For a variety of reasons that I’m not going to go into here, I’ve recently started keeping a private personal diary that I use to dump everything out of my brain, talk about my feelings, work through my feelings, vent, be generally mindful etc. in a very spontaneous and unstructured way before going to sleep each night, as well as for dream journaling when I wake up some days.
Sorta beside the point of the thread, but I definitely strongly recommend starting a diary to anyone who doesn’t keep one already. I think it’s doing wonders for my mental health. It’s also very fun: it’s easy to just start writing, enter a flow state, and then look at the clock to find 45 minutes or an hour has passed without me realising, and then 15 minutes later something else pops into my head and I pick it back up and am writing for another 25 minutes. I’m not personally using mine as a creative outlet, but I’m sure that’s probably another good way to use it.
Anyway, back on topic, the notebook that I’m using is just a black plain lined black faux-leather-bound notebook with a red ribbon bookmark attached to it. And I’m not starting a new page or anything for each entry or day, but rather just drawing a line under the last day’s entries and writing the date before the first entry of each day, and then marking each new entry with a time stamp and the loose purpose of the entry as a heading before I start writing.
A side effect of this approach to organisation is that I often end up in a situation where I have a double page spread completely filled at the end of an entry right as I go to close the notebook. And before I close it, I put the bookmark into the book so that I can quickly open it and continue from where I left off. However, when I have filled a full double-page spread, it begs the question: should I bookmark the pages that I have just filled out (see example 1), or should I turn the page and bookmark the next empty pages that I am going to use (see example 2)?
I have been bookmarking the last page spread that I have written in like in example 1, as it feels more consistent with how the bookmark is used when I have e.g. half of a page left. However, I’m sorta curious as to whether this is a typical approach for how people bookmark their notebooks or not, especially considering that this doesn’t mirror how I use bookmarks with reading books (I bookmark the page I’m going to continue from when I read it next, granted this is simplified because it’s usually a chapter boundary with a page break anyway).
Those of you who use plain notebooks (for dairying, timekeeping, planning, or whatever else), when you are using a bookmark to keep your place, do you use it to mark the pages you have just used, or do you use it to mark the page that you’re going to use next time you write in it? And why do you do it the way that you do? Does it reflect how you format the book at all?
Obviously in my case it’s with an attached ribbon, but it extends to flat paper bookmarks, folded corners, or whatever else you use to keep track.
Sorta beside the point of the thread, but I definitely strongly recommend starting a diary to anyone who doesn’t keep one already. I think it’s doing wonders for my mental health. It’s also very fun: it’s easy to just start writing, enter a flow state, and then look at the clock to find 45 minutes or an hour has passed without me realising, and then 15 minutes later something else pops into my head and I pick it back up and am writing for another 25 minutes. I’m not personally using mine as a creative outlet, but I’m sure that’s probably another good way to use it.
Anyway, back on topic, the notebook that I’m using is just a black plain lined black faux-leather-bound notebook with a red ribbon bookmark attached to it. And I’m not starting a new page or anything for each entry or day, but rather just drawing a line under the last day’s entries and writing the date before the first entry of each day, and then marking each new entry with a time stamp and the loose purpose of the entry as a heading before I start writing.
A side effect of this approach to organisation is that I often end up in a situation where I have a double page spread completely filled at the end of an entry right as I go to close the notebook. And before I close it, I put the bookmark into the book so that I can quickly open it and continue from where I left off. However, when I have filled a full double-page spread, it begs the question: should I bookmark the pages that I have just filled out (see example 1), or should I turn the page and bookmark the next empty pages that I am going to use (see example 2)?
I have been bookmarking the last page spread that I have written in like in example 1, as it feels more consistent with how the bookmark is used when I have e.g. half of a page left. However, I’m sorta curious as to whether this is a typical approach for how people bookmark their notebooks or not, especially considering that this doesn’t mirror how I use bookmarks with reading books (I bookmark the page I’m going to continue from when I read it next, granted this is simplified because it’s usually a chapter boundary with a page break anyway).
Those of you who use plain notebooks (for dairying, timekeeping, planning, or whatever else), when you are using a bookmark to keep your place, do you use it to mark the pages you have just used, or do you use it to mark the page that you’re going to use next time you write in it? And why do you do it the way that you do? Does it reflect how you format the book at all?
Obviously in my case it’s with an attached ribbon, but it extends to flat paper bookmarks, folded corners, or whatever else you use to keep track.