I always start a brand new notebook on January 1, regardless of whether or not I’ve filled the last one. Previous ones get dated and numbered on their spines with a Pentel Micro Correct white pen and put on the shelf.
Very wasteful, sometimes. I doubt I’m going to fill the one on the left before the end of the year. (Although, with a non-cranky printer, I can go back to printing things out to paste in it.) I’ve been working on projects that get broken out into separate, dedicated notebooks. But I like to start the year with a clean book. Sometimes I’ll even give up on one notebook and start a fresh one on July 1, just because I feel stale and congested and need a fresh start.
And now I look at my shelf – where the hell is notebook 2022-1? Did I take it out to refer to previous notes and forget? That’s why they’re up on the shelf – I refer to old notes all the time, and each notebook has a numbered index on the front page. Otherwise, all the ideas would get lost. Of course, an entire notebook getting lost doesn’t help….!
Tools: Pilot G-2 07 black pen, Scotch permanent adhesive dots, Pritt stick, Instax mini printer, HP Envy printer. Kindle Highlights lets me save useful bits of books I’m reading: I can access them from the web and copy them over to print off.
(I still have a Canon Selphy, but my partner took over its use.)