My current notebook system is a collection of composition books—the cheap kind that one can get at a big box store for $0.99 a pop. Each one lasts me around a month. Once the book is finished, I go back and compile a list of topics and references. That’ll work as an index, and since each book is only around 200 pages, it shouldn’t take too long to find what I was looking for.
I only really use it for math at the moment, though.
The other system I have is a tickler file, except instead of the folders being days, they refer to whatever I need to learn more about before continuing on with whatever paper is inside the folder.
My current notebook system is a collection of composition books—the cheap kind that one can get at a big box store for $0.99 a pop. Each one lasts me around a month. Once the book is finished, I go back and compile a list of topics and references. That’ll work as an index, and since each book is only around 200 pages, it shouldn’t take too long to find what I was looking for.
I only really use it for math at the moment, though.
The other system I have is a tickler file, except instead of the folders being days, they refer to whatever I need to learn more about before continuing on with whatever paper is inside the folder.
Is that why you are a paper machine?
Well, not exactly. The name actually comes from a book by Derrida.