So awesome that you have notebooks from that far back! I always picture my older self flipping through the notebooks I write in now. I wish I had family that kept diaries or notebooks through their life, theyd be a real treasure to me now.
Hello Chelsea. I feel lucky to have grown up with a pocket diary as a schoolboy. The transition to journals and notebooks was a completely natural thing long before the arrival of mobile phones. I have simply carried on with a custom I enjoy and feel so very comfortable with. Both my parents were diarists in their own different ways. Enjoy your own notebooks and fill them with good memories and notes of the daily stuff you get up to. Nick
Good morning Bex. Thanks for the comment. You're right, it is fascinating to see how others plan and / or journal. I have just subscribed to your channel and look forward to learning from your own approach. Nick
@@nicksturgeonbooks thank you Nick. Looking forward to your future videos too! I hope I have a similar legacy to look back on. Your Mexico notebooks are fascinating and I love the mix of writing and sketching too. And fountain pens always make writing more enjoyable!
This is so awesome! I started writing notes/ journals from 2013, so it's been 11 years now, and knowing that you've been writing in notebooks since the 1080s is really amazing, and yet you kept and taking care of your journals very well. 👏🙌
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I have recently discovered that Silvine now make quality Executive Soft Feel A5 and A6 Notebooks. Great value and good quality paper that accepts fountain pen ink without bleed through. These have become my Go-to notebooks. Made in your neck of the woods, Nick, Otley in Yorkshire.
Nick, I loved this video. WOW 30 some odd years of journaling/notebook-- AMAZING! I have just started journaling and keeping a notebook for only a couple of years, and I'm finally embracing handwriting. I found your video so enlightening and I'm going to adapt to some of your tracking methods. I love how you have your weekly spread set up with the a space for reflection and tracking at the end of each week. Awesome.. share more. I'm learning a lot from you! I recently purchased an A5 hardback notebook, going to give it a try again, but I really found myself using the A6 for everyday carry.
Good morning Tish. Glad you enjoyed this video. I enjoyed jotting down the ideas fot it and thinking about how to portray my own perspective on using journals and notebooks. With an A6 notenook and a separate daily carry you are giving yourself a real advantage. I find the A6 notebooks super useful for capturing my ideas, allowing me to work through concepts until I understand them better.
I just came across your channel, and this is some great information. I really appreciate the content you're are sharing. I'm going to look at your other videos as well. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you in the future.
Good evening John. I am pleased the content is useful or helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to leave the comment. It means such a lot to me. Nick
I've been debating to move to a paper calendar notebook but would miss my common place notebooks so much. I think you might have talked me into keeping my plain notebook. Seeing all of your notebooks with your memories is inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
Hello Donna. Many thanks for leaving a comment here. I am still marvelling at how this particular video has reached so many people, for a variety of different reasons according to how they might have connected with one aspect or another of the pieces I talked about. Are you currently using a digital calendar only? I tried a digital calendar decades ago when everything in the office was digital, but I think I left that approach behind, because of all the technology that had to be synced with everyone's telephones. I just didn't have the patience for that, finding greater comfort with pen and paper, but also being able to better grasp note filing with paper methods as opposed to invisible digital methods. Having been a Filofax user through the 1980's and then always carrying a Franklin Planner until the early 2000's, I know that paper is my preferred medium. (I've never been a user of the Commonplace book and that is a new concept for me which someone mentioned last week and which I had to read about). You obviously must stay with your Commonplace books as you derive benefit from using them.
@@nicksturgeonbooks The Planner/Reader Community loves a video filled with well loved notebooks..haha. I to have tried digital but I feel my Bullet Journals have a better view of what it was like living in my past. Just like you, you turn the page and see a drawing and it brings you back to that time. I've been toying with the idea of moving to a dated planner called the Hobonichi Cousin for (2024). I am back in college in my 50s and I am a nurse manager so sometimes I wonder if it would wise to move to dated. People tell me to do both but, that might be too much to keep up with I think. My most used notebook is the Leuttchurm Bullet Journal 2nd Ed., which is the larger A5 size. That notebook shows off my fountain pen ink so perfect. I love the Moleskine notebooks as well but the Bullet Journal is supplied with numbered days and date stickers making it a quick setup for planning.
