what do your notebooks look like?

Post Reply New Topic

mine are.... disastrous
my texts and notebooks are stuffed with papers in no order, my room is litter with them
but
i know where everything is mentally so i see no problem
i'll have things from different classes in other books but i know if i need to look at the stuff where I put it
it would seem as though i'm completely unorganized but because i am well organized mentally, i can skip the external order

anybody else?

oh, and how's your handwriting

My handwriting is really good, and my papers are a bit messy, but the problem is my doodle. I literally doodle everywhere and on everything. It's so bad, I had to see a psychiatrist I doodled so much (unnecessary because they didn't discover anything and could have told them it was stimming [my mom thought I was going to "another world"]). So... yeah... the doodling...

lots of arrows to point to where stuff is at and poor hand writing

mostly organized but not neat hand writing.

notebooks are so 20th Century... I have databases...

I dunno...had them in school, before there were PCs...some crappy artwork, and notes on classes...

My notebooks were mostly empty. I would only take notes on some occasions just because I figured that people expect that it is better to take notes, so I did it sometimes just for the appearance. I can't write quickly enough to be able to listen to everything. I don't know how anyone does it.

I also have that way of organizing. My room is always extremely "messy", but I know where everything is. It just doesn't follow the conventional outward appearance that people expect of organization.

My handwriting is terrible. I thought it was fine until I noticed someone grossly misreading what I wrote. I also find that the act of signing something doesn't make any sense. I don't have a consistent "signature"--I just scribble something out fast, and it looks different everytime--but I wonder how a signature has any authority or security anyway.

Mine start out nice and neat, then quickly (ever so quickly) go straight downhill after that. By this point in the year, the ones I use frequently (there are a few classes where there's more or less no notes and no handouts, so those are still relatively clean) are stuff with papers to the point that the seams are breaking; notebook paper is in various stages of falling out of the three ring section, and if anyone besides me can find what they're looking for, it's a miracle. There are papers sticking out from the top, but they're usually bent to some extent from having been thrown in my locker; no matter how much I try, I can't get all of them to fit in neatly.

I doodle on just about everything, and I tend to start a new page of notes after a particularly horrible drawing (it happens sometimes, but not too frequently), regardless of how much the previous page was used. Most of the doodles repeat: eyes, faces (torsos if the faces are good enough and there's enough room), leaves, squiggles of various natures, trees, crosses. They're all in blue or red or black. There are also drawings on the front and sides of my binders, which are easily accessible when I'm not taking notes. Most binders have what's listed above, but two are different; one has a criss-cross pattern stitching up the side, with a small tree farther one, and one has just some fairly abstract stuff.

My handwriting changes a lot, depending on how bored I am, how much time I have to write the notes, and how I'm feeling. Most are in cursive and remain within the margins unless I run out of room for a certain section; my writing is also pretty large. It's hard for even me to follow some of them. I loop up to cross ts, slash xs, and dot is, instead of lifting the pen. My English teacher last year said that my writing didn't look like it should belong to me. I cross my sevens and write the 1s exactly how it's typed here (ie, with the ledge and the underline); apparently, I also cross my twos every once in awhile (I noticed it on a test today).

As for legibility... It depends on who you ask. About half the people have commented that I have such pretty writing, and the other half can't read it worth a flip. I can usually read it, so that's about all I care. If a group has to read them, I'll just tell them words that they don't know (if I catch them getting them wrong; some have slipped by before).

messy, messy notes. I squish words together, especially when i don't need to. Giant, swooping tails of G's, Y's, L's when I'm scribbling notes in a lecture. I feel like it's illegible but most people can read it pretty well.
Sometimes I'll write down random ideas that pop into my head, or funny quotes my teacher says, so I can laugh about it later.

Where is my homework? Flip through pocket dividers, pulling out folded papers. I'm in a hurry and I stuff al the papers back in to whatever folder is open. I will sort it out and clean it up later... Later... I still cant find it. Maybe one day I will get organized...
Thank god I use a computer at my job and the search function works.

Last edited by Mudboy on 01 Apr 2008, 12:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Mine are generally neat and organized, with good handwriting... but i write everything backwards. Also, you can tell which days I'm stressed, because there are random lists inserted into the notes...grocery lists with estimated prices, movie lists (I list all of the movies I own in alphabetical order), etc. I feel like this might be an OCD thing, but my shrink says it fits with AS. I'm not convinced.

Separate folder for each subject, no organization beyond that. My folders get stuffed with old papers and eventually start to fall apart (this is even worse with the plastic folders). I don't take notes, and my handwriting... I can't read it half the time, I don't know how my teachers are able to tolerate it.

I stopped using notebooks on account of a) I can read what I've written on the computer, and b ) the search tool is a life saver. The only exception is for screenings, when it's distracting for the other people for me to have a big shiny computer in a dark room.

My notebooks are more or less all doodles though. I never really took notes, just drew. On the computer I always find something else to play with (normally sketches to colour on photoshop or photos to edit/go through).

And my handwriting is more or less illegible anyway.

my handwriting is atrocious. i can still read it, but sometimes i'm the only one who can.

i dont use notebooks anymore for courses, as in grad school they arent really necessary, at least in my program. wahtever notes you have can be jotted down in the margin of the paper you're reviewing or something of that nature.

in my lab, my notebook is messy but i think that someone else could follow what i've done fairly well.

yeah, i don't really use notebooks much
i mean, i don't take notes unless i want to look and act normal
but i do have them for each course and most of the time i just open up a free page and write,..sometimes i date it
i once did the wrong excercises because i could not read my own writing

whatever
professors are just humans and overexaggerated intelligence species at best
i think they are arrogant and much dumber than they think
yeah, if i did the same subject for 20 years i could act that way too
but i'm dominating like 20 subjects at a time and they can't hang with that
i'll battle any professors mind on a fluid intelligence test
haha

I have only one notebook for everything. I can't see any point in keeping several notebooks, one for each course. Normally, an average lifetime of such a one is one semester but in last week I had to start a new notebook. Even though under normal circumstances my handwriting is praised as really pretty and easy to read, I don't have a habit to exert myself for this, writing during the lectures because then my handwriting is legible only for me. Margins are covered with drawings of cubes and women's faces.

Well, it's been 14 years since I was last in school & had notebooks, so...
I was super-organized, because I was terrified of being caught without something important, and/or not being able to find something. School & classes gave me great anxiety, which I dealt with by being extremely prepared, with a ton of materials, making sure I had everything ahead of time, in order I'd need it. My school locker was neat, tidy, and mostly empty.

My room (then, as now) is quite a mess, though knew where what I needed for school was-that was all that mattered, because it kept me safe from getting in trouble academically.
I often doodled (patterns, spirals, outlines & eyes) all over pages of notes-but not to extent that it interfered with the notes themselves.
My handwriting was neat (now it's less so, since my arms/hands are getting old & decrepit) back then-took oodles of notes, from books & lectures.