Another post about notebooks from The Simple Dollar, a blog about personal finance, self-improvement and frugal living. (Featured before in this post.) Trent talks about how he uses his “Idea Notebook,” including these tips, which he expands upon in the original post:

• I simply keep a small pocket notebook in my pocket at all times.
• I also keep a reliable pen in my pocket.
• It’s a bad idea to try to keep bits of information in your head.
• I write ideas and information down as soon as possible.
• I don’t organize these jottings at all.
• I separate jottings with a slash or a page break.
• Once a day — or more often — I review all of the jottings and deal with them.
• If a jotting is dealt with, I cross it out.
• If all jottings on a page are dealt with, I tear out the page.

It’s a good, straight-forward system, but I personally can’t deal with the part about tearing out the page. I really like keeping old to-do lists, and using notebooks that don’t have removable pages.

Read more at The Simple Dollar: A Look at My “Idea Notebook”, and don’t miss his other post, How to Use a Pocket Notebook.