Copyright – Julie Goucher, 2023

It is New Years Eve and I usually find some time to run though my notebooks of the year and check for any outstanding notes that need attention. What is unusual for the notebooks of 2023, is that I concluded 2022 and notebook simultaneously, thus I went into 2023 in a brand and spanking new notebook.

So, running from left to right:

• Rifle Paper Company notebook – 1 Jan – 15 March 
• Paper Chase notebook – 15 March – 3 April
• unnamed brand  – 4 April – 15 May
• Moleskine 16 May – 12 June (see note 1)
• Moleskine – 12 June – 13 July (see note 1)
• unnamed brand – 13 July – 10 August (see note 3 & 5)
• Papergang notebook – 4 August – 26 August (see notes 2 & 3 )
• Moleskine – 26 August – 25 September (see note 1)
• Orla Kiely notebook – 26 September – 14 November (see note 4)
• Gifted Stationary Company – 14 November – 14 December (see note 2)
• Leuchtturm1917 – 14 December – into 2024

There are several points worthy of mentioning:

1. The Moleskine books are all slightly shorter books with a mix of plain paper on the left side and lined on the right side. These I have had for a while.
2. The Papergang notebook and the Gifted Stationary Company books were A6 size, which is not my usual preferred size. 
3. There is notebook overlap – this was caused by starting notes specific to a particular topic and I wanted them all in one book.
4. The Orla Kiely notebook is lined and the same size as the usual Moleskine, 21 x 13 cms
5. We were away and I suspected that I might finish the current notebook, so I packed one from my supply, just as well as I did indeed need it!

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.

Julie Goucher, 2023

As I said, I ended 2022 at the same time as a notebook, and thought that was worthy of a little details and a picture.

The notebook was a lovely Katie Leamon book, a whopper with 300 pages with lovely smooth cream paper in A5 size and a blue and white cover, shown here.

Santa’s helper gave me another in the series for Christmas 2022 which is next up, shown here. There were also another two from Santa’s helper, and I will use these during the year also.