(Obviously, once you get that large, you’re giving up the size advantages of disc-bound over ring-bound notebooks.) Circa doesn’t just have a system, it has a whole eco-system, with discs as small as 1/4″ that can hold up to 50 sheets of paper to 3″ discs that can hold up to 450 sheets. LEVENGER CIRCAĮarly on, the best known variety of disc-bound notebooks was the Circa line from Levenger. Want even more customization? You can add tape flags, rulers, pockets (and combined pocket dividers) to create your ideal notebook. Additionally customize the sections with poly tab dividers that come with the notebooks or are accessories in that notebook brand’s line, or make your own with after-market index tabs like those from Post-It or Avery. They key is that everything in a disc-bound notebook is repositionable! Any time you want to change the order of the sections, just gently remove the pages and press them back in wherever you prefer. But if you buy a disc-based punch (like a hole-punch), you can then punch anything you want, provided it’s not too large to be accommodated by the notebook: printed photos, article clippings, puzzles, math or programming cheat cheats, foreign language translation/study words, etc. Generally, you can purchase a variety of paper styles: blank, lined, dot-grid, planner pages, etc. Further, because (unlike with three-ring notebooks), you can fold a disc-bound notebook back on itself, you don’t take up a lot of desktop space. They are attractive, versatile, and most importantly for their fans, customizable.Įach disc-based notebook has the following components: a front and back cover, loose sheets of paper that have been punched-not with three round holes but with a number of sideways umbrella or mushroom punched shapes, and button-like disks (often metal or plastic) that align with the punched section.īecause the punches are made very close to the edges of pages, you lose little real estate for writing. DISC-BASED NOTEBOOKSĭisc-based notebooks are classic they’ve been popular in Europe since the middle of the last century. Hence the rise in popularity of disc-based notebooks. And with a binder open, it takes up a lot of desktop real estate. But ring binders, even the smallest, are bulky, and it’s difficult to write on the left side or reverse of pages (or at all, if you’re a lefty). They come in myriad sizes and can be customized with a quick opening of the rings and shuffling of the papers add tabs for labeling, and voilà. Of course, you can opt for ring binders there’s a reason three-ring binders have been popular with students for the past century. But again, everything is always stuck in the same order. ![]() The next category of notebooks are spiral bound, whether the down-market one-coil spiral notebook you might use for school, or the double or Wire-O binding we’ve seen in some of the nicer notebooks in this series so far. Similarly, saddle-stitched and perfect-bound notebooks, which give you the feeling that your notes or journal are being created in an already published book and you’re just adding the words, have great aesthetic appeal, but you can’t move the pages around. But alas, they give you no customization. ![]() ![]() Simple perforated notepads, like legal pads with the paper perforated at the top (as I described last time) have the advantage of not being too nice, so you’re unlikely to experience perfectionist procrastination. To make a notebook truly your own, one option is to select modular, customizable notebooks where you can decide what goes into it, what order everything goes in, and have the ability to change it whenever you want. Some people just need a drugstore composition notebook while others want to feel their notebooks are as special and magical as their thoughts. The key to organizing is knowing what works for you one size rarely fits all, and this is especially true when writing down your thoughts.
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