks for making this and for your work on making writing more approachable and desirable to those like me!
You are note🧙♂️book nut but i enjoy your videos and you help me kind of organize myself more everyday. I have many notebooks, and have had trouble trying to differentiate where to put everything...its overwhelming sometimes but you help me a lot. Thanks
📒📓 my first notebook I'd carry outside school was an old sketchbook I'd doodle in as a child. Years passed without analog note taking, and then in college, I EDCed a pocket notebook as a catch-all for the past 7 or 8 years. Lifesaver. And now I'm trying to start a Zibaldone/Manuscript Commonplace book.
🧙♂️ i use a modified minimalist bullet journal catch all with spreads (so not just a diary) as my note taking system. Im currently writing in a dotted pocket sized Leuchtturm1917 with the 003 Pigma Micron pen (I used plain pocket sized Moleskine notebooks back in the day.) I i haven't started any commonplace books yet but I do plan to sometime between now and starting university in 2025 (Bsc in Cognitive Science.) I always appreciate your channels and look forward to your future content!
Hello Park notes brilliant thanks for your contribution in this aspect this was a very fantastic and amazing video I loved very much to watch this video and I was eager to watch such like video so that I can somehow start my own writing and diary writing basically I love diary writing or what you say the notebook writing you are brilliant in the skill and I am blessed to watch this video I hope this will help me in my way out.
Thanks for this video! I like how you laid everything out. I will likely Make a flow chart of this for myself! As for how I use my notebook? I currently have a catch-all notebook but it is beginning to be unruly and I want to build things out from it. I currently use A5 as my catch-all but I may move to a fieldnotes and do as you recommended and disperse the information out from there. I use fountain pens so my small catchall must have fountain-pen-friendly paper (If you have any recommendations, I'd appreciate it). Great video!
Thank you for making this video. Since finding your channel, all of these different types of notebooks and their purposes got mixed up in my head. This video helps me apply these for my needs.
I am a total notebook junkie! My issue is how do I break them in? I just got a traveler's notebook set from Amazon with three notebook inserts and I had trouble thinking about how to best use them. So, thanks for posting this video! It was really helpful
I still haven't found what works for me. I've always been attracted to big A5 sized notebooks, which I like for journalling and that's what I have been doing since I was a teen.. but I don't want to carry heavy stuff around, so this system has worked cause I like to journal in the evening. To encourage myself writing down things in the day, I wanna get a smaller notebook to carry around. So simple, yet never committed to it. I enjoy minimalism and even though I like the idea of specific notebook for different things, and have tried that, that occupies too much physical space and I also get overwhelmed and never actually manage to keep up with all the notebooks. I need something simple and all in one, so I think just gonna get myself one notebook that is very portable and use it for everything - guess will need replacing often! I've been loving writing down things I'm grateful for. Such a boost of positivity, for some reason I've stopped but wanna go back to it asap!
My first and only notebook is a catch all. I feel like it’s perfect for just putting everything into it, so time will tell what kind of notebook categories make sense to one personally. Thank you very much for that nifty overview, that definitely helped a lot 🧙♂️ 📓
🤔📓 This video has been very helpful, you and your wonderful mustache really helped me understand different ways to take notes :) For a few years now I've been using my notes app as a diary to document my feelings and thoughts on anything that pops out (events, games, my mental health etc), but I've been looking at starting to do some stuff on a physical notebook alongside this. I recently got a beautiful notebook from my local bookstore, and after watching this I'm deciding to make it a catch-all. It was really nice seeing how you keep different notebooks, thank you for the guidance :)
📓 I love to collect my thoughts and see my self as a very novice writer and I am incredibly glad that I found your channel. I’ve always been a jumpy scatterbrained person who can’t sit still, but when I pull out my field note book and jot down some cool new ideas it really calms my mind and helps me to focus on what’s important in my life. I’m excited to see what you do in the future my friend 😄
🧙♀️ now i am a wizard. Thanks this was a great video. I use several notebooks, for different sorts of things. Most are topical journals and diaries. I do use a bujo and i agree it's much more of a diary than a journal, which is fine. The one thing I'm really lacking are the places for generated thoughts. I loved your breakdown on that. I just flipped my field notes sized notebook that I'm using as my commonplace notebook sideways so I'll have room to write the quote (or whatever) and have space to write my own thoughts beside it, turning it into a manuscript style. I also loved learning the dionaria (?) style- having a dialog with myself (out the various parts of myself) seems like an awesome idea. Thanks so much! ❤
📓thank you Parker. I am loving your videos and advice. You take it so far from the “here’s my to do list for the day” nothing wrong with lists, but I really appreciate your insight on how to use notes to collect and capture ideas.
📘📓I've been writing in notebooks and journals for almost 40 years. I have over 80 notebooks and journals. You could almost say I have an addiction to anything one can write in. I have many empty notebooks that I've had for years, so although I love writing in journals and notebooks; I love collecting them slightly more. As we speak, I have many started notebooks and journals. I am using one to study the Bible, one to write down prayers for my children, one to just write about my day, and quite a few to do art journaling. Great video!
