Saturn and Jupiter aren’t the only things intersecting in unusual ways this year. For me, I’m having a notebook conjunction, where my 4 daily use notebooks are all ending almost at the same time!

First off, two of them are 2020 Nolty planners, so it’s not unexpected that I’d finish using both of those at the end of this year. But my current sketchbook (old stock Moleskine) is down to its last pages, as is my current journal (Bindewerk Linen Flex Cover Journal).

It would be nice to start 4 fresh, new notebooks on January 1, 2021, but it won’t quite work out that way. I will be scribbling enough that I’ll finish my journal today. But unless I start drawing at a faster than usual pace, my sketchbook will probably last a few days into January. Pretty close, though!

You are probably wondering what’s next in my rotation. The 2020 Nolty Gold Efficiency Notebook will be replaced with the exact same thing for 2021. Same with the Moleskine sketchbook. But the Nolty Daily book isn’t available for 2021. And though I do have several Bindewerk spares, I don’t feel like using another one right now. I think I’m going to use one of my undated Nolty notebooks. I don’t think I’ll stick to the page-a-day habit I kept up this year with the Daily Book. Some of those pages weren’t that interesting, and it felt like there was too much overlap with what I was writing in my journal. I will still try to write something every day, but I won’t force it to be a single page. Some days it might just be a few lines, and some days it might be multiple pages.

Three notebooks at once instead of four is probably a better routine for me. But I’m sure it will still be quite rare to have them all ending at once!