@@BlushnBlue Hi Donna. Choices and decisions, heh? Some sort of calendar system is very useful so we can plan social events, work projects, deadlines, timetables, college tasks, etc. I use that week to a two page spread Diary which you saw in the video and which I create myself each month. For example, this morning I set up the pages for January of next year and the Roles pages (for Husband / Dad / Writer / Investor / Content Creator. I will sometimes transfer some week summary pages into my pocket notebook (either the little Moleskines or the plain pocket books. But I don't take the process too seriously or overthink it. If I need a shopping list it goes in the small pocket book. If I am thinking of ideas for a book then those jottings probably go in my A5 hardback notebook. But there are no hard or fast rules. That's not my journaling style. Great that you are back at college and learning again. This may well dictate your need for extra books / note taking / progress tracking. I'm sure you'll find what works for you. Nothing else matters.
Kaweco Sport FPs are one of my favorite pocket pens, too. I always have a notebook with me...I write all sorts of things in it. I also have some topic specific notebooks as well.
Good evening Britanny. Thanks for dropping by. Glad to know another Kaweco fan. I just visited your page and am looking forward to learning from your own approach to various journaling and diary projects that work for you. Nick
I found your video on Daily entries in your Notebooks, syncing with my own interests with Bullet journalling and Esteem maintenance. Yes I agree that Tracking your activities, can assist in keeping your productive energies flowing like a fine pen. It is pleasurable, to review one's progress through the years...as well as, these are good reads, for your grandkids. I subbed your channel..looking forward to viewing your previous videos. cheers fr: Northern Ontario Canada
Hello again @kan-zee I am working through your messages in reverse order, having started at the top of my screen here in YT. I really like your comment or mention of the phrase 'esteem maintenance'. I think this is generally what we are supporting and working towards when we make note / journal / jot down the ideas that occupy our minds. The tracking element of what finds a way into my journal / diary pages, this serves to help me think that I might be capable of something just a few steps further or better the following week. It encourages me to think how I got on this week and about how such progress or lack of it might be improved upon next week. Thanks for the sub. That's immensely kind of you. I hope you find useful content in a few of my video shares here. Nick
Such a great video. Thank you! My favorite videos of yours are when you show us your writing tools or what's in your desk or knapsack. Do you consider these notebooks to be commonplace books or just traditional journals?
Hi @squizzums Not sure what a commonplace book is? I will have to search for the meaning of this. To me they are all just notebooks really. It does seem that in recent years different naming styles or conventions have predominated, but in chatting with friends and fellow diarists we have always referred to such items as notebooks, occasionally as journals. To me they are notebooks first (for their practical function as a place for jottingndown notes), and secondly are journals (this from the sometimes reflective entries made in the books).
Hello @squizzums Back now after having looked for a definition of a Commonplace Book and found this : "a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use." I've not seen this phrase before and now, having clarified what one is, I can confirm I've never had a Commonplace book. It sounds like an interesting concept, but not something that appeals. Thanks for the trigger towards finding out more about the phrase.
Though I find joy in taking notes using pen and paper, I can't help but think that the amount of note you take would be easier to reference in a digital format? If you had a random thought about the museum and wanted to see you notes on it a year from now, it would seem to be very difficult to find said notes. Thoughts?
Thanks James. I appreciate the question. I only use digital document creation for book manuscripts which I can access as required from my laptop. Everything else ie the majority of my writing of thoughts and ideas, is better placed in a notebook or journal. I can pull a notebook or journal as required if I want to go back to find it. Each book has a cover or spine note to make identification easy. But far more important than this is the aesthetic and emotional connection to each page. My memory recall is far higher for a handwritten page - even down to remembering the approximate page number - because mine is largely a visual memory. Page quality, notebook style or brand and ink colour. Each of these remind me where each note was captured. This serves me better compared to a soul-less Word doc or Pages screen which I don't have any mental storage capacity for. Horses for courses, I think. Some folk are better with screen recall and digital indexing. For me, that is not so good as knowing where I annotated which ideas or thoughts at a set time. Besides, my notebooks are mainly a depository for my thoughts at the time they arrived with me. Regards, Nick
