How do you organise your notebooks (paper)?

[Teaandakitkat]

I like writing things down on paper. I don't get on very well with lists and apps on my phone or laptop. I like something I can hold.

I'm about to take on a lot more responsibility at work and I honestly don't know how best to organise myself. I feel like this is a skill I've never learned.

So if you use pen and paper, how do you do it?

Do you have different notebooks for different parts of your job? A different one for home? Or different sections within the same notebook? Different coloured pens?

I tend to just write things down as they occur to me but then nothing is really in order. Things don't follow on from each other and I have to keep looking back.

I have important things lost in amongst random things.

Do you have a separate section for action lists for example?

If you are an organised pen and paper user how do you do it?

I only run one A4 size book at a time. I always write the date each day, typically write out my to do list for the day and note down meeting times.
I tend to do project and ongoing work on the left hand page, so there is space to go back and add (always with additions dated)
I sometimes use highlighters for different projects and always use green or red pens when comparing data from two different months or years.
I add a sticker on the front of each notebook to say when notebook started and finished.
At the back of each notebook, I have important numbers like IT, etc and important file locations that I don't use regularly

you can get notebooks on Amazon that allow you to scan and store on your phone (for ease of sorting) - Oxford notebooks IIRC

scribzee is the app - it has marks in the corners of each page

I am going to sound awful now.
I have 4 note books at work

1. for training notes
2. for writing the above notes neatly
3. for random notes, this week I'm invoicing for month end, so writing figures in 4 lists as I'm invoicing work for 4 people.
4. my todo list, I add to it and scribble out through the day, check it off before I go home

I have a set of 3 trays where I keep these organised.

At home I have a diary which I add stuff too
An excel spreadsheet