🧙♀from tokyo, japan! i use 4 notebooks from daiso poket size notebooks to daiso(1coin) medium sized notebooks. one is where I write negative thoughts. another is where I write positive thoughts and sometimes habit tracker(post it) is attached. i write a blog based on my thoughts on quote so I have a notebook for brainstorming about it. the last one is a timeblock daily planner!! thx for the vid! keep going and you are cool!
🧙 a day journal: listing accomplishments; a to-do list journal: because I loose my paper list/back of envelope/post its and am tending to jot other ideas/meeting notes/grocery list, at current am thinking of tracking my daily spiritual disciplines in this after viewing your reading habit video. Thank you
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I started using a journal to relieve symptoms of ADHD. I keep a 5-star notebook from Walmart on me at all times and record what I am thinking when ideas happen and my ever-constant questions. When I need to write out my feelings, I switch to the 3rd person and tell myself a story about what I am experiencing to help me make sense of it. At the end of the week, I keep the best parts, record them, and analyze myself in a larger journal. It is a sketchbook that Walmart sells. I do this every Sunday afternoon, seeing it as a conversation between my past and future self.
This system sounds awesome and stress relieving! Definitely inspiring!
I use one notebook at a time and do all of these in there. I take it everywhere to write ideas, thoughts, quotes, notes on books, life organization, and goals.
A hybrid commonplace book. Nice!
Same, I’m too scattered and travel too much to have different notebooks for everything 🥲
Me too
That's my favorite way to do it as well after trying many methods. It's nice to have everything in one place. Marking it with cheap tabs makes it easy to mark pages.
Ok and when its full, what to do with it
Yes! Everyone must’ve thought I was so crazy at the cafe today when I pulled out notebooks nonstop out of my bag
Notebook junkie since I was little kid. My dad was an industrial engineer, artist, photographer. He always had stacks of notebooks, drafting pencils artist pencils and pens in his desk and various sets of Cross pen & pencil sets, no we are not related to the Cross pens, haha. I always ran around as a kid with a leather binder my dad gave me and wrote in it when I was a kid. But my obsession with all things pen related began when I was in fourth grade and my 10th birthday my dad bought me my first Cross pen & pencil set ✒️📓📕
Beautiful!
📓notebook buying junkie, below average at filling them out fully & organizing them… but working on it, which is one reason why I love this channel
I'm probably not far off in guessing 25 notebooks, some filled, some unfinished, some untouched... but using one notebook for each word in your comment?
🙌🙌🙌🫡💪🤝 really appreciate you! First channel member right here💪💪
@@ParkerNotes let’s go baby, keep up the phenomenal work my good dude
Same here - and often jumping around between multiple notebooks, journals, and sketchbooks to use lol. ^^;
As soon as I saw that beautiful masterpiece of a mustache, I knew he wasn't bluffing about being a philosopher.
I love these videos. So much useful info instead of the usual "this is how I decorate my journal" I´ve found so far. So much info that I find myself taking notes on how to take notes.
Same! I’m actually using one of my thick passport sized notebooks to keep notes of all these great suggestions here. Kind of like a notebook for notebooks and sounds weird but I’m trying to collect all these inspirational ideas in one place or I’ll lose them.
I have started using more and more notebooks because of your videos. I have a catch all pocket notebook, a reading log of sorts, a Sunday sermon journal, and I’m starting a nature log too. It’s been such a breath of fresh air to step away from technology (IT by trade) and take a more analog approach to things. 🧙🏼♂️
I love to see this!! Glad you're getting a bit of relief from tech!!
What woman wouldn't want to see a love journal written before they met you. One of the defining moments in our relationship was my husband showing me his teenage sketchbooks. I wasn't in them, or even any projection of me but his heart was and I will never forget what it felt like to be invited in to that.
I really enjoy your content. Being a Marine Corps Veteran that has spent some time in Wounded Warriors-they taught me that carrying a notebook around and being able to log my day and reflect how that day went every evening is one of the best forms of therapy one can do for themselves. I have multiple different notebooks but really like the idea of an analog lifestyle. Keep up the great content! 📓
Semper Fi brother!
I use notebooks for memorizing concepts in detail. Each page acts like a note card which logically proceeds from the next. These are kept in my pocket and I then recite the information throughout the day, looking as needed. I'm currently memorizing chapter summaries for every book in the Bible, as well as memory verses for the chapters. I want to hold the entire book in summarized form within my mind.
🧙♂️ This is the most comprehensive and analytical list of notebook types that I didn't know I was looking for. Thank you so much.
📘🧙🏻♂️I use a catch all, a work log book / to-do daily book, a sketchbook for ideas, a daily journal for thought and feelings… I think the trick is to find a level that suits you… I tried bullet journaling but found I was spending more time filling it in than actually working or thinking so dropped that… thanks for the videos really enjoy them
I really like your videos on stuff like this, so much content about journaling is about productivity and optimising your time in quite a capitalistic way, while this is a lot more about living philosophically and intentionally - just feels a lot more sustainable and nourishing, it’s great
I'm so glad to hear this!! I'm studied philosophy and I want to share that, If I can slip in some productivity that can help, I will, but it's always going to be philosophy first
I now know your channel for a while and I knew that your obsessed with notebooks , but I am fascinated every time for which things you have a notebook. Like a "workout log", what!?
