#25 How many notebooks are too many notebooks?
Dividing our notebooks by intended use makes abundant sense.
We wouldn’t write musings on our dating life or turn our hands at poetry in the notebook we have at the office and take to meetings, right?
… Right?
Owning multiple notebooks with healthy compartmentalisation is one thing, carting around a miniature library is another.
But I’m a sucker for a notebook.
There’s my personal journal, to-do list pad, work notebook, spiral-bound gym tracker, A3 sketchbook and spare writing pads galore.
I never carry all of them with me at once because I’d forever look like a turtle, buckling under the burden of a camping rucksack filled with notebooks.
But how many notebooks are too many notebooks?
In the cycling world there’s a well-worn saying that the number of bikes you should have is N+1, with N being the number you already own.
The same is true for notebooks, but only if you have a genuine reason and use case for that +1.
I know that for some people my own array of notebooks would be overkill, for others they’d be the tip of the iceberg.
But as long as we use them and enjoy them, we can never have too many notebooks.
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