Copyright – Julie Goucher, 2025

The start of the year means that I need to find some time to run though my notebooks of the last year and check for any outstanding notes that need attention. There has been a few tweaks to my previous notebook use, which I plan to chat about towards the end of the post. 

So, running from left to right:

• Leuchtturm1917 – 14 December 2023 – 13 January 2024
• Alex Clark notebook – 9 January – 20 February (see note 1)
• Unbranded notebook – 15 January – 3 March (see note 2)
• Leuchtturm1917 – 3 March – 22 May
• Waverley – 23 May – 13 July (see note 3)
• Moleskine (limited edition) – 13 July – 31 August (see note 4)
• Filofax (refillable) – 24 July – 24 August (see note 5)
• Paper Gang (Ohh Dear) – 30 August – 12 October (see note 6)
• Unnamed – 8 Sep – 9 Oct (see note 7)
• Unnamed – 13 Oct – 31 Oct (see note 7)
• Unnamed – 1 November – 14 December (see note 8)
• Moleskine – 14 December – into 2025 (see note 9)

There are several points worthy of mentioning:

1. Alex Clark notebook with a bird on the cover. This was to live in my handbag where I could record things on the hoof, and jot my shopping lists down.
2. This book was spotted in a local shop in the queue, so I made a spot decision and purchased. It does what notebooks do, nothing more, nothing less. No bookmarks or pocket at the back, but for under £5 was a good purchase.
3. These books from Waverley are great. They have a wide range of tartan covers and have two attributes that I especially like – these are Moleskine size 21 x 13 and have plain cream pages on the left and cream lined on the right. These are also available in A6 size, albeit slimmed like Moleskine pocket, with the mixed paper as outlined here.
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   Copyright – Julie Goucher, 2025

   This is standard Moleskine size, 21 x 13 released in 2019 or so and in limited numbers. This notebook boasts a contents page and page numbers. The inside page has  wonderful marbling.

5. Filofax notebook which is refillable – I have used a number of these in recent years, though to be fair, I don’t refill.
6. Paper Gang (Ohh Dear) was the make behind the a stationary box that I used to subscribe to, before they stopped releasing them. This notebook was from December 2020 I think.
7. These two notebooks were from a set of three and available from Sainsbury’s – the third book (in a deep peach colour) is on my bookshelf awaiting to be used.
8. This was from Amazon, purchased quite simply because I liked the picture of the map.
9. Moleskine – This is similar the Two-Go Moleskine books, but has cream lined paper – measures about 9 x 13

Across all the notebooks there are page tabs. These are to remind me of something, or contain notes that might need to be removed for something specifically, perhaps an article. presentation or a future course. I also flag my To Do pages this way, then I can make sure I have covered everything or move it to the current notebook.