As someone who’s just getting started with the gym, I could see it being very useful. My experience with exercise is one based in intently listening to my body, something I took from practicing yoga for around 6 years. We all have little anatomical quirks that could make certain exercises unpleasant or even painful. It makes sense to note those sensations and work them out by trying a different technique or adjusting the grip. It also makes sense to write down measurements if that’s the sort of thing you care about.
I journal mostly... though I've had small books that I keep shopping lists, thoughts, poems I like in as well. I've also kept a couple of fermentation, brewing, canning, and more recently sewing logs. I also started doing sketchbooks when I took a water media course in college. My notekeeping methods are super organic, by which I mean supremely disorganized. I just discovered your videos and am excited to see what more I can do to maybe hone my skills a bit.
This is my absolute favorite video! My own journey started when I came across Tiago Forte's second brain concept, then I wasted months going from app to app, building workflow after workflow and not achieving any results. I then discovered the analog Zettelkasten, and again, I wasted time obsessing over the system and workflow without achieving anything.
I think notebooks are the answer for me. I want to start a RUclips channel, but I need to do some discovery around the niche and content so that sounds like a great use for a deep thinking journal. I also started carrying a pocket notebook for a catch all, and I am using my plasma donation money this week to order some more Leichturnn notebooks for topical commonplace books so I can start actually working on this huge stack of books I've been buying over the months.
Gosh, that was extensive! New subscriber here. I am 58 and have kept notebooks/diaries all my life. I find that every so often I need to re-organize depending on my lifestyle, which changes. To lighten my load I keep thoughts in Obsidian, Experiences in Diaro (with photos) and an art journal (with drawings), and I Self-master with two calenders (work and private), a bunch of lists (to do, reading, to buy, etc) and a bujo for tracking habits I want to develop (mostly health-related). It is fun to browse through notebooks from 20-30 years ago, and see how not just I, but the world has developed. I enjoy everything digital, it has made the world more accessible to me, which I appreciate so much! 😊
Thank you for mentioning the smythson notebooks - this was the perfect cherry on top of the gift I’m giving my fiancé on our wedding day, he’s a writer and a film buff too.
Yessssss!!!!! He is going to love it. That's so cool! Great idea.
Your channel is incredible Mr. Parker, I just discovered your channel by accident and I don't regret following your content, you're incredible, keep making these types of videos
🤔📓 I'm here because I've been trying to simplify and declutter my digital life and write things down by hand more often, since I'm convinced there are mental benefits to doing so. I'm just trying to get ideas on how to build my notebook system. It has always felt overwhelming because the sky is literally the limit on what you can do with notebooks, and I haven't always been the best at actually writing in them habitually. Thanks for the suggestions!
Bullet journalling is a great start
I'm still trying to figure out a method, but I think I narrowed down what types of notebooks would be most practical for me after watching this. The concept of a soliloquies journal, specifically, is the exact thing I've been trying to accomplish, but didn't quite have the word for it and had forgotten your mention of it in a previous video. Very helpful. Thanks again, man.
As a person with a ton of notebooks, this video is amazing and helpful.
🙌🙌🙌 let's go!
📓 I’m a fountain pen enthusiast, I am also an on and off lifelong journaler (mostly emotional processing).
Now I’m obsessed w types of paper. I also keep commonplace books, quotes, poetry books, affirmations, study and book notes.
I write songs, and prose.
I love your names for your categories, how detailed they are detailed, and how varied. Fun!
I name my different journals, most recent name.. Book of no rules. I suppose it is a catch all. See, notebook 🧙♂️ ha
Profound thanks, brother! I'm a polymath who's crippled by severe ADHD. I'm 33, and I would've become a polymath like you if I only weren't so lethargic all the time.
I have a lot of notebooks, too, that I've bought over the years, but they're all blank. Thanks for motivating me again! I'm definitely going to incorporate some of your ideas. I've been wanting to have a dictionary book for over a decade now. I have had a couple, but I failed to be consistent and stopped recording words after a while. As a teenager or a pre-teen, I recall having a tall notebook for useless info/trivia. I recall cutting and pasting clippings from magazines. Good old days! Again, I wasn't consistent, and I stopped doing that after a while. I'm always very low on energy. Too low to even exercise.
I used to be the best at taking notes in college. For some courses, I'd take notes by hand very quickly. But for others, I'd be too lazy to take notes. The most recent thing I've done is voice-recording class lectures. But I have almost never listened to them later to take notes. 😢
I was going through your recent philosophy books for beginners video (again) today and was planning to get some of those books and start reading them.
