Here’s a bunch of people talking about how many notebooks they are using at once:
How many notebooks do you have going right now?
I found the page via a search that resulted in this image, though the image doesn’t appear on that page. I love all these piles of notebooks, all labeled and dated and lined up by type!
See the original image here: Google Image Result for http://taguealibrary.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/rd-note.jpg.
[UPDATE: as a commenter notes below, the notebooks belonged to writer Roger Deakin. The original source of the image seems to be here.]
I’m really digging that picture of all the notebooks lined up! Makes me want to dig through them to see what’s in them!
At any given time I’ve got at least 3 notebooks going. I have one that I stick miscellaneous things in, so everything pretty much goes in there: lists, notes, important things I want to remember, random quotes and scribbles, drawings, ticket stubs, etc. Then I have my official “journal” that I’m terrible at being consistent with. I also have a notebook designated specifically for lists, one for keeping track of TV shows and stuff I like, one for when I’m feeling blue… hahahaha I guess I have way more than 3 going at a time!
I usually have two, maybe three, if you count my Franklin Dayplanner as a notebook.
Just checked I have 5 notebooks and an A5 filofax in my handbag right now. :)
I enjoyed reading through that discussion thread. According to one of the posters, that’s a picture of the notebooks of Roger Deakin. (Linked near the bottom: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=3633242&boardid=40&threadid=92867)
Usually I stick to the one-notebook-for-everything approach, but for a time last year I had 3 notebooks: my regular daily journal for writing and the occasional doodle/newspaper clipping, a pocket memo notebook for lists and reminders, and a homemade “glue book” for random collage/scrapbooking when I’m really bored.
I have a ton of notebooks every stinken christmases.