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I think the biggest advantage to buying my own stuff is standardization. Nothing drives me crazier than a bunch of schwag notebooks of different shapes and sizes all jumbled in a drawer.

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It's funny, I purposely avoid this so each period of my life using it has a memberable notebook style I can look at on the shelf and reference quickly if I need to.

I generally get small ones and try to do a new one every 6 months depending on how many notes there are.

To each their own, but that sounds like a mess to me :)

I’ve done this too. Quite the contrast to my disorganised life. I have two types: lined and square paper. Both hardback and book bound (find ring binds don’t play nice with me and I lose pages). Get the exact same ones each time, apart from a few old ones whilst I was in my discovery phase. The lined ones come in a stack of 5 so always have one ready to go.

Also use a single type of pen: a black staedtler fine liner. They in a box of 10.

Right! The "exact same ones each time" is way more important to me than which ones. Or rather, the exact same shape; I experiment with dotted vs. lined vs. grid (though I've pretty much entirely decided on dotted at this point).

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