I made it to the end, and I watched everything. Looking forward to the proverbs! 🧙♂️
Fellow ADHD'er here who has thousands of blank notebooks under their belt. Paper notebooks don't tend to work for people with ADHD because as soon as we set it down or put it into a drawer, we forget about it. It's just much better to do things digitally. Apple notes is great, Notion, Obsidian, and One Note are also good options. The ability to search is a Godsend for ADHD.
so as someone else with adhd and autism, i would disagree with bae over here. we just need to use different methods
@@baejay798 i wouldnt agree with this. ill give some methods and whatnot when i get home and have more time but we can make it work, and i find its actually far superior once you do find a working system. more explanations later though lol
ok so, i have returned lol. bullet journaling in the way originally defined by Ryder Carroll was create specifically because he has adhd. thats a great system, although some just use it as a calendar. thats moreso how i use it. i put notes and things on notecards. i can go more into that if you want to use a system like that for notes. but ids say bullet journaling and also common place books if you want something even simpler. if you feel lost or need help, feel free to ask buddy :)
I'm a 90s kid. I did try writing on my laptop, and I liked it for a few days, but it was quite annoying to write on a screen. I prefer pen and paper/a notebook - old school is the best school!
📓🧙🏽I LOVE notebooks. Specifically those I can insert into leather journal covers. I have a pocket leather journal with three inserts, a standard Traveler’s Notebook sized leather journal with two inserts and an A5 sized leather journal with one insert.
In the pocket leather journal I have one insert I use as my bullet journal, another insert I use as a “catch all” notebook, and an insert I use as a reading log (which I recently started after watching your reading log video).
In the standard sized Traveler’s Notebook journal, I have an insert I use as a common place notebook and an insert I use as a diary.
Lastly, in my A5 sized leather journal, I have an insert I have been trying to figure out what to do with.
This video gave me lots of great ideas! Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video.
(📒) I started writing/journaling at the age of 10. It was more of a diary than anything, and it was mostly nonsensical ramblings of a young child. But as the years grew by, I grew fond of writing and just collecting and assessing my thoughts. Currently, I've only been writing for half a decade, but it has already helped me so much-from helping me realize the kind of person I am, realizing how my mind works, whom I wish to be in the future, and etc.
And thanks to this video and channel, I now know what to call my notebooks and how to differentiate my journals, from my catch-it-all, and etc. Thanks so much, ParkNotes!
You make me love notebooks and writing in general more and more with each video... 🧙🏼
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📓 I’m kind of the opposite of you in how I notebook: there’s one for pretty much everything. Class notes (doing my second masters in theology) are in their own books, as is any fiction writing project. But my personal life gets one notebook. It’s my planner, diary, reflection journal, prayer journal, reading log, movie/show log… it’s like the paper version of me and my mind and it goes with me everywhere in a great leather cover.
I also want to take this chance to thank you for making these videos. I found your channel while looking for some inspiration about how to better organize and use my notebook, and came across your video about soliloquies. You’re pretty inspiring, Parker! This one gives me some great ways to think about my personal writing.
Please make that video about a personal handbook! And I’d also love to know where you studied theology. Keep up the good work, Notebook Sage and Wizard. 🧙🏼♂️
I have a primary notebook that have todo tasks, weekly planner, accounts & reminders. I used to have a two other notebooks which I was unable to manage, I was never able to stick to a topic for them it could be because I was just starting out and this kind of categorization takes time albeit after watching your videos It is now clearer to me how can i use those differently and effeciently. Thank you for this video.
I've adopted a simple system:
- Catch all journal/diary: Literally just unload my brain into this one. Basically everything (except my other notebook stuff) goes here. Plans, thoughts, feeling, musings, etc.
- workout/training log: self explanatory. I know we have apps for this, but I just like physically writing it all down.
- everyday carry pocket notebook: for catching stuff when I'm out and about that I needa remember. Plus things like shopping lists and dates/appointments I shouldn't be forgetting.
- Manuscript/compendium/commonplace thingo: I just transfer my scribble of annotations from the books I'm reading just to try to retain some of that info.
It's messy as hell, but that's a reflection of me as a person and I'm fine with it.
🧙♂️. I actually watched this video 2 times and took notes. You were right…keeping the catch all has broadened my long hand writing into a few notebooks. My newest is morning pages and it has been life changing! Thank you for the video!
I just started using notebooks because of your advocacy. I'm keeping it simple and using only one. I don't think I can handle anything more than that. It'll mostly be gleaned and self-generated thoughts. Thanks for this!
8:40 I started doing this at the beginning of the year with a notebook and folio my GF got me as a gift. I feel like its helped me retain and analyze what I'm reading by a considerable margin.
Its half journal and half commonplace book. As I'm reading the book i will write down interest or poignant quotes. Once I'm done I write my "review" expanding on the quotes i captured previously
Hey Park, greetings from Brazil, thanks for the video, it really helped me.
🙌🙌🙌🫡 I'm so glad!
Thank you for making great videos.
📓I love to carry a pocket notebook everyday as a catch all for thoughts & to do's as well as a seperate notebook at work for task & time management.
