I used Moleskine for several years. Each last a year apiece. Now the Miquelrius softbound: similar size, but 300 sheets for 600 pages.
Entries are numbered sequentially. Some are a single sentence, others are a code snippet; still others a paragraph.
"Log pages" go between chunks of consecutive pages. After getting full, these are taped at the edge with shipping tape, to flip to them more easily. The log page gets its own number and a luxurious two pages.
As entries are added, I flip back to the nearest log page and add <number> plus a single title sentence.
I rarely title entries themselves.
As pages start to separate from the binding, duct tape keeps them stuck to the cover.
There's so many pages; you can try all kinds of customization. I've been trying to combine Zettelkasten with GTD, but just going crazy with "how to start" versus "just do the thing."
Sharpies bleed through. Pages are graph style as blue squares, but I'm used to it.
My fidget tool is flipping through with my thumb--but only the older pages. Keep the new pages pristine, because skin oil will mess with the ink!
I aim to use a wax sheet, like what stickers use, on the proceeding page where my hand would rest, to mitigate the issue.
In all, I've reached the limit of notebooks, and from here it's automating awk or something, and really making a computer archive of this stuff.
I always promise myself to keep a good index, but I never go back to the notes. Maybe occasional entries, which will be rewritten into a new notebook--but I'm glad to have written something for my future, sentimental self.
A slip box is still possible--but instead of references to other works, they are your longer-form notes in the notebook. Then it's third-order storage, in a sense. A compromise to needing more space than an index card, but the desire for discoverable brevity.
Entries are numbered sequentially. Some are a single sentence, others are a code snippet; still others a paragraph.
"Log pages" go between chunks of consecutive pages. After getting full, these are taped at the edge with shipping tape, to flip to them more easily. The log page gets its own number and a luxurious two pages.
As entries are added, I flip back to the nearest log page and add <number> plus a single title sentence.
I rarely title entries themselves.
As pages start to separate from the binding, duct tape keeps them stuck to the cover.
There's so many pages; you can try all kinds of customization. I've been trying to combine Zettelkasten with GTD, but just going crazy with "how to start" versus "just do the thing."
Sharpies bleed through. Pages are graph style as blue squares, but I'm used to it.
My fidget tool is flipping through with my thumb--but only the older pages. Keep the new pages pristine, because skin oil will mess with the ink!
I aim to use a wax sheet, like what stickers use, on the proceeding page where my hand would rest, to mitigate the issue.
In all, I've reached the limit of notebooks, and from here it's automating awk or something, and really making a computer archive of this stuff.
I always promise myself to keep a good index, but I never go back to the notes. Maybe occasional entries, which will be rewritten into a new notebook--but I'm glad to have written something for my future, sentimental self.
A slip box is still possible--but instead of references to other works, they are your longer-form notes in the notebook. Then it's third-order storage, in a sense. A compromise to needing more space than an index card, but the desire for discoverable brevity.