Notebooks

Ugh. So, up to the 9th grade or so, I used to use those multi-subject notebooks which had dividers between sections–one section would be math, one English, etc. In high school I started to use separate spiral-bound notebooks, because I realized that different courses required vastly different amounts of note-taking, and I had ended up with lots of blank pages in the multi-subject ones. Through high school and college, I tried to use re-use single-subject notebooks for similar courses, so as not to keep the notebooks somewhat organized without wasting too much paper. When I moved to Los Angeles for grad school, I quickly realized how much space all of those spiral-bound notebooks took up, and switched to taking notes on legal pads, tearing out the pages and putting them in hanging folders in a file cabinet. I didn’t have to keep blank pages any more, and also, I could keep notes, course syllabi, photocopied articles, and handouts all in the same place. Well now we don’t have space for all the file cabinets required for that system, and I really want to go digital anyway (more on that in a future post). So now that I’m once again back in school, as much as possible I take notes in the cloud on google docs. I don’t need to digitize my notes from high school, but a major part of my home-digitization project is digitize notes (and other paper stuff) from grad school. This is probably the largest part of the project, and I haven’t even started. I’m still digitizing medical records, tax records, and other mundane things.