Thanks for this encouragement! I do the same! I love it. Such a great system
So happy I stumbled onto your videos- really helped me get focused on organizing my notebooks as I have many with Hodge podge thoughts scattered everywhere📓
I keep one notebook that is like a hybrid commonplace book/journal/project book, but I keep everything, EXCEPT for chores, groceries, appointments and finances. For chores and groceries I use a tiny pocket notebook I always have with me and/or a widget list on my phone. For appointments I use my phone calendar, and for finances I have a dedicated budget planner. So I have my commonplace/journal, a tiny pocket notebook, a budget planner and my smartphone. I think more than this would overwhelm this.
One more thing I like to make is lists, and just categorizing stuff in a way that is easy to search and compare, so for that I do use Excel, and compliment it with Obsidian to expand on the topics Im making lists about.
Hi, thank you so much for making this video and it has broaden my view on how and why the way I am. It made me realize that I was already doing this at the start of high school when I had no friends and someone to talk to because most of them are really busy and only get to talk at a specific time of the day. Though, I didn't write my philosophical thinking but the patterns match from the way you talk about philosophy. I get bullied when I talk about philosophical thinking out even at home because they didn't like most of the truth I wanted to convey for them and wanting to connect as a kid because I was so lonely that all I can do is think at school staring at beautiful pink blue sky as I think. It may sound like dissociation but know at that time cellphones are prohibited and being quiet is a must.
Just to add more appreciation, it made my thinking notes organized and I'm so glad I found your channel because I'm finding the ways to fix my catch all book, keep up the good work. It was messy and I happen to find myself needing it to be perfect in each page, hence skipping a lot of blank papers for that specific subject then finds it not being able to finish. I find this annoying breaking pattern to go back and fourth from going all for one to one for all because I'm in between organized and decluttering maniac. To going in a note app to traditional. It could be a perfectionism buts it's only for me to read so I want to make it easier for future me to read without having the hassle to go and where to find that specific page.
And so too, I learned to book bind and recycle to stop the broken pattern. By both of your help in this video, I can rearrange and declutter the papers myself.
I have finally reach the maximum level of a notebook and bookworm lover. This makes me feel as if I have discovered the complete life cycle of a book, haha. Thanks again! I hope this can give you an idea to organize, though I see you like to collect the journals instead.
🧙♂️I always enjoy your content, you have motivated me to get back to reading and philosophy which has helped me out of a deep spiral of depression due to being laid off. Always love to hear your ideas, as for me I have been keeping a catch all for awhile and have started branching out to other types of notebooks as I have been learning more!
Let's go!!!! This is the best. I'm so glad. And I know those catch-alls are gateway notebooks 😅 keep going! This is awesome
I have my notebooks going all the way back to the early nineties.
Thanks for your videos they help me think more deeply about the way I collect information.
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I have a Leuchtturm pocket for philosophical ramblings/monologues and their Bullet Journal 2 for organization/daily reflections. I hope each will help me reach my goals.
I definitely need an A5 for the philosophical thoughts because the pocket is filling up quickly 😂
I love the idea of a love journal, I've done that since I was quite young with letters in a box, but I burn them every few years when I feel I'm not the same person who wrote them. I'm glad to know others do similar things and I'm not entirely strange for it.
🧙♂️Catch all is definitely a great starting point for everything. I’ve always struggled trying to place my daily tasks both personal and work related, trying to figure out what goes were. Luckily this year I got a planner that was just monthly view and notes. Honestly it works more than anything from the previous years. Also have a blank 240pg notebook as my diary. Used to have a daily dairy with dates written and honestly stopped using it because it came with the pressure of filling up the entire page. Blank notebook allows me to write however much I want for the day sometimes half a page, sometimes 2 lines. No guilt whatsoever. I can use it cover to cover so I don’t have to discard it yearly. And somehow I managed to be consistent and it motivates me to keep writing daily.
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Brother, you've changed my life. I've been in and out of logging collections for years. I've got sooo much going on in my mind and gotta get it out but never had a systematic way to process and categorize data. I was trying to put it all in one notebook. It was either too small and clumsy or too large and not portable. But you have removed the guilt of having multiple notebooks 🤣Specifically with the catch-all pocket notebook. I've fused my bullet journal with a catch-all in a pocket size and it has changed everything. And now I can leave all those hefty exegetical thoughts at home, tucked nice and neat in their own notebooks. Thanks!!
One of my favorite youtubers. Thanks for the info you've given and for getting me into writing more this year
Let's go! So glad to have you here on the journey with me🤝
This is the best video on that topic.
I will be using 3 Notebooks.
One for thoughts ( personal and collected ) so it will contain quotes, information, and my insights on ideas to know thyself
The second one will be for experiences. Daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual reflection. Reviewing my progress and a diary, I will ask myself what I did well.
How would I do that thing differently?
The last one will be for self-mastery (goals, tasks, time blocking ) and also it will be my catch-all as it is a pocket notebook.
📓📗📔📘📙📒I'm a crazy notebook person. Bujo, philosophy notes, physics notes, memories I need to work through. And morning journal. Also ideas, for both stories or business plans.😂
Same here
I've a bujo, a weekly organizer, journal notebook, personal size TN, Bible study/prayer journal and several that I haven't started yet but have ideas for. TY for sharing your philosophy.
Lol 🧙 I keep an informal diary, a few catch-alls littered around my house , a digital system for my notes, and notebooks for developing my writing.
Sounds like you're killing it 🫡
Mate what a fantastic and comprehensive look at notebooks. Really enjoyed this and found it incredibly helpful. It was nice to reflect on why I keep notebooks and what I am trying to get out of it. It was also interesting to see some uses I hadn't thought of. Thanks for sharing!
@@foxkocreates let's go! I'm so glad you liked it. Thanks for this thoughtful comment, glad to see other noteheads out there
🧙♂️The same but in digital + random notebook. When I need to disconnect or write in class I use physical paper. Then everything goes in a photo online or to the place it belongs (google sheets, calendar, tasks, notion, drive, keep). The thing is to actualize them when reviewing. I need to take another photo on that and delete the previous one 😂 💤.
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📓 junkie. Journal with a prompt every day. Then note taking for work. Then, a notebook for tasks and thoughts and quotes. Just picked up a set of small notebooks to organize myself better for the upcoming year. Thank you for your help and work.
📒 I use notebooks alot😂 in fact while watching this I’m adding to my TBR list in my spiral notebook and marking off books I’ve finished recently
📓 journaler out of necessity. With my autism and adhd my head is always full, overwhelmed, and journals give me structure, a place to offload the brain brees and actually engage with thoughts and what not that usually fly me by in my head. I keep a morning page journal, a Companion journal that records my reading logs & book notes as well as thoughts and such throughout the day, a gender journal where I think on my gender experience and how my transition affects it, creative writing notebook for some daily creativity as well as one for the world I'm building in TTRPG, just to name a couple. I really love the way you talk about notebooks and related topics, keep them going 👌
📙 I’m a little addicted to my notebooks. I am ok with that.
Haha same here!
📓 i am a massive notebook nerd. i believe in the commonplace book and im completely partial to Midori's MD Notebook [A5] Grid. having the most satisfying paper and pen to write with and to dump out my thoughts, ideas, plans all in one place has been such a pleasure
Really loved this video! I'm definitely going to pick up some of these notebook ideas! Keep up the awesome content!
So glad you liked it
Magnificent moustache dude
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In your personal notebook/handbook you should include how to set up personal protocals. I've been working on including some here and there (quite a few from Hubermanlab) with varied success but the idea of a dedicated book for this sounds like it would be a great help. I definitely want to see that video!
📓 📔 📒 the way I notebook is doing a Diary, work schedule, about my list to do , list of goals , a list of skincare and about other topics I want to document my notebook is so chaotic
Thank you for sharing those great tips, can't wait to try it out.
📓🤔 my challenge is to not get confused on how to categorize my knowledge
I have tons of notebooks and love the whole idea of writing down everything you do but I just never pull the trigger on starting. I love all the writing you do and the idea behind it but I think I don't have that much interesting stuff going on to write down. Awesome videos, keep it up.📓📓📓📓📓
Oh, thank you for ending with a "catch all" notebook!
I'm just starting out, and all those notbooks were making me dizzy. Now, I will track what I'm capturing, so to know what I'm interested in documenting so to start my notes collection.
I've learnt a lot from your channel.
Thank you 😊
📔📓📓I use a journal (for Scripture reading/book notes/ journal journal/ letters/ meditation, and prayers), a catch all, and a pocket proverbs notebook. Using these has drastically improved my thought processing and is also great for my spare time instead of the doom scroll (which I learned through your videos). I've always used a journal since I was a young lad and now learning about various other methods and notebook uses has been great for me mentally and spiritually. I really enjoy your content and also listen to Parker's Pensées... a ton!
📓 Thanks for the video and helping me to process the method of notebook I want to use going forward, or in my case, probably more than one.
@@clocha_cora 🙌🙌🫡 I'm so glad it helped!!
Random Question: I've used a Bullet Journal for years to keep track of what I get done at work each day, and I intend to keep this system for that purpose. However, I really want to begin a commonplace book or zibaldone journal. I like the idea of having sections to categorize my thoughts. I want them more organized and more easily accessible than they currently are. But I struggle with how much room to give each category. What if I go over or don't fill it up. That might be my Autism speaking...but the struggle is real. How do you recommend overcoming this? I don't want a thousand different journals, just a well organized one or a couple. One more note...I hate 3 ring binders, and I want to keep these notes by hand, not digitally. Thanks for any input you may have...maybe it's a topic for a different video in the future.
@clocha_cora I hate three ring binders too haha they are no good. If you're keeping a Zibaldone then no need for categories just toss it all in. If you're keeping a commonplace book, just come up with the categories or "commonplaces" after the fact. Write the quote and try to abstract out the best category for it: love, justice, romantic love, poetic justice, friendship: make amends, whatever, and then as you add new quotes see if they can fit under any of your already established commonplaces and if not then make a new one. I think that should work well
Thanks for the advice. I'm thinking about using a Zibaldone journal with an index in the back. That let's me avoid having predetermined sections that may or may not get used or overused and still be organized and efficient in finding what I'm looking for. Here's hoping that works for my brain. I realized tonight I also have a catch-all journal I already keep in my purse for sermon notes or interesting thoughts, a file on my phone for notes about the book I'm writing, a prayer journal/personal reflection journal and a small dotted journal I use to sketch out my designs for tiny houses. So, what's one or two more journals? 😂 Blessings to you and your family.
Every video is masterful! I'd love to see more about your prayer journals and your analog day scheduler book. 🧙🏻♀
This was SO HELPFUL!! thank you so much 📓 🧙
I was busy taking notes in my catch all while watching and took a screenshot of your mind map for future reference. This is another one of your videos I’m going to need to watch more than once as there is *SO* much helpful info in it!
I take notes of pretty much everything, but they are really disorganised, so this is super helpful to think about how I can organise them to make them more helpful.
I use a bullet journal, a long form journal (you would term it a diary) an A5 catch all for meeting notes, ideas, notes from phone calls etc.
There were two things that jumped out at me, the journal questions of what happened, how did I feel about it and THEN the extra what action did i take and how was it received. I have added what could I do differently as well. The other thing was “what am I going to use this notebook for?” I bought two new notebooks after watching your deep thinking journal video and then had analysis paralysis of what am i going to use this for? Which subjects? Why do I need to keep a commonplace book? A general one or a subject specific one? so this has made me pause and think before diving in.
I would definitely be interested in a personal handbook video as I also have a bunch of index cards with notes on - mine are DBT skills and stuff so this idea really speaks to me. Thanks and keep up the great work. Love this channel.
📓📕 I have watched A LOT of videos on RUclips about notebook ideas. You by far have THE BEST content and channel for how to use my MANY notebooks. Thank you forgiving us fresh content about this subject.
Thank you!! This is very encouraging 🙌
notebook emoji from me, thanks for good content. i switched to 'catch all' notebook after watching some of your videos, and don't use phone for notes anymore. wish you luck in your work!
That's awesome! I hope you're finding the catch-all to be more beneficial than your phone 🤞
🧙♂️ thanks for all yhe ideas. I'm just getting started with notebooks/journals. I will probably start with the notebook that I write everything in and then expand out to others if I notice similar things that I want to have separately.
📓 I started journaling last year i go through hot and cold fazes, but I write down what I did that day, random thoughts, books I’ve read etc I don’t know if it works or why I do it but I think I do it to get my emotions out because in person I come across as very aloof and distant.
I do something similar with one notebook! Yes…I go through several notebooks in a year! I divide my sections by gluing on a paper tab to keep it organized and so I can find things easily ! I so appreciate your showing this! I look forward to seeing more of your work. I do separate into 2 different notebooks using one for church and studying Gods word and a separate notebook for work. My 3 notebooks go with me everywhere! It’s refreshing to know that someone else does this!!! Thank you!
2:30 The first line of my first notebook officially says "What do I need to live better today?" That's a good one for sure. Looking forward to giving this a shot.
I love these ideas. Everytime I watch your videos I think I buy a new notebook. 😂 I’ve tried many different types, but what currently works for me (and that I keep up): a long form “what happened in my day” journal;
a commonplace book for the different online courses I take and nonfiction books I read;
a personal proverbs collection;
a book reading record (with reviews);
a creative writing ideas book;
and a spiritual practices journal (Centering prayer insights, mindfulness etc).
Also I keep visual art diaries (a variety of sketchbooks for different art media). I used to also keep a cognitive diary for discussions with my psychologist when I was first working through anxiety and depression. I find handwriting personally necessary for retaining and assimilating the information long-term. Thanks again for another inspiring video. 😊
Probably one of the stranger topics i decided to binge. ❤ I love this page
This is an amazing way to frame what I feel like is commonly referred to just as journaling. The catch-all and I'd even venture to say "trendy" term of "journaling" doesn't appeal to me, but the idea of books for specific purposes does, and I've gleaned many benefits from writing things out. Thanks for making this and for your work on making writing more approachable and desirable to those like me!
You are note🧙♂️book nut but i enjoy your videos and you help me kind of organize myself more everyday. I have many notebooks, and have had trouble trying to differentiate where to put everything...its overwhelming sometimes but you help me a lot. Thanks
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I would like to hear your experience with the traveler's notebook system. I'm considering getting one -in regular size- for my common placing and EDC.
Still need to try and use mine. I've tried in the past and I should like them but I just don't for some reason
This was great and very informative! My favorite way to use a notebook is for morning pages.
📒📓 my first notebook I'd carry outside school was an old sketchbook I'd doodle in as a child. Years passed without analog note taking, and then in college, I EDCed a pocket notebook as a catch-all for the past 7 or 8 years. Lifesaver. And now I'm trying to start a Zibaldone/Manuscript Commonplace book.
🧙♂️ i use a modified minimalist bullet journal catch all with spreads (so not just a diary) as my note taking system. Im currently writing in a dotted pocket sized Leuchtturm1917 with the 003 Pigma Micron pen (I used plain pocket sized Moleskine notebooks back in the day.) I i haven't started any commonplace books yet but I do plan to sometime between now and starting university in 2025 (Bsc in Cognitive Science.) I always appreciate your channels and look forward to your future content!
Hello Park notes brilliant thanks for your contribution in this aspect this was a very fantastic and amazing video I loved very much to watch this video and I was eager to watch such like video so that I can somehow start my own writing and diary writing basically I love diary writing or what you say the notebook writing you are brilliant in the skill and I am blessed to watch this video I hope this will help me in my way out.
Thanks for this video! I like how you laid everything out. I will likely Make a flow chart of this for myself! As for how I use my notebook? I currently have a catch-all notebook but it is beginning to be unruly and I want to build things out from it. I currently use A5 as my catch-all but I may move to a fieldnotes and do as you recommended and disperse the information out from there. I use fountain pens so my small catchall must have fountain-pen-friendly paper (If you have any recommendations, I'd appreciate it). Great video!
Thank you for making this video. Since finding your channel, all of these different types of notebooks and their purposes got mixed up in my head. This video helps me apply these for my needs.
I am a total notebook junkie! My issue is how do I break them in? I just got a traveler's notebook set from Amazon with three notebook inserts and I had trouble thinking about how to best use them. So, thanks for posting this video! It was really helpful
I still haven't found what works for me. I've always been attracted to big A5 sized notebooks, which I like for journalling and that's what I have been doing since I was a teen.. but I don't want to carry heavy stuff around, so this system has worked cause I like to journal in the evening. To encourage myself writing down things in the day, I wanna get a smaller notebook to carry around. So simple, yet never committed to it. I enjoy minimalism and even though I like the idea of specific notebook for different things, and have tried that, that occupies too much physical space and I also get overwhelmed and never actually manage to keep up with all the notebooks. I need something simple and all in one, so I think just gonna get myself one notebook that is very portable and use it for everything - guess will need replacing often! I've been loving writing down things I'm grateful for. Such a boost of positivity, for some reason I've stopped but wanna go back to it asap!
My first and only notebook is a catch all. I feel like it’s perfect for just putting everything into it, so time will tell what kind of notebook categories make sense to one personally. Thank you very much for that nifty overview, that definitely helped a lot 🧙♂️ 📓
🤔📓 This video has been very helpful, you and your wonderful mustache really helped me understand different ways to take notes :) For a few years now I've been using my notes app as a diary to document my feelings and thoughts on anything that pops out (events, games, my mental health etc), but I've been looking at starting to do some stuff on a physical notebook alongside this. I recently got a beautiful notebook from my local bookstore, and after watching this I'm deciding to make it a catch-all. It was really nice seeing how you keep different notebooks, thank you for the guidance :)
📓 I love to collect my thoughts and see my self as a very novice writer and I am incredibly glad that I found your channel. I’ve always been a jumpy scatterbrained person who can’t sit still, but when I pull out my field note book and jot down some cool new ideas it really calms my mind and helps me to focus on what’s important in my life. I’m excited to see what you do in the future my friend 😄
🧙♂️ have several of these but need to get back to them and would be useful to work on starting some othes - thank you for the encouragement
Very glad you found it helpful!!
🧙♀️ now i am a wizard. Thanks this was a great video. I use several notebooks, for different sorts of things. Most are topical journals and diaries. I do use a bujo and i agree it's much more of a diary than a journal, which is fine. The one thing I'm really lacking are the places for generated thoughts. I loved your breakdown on that. I just flipped my field notes sized notebook that I'm using as my commonplace notebook sideways so I'll have room to write the quote (or whatever) and have space to write my own thoughts beside it, turning it into a manuscript style. I also loved learning the dionaria (?) style- having a dialog with myself (out the various parts of myself) seems like an awesome idea. Thanks so much! ❤
🤔I'm intrigued and am looking to get started with a notebook. There are a lot of good tips here.
📓thank you Parker. I am loving your videos and advice. You take it so far from the “here’s my to do list for the day” nothing wrong with lists, but I really appreciate your insight on how to use notes to collect and capture ideas.
📘📓I've been writing in notebooks and journals for almost 40 years. I have over 80 notebooks and journals. You could almost say I have an addiction to anything one can write in. I have many empty notebooks that I've had for years, so although I love writing in journals and notebooks; I love collecting them slightly more. As we speak, I have many started notebooks and journals. I am using one to study the Bible, one to write down prayers for my children, one to just write about my day, and quite a few to do art journaling. Great video!
🧙♀from tokyo, japan! i use 4 notebooks from daiso poket size notebooks to daiso(1coin) medium sized notebooks. one is where I write negative thoughts. another is where I write positive thoughts and sometimes habit tracker(post it) is attached. i write a blog based on my thoughts on quote so I have a notebook for brainstorming about it. the last one is a timeblock daily planner!! thx for the vid! keep going and you are cool!
This was great! I could get a wizard emoji to post - but wanted to let you know I appreciate you sharing all your thoughts and methods. With Aloha.
🧙 a day journal: listing accomplishments; a to-do list journal: because I loose my paper list/back of envelope/post its and am tending to jot other ideas/meeting notes/grocery list, at current am thinking of tracking my daily spiritual disciplines in this after viewing your reading habit video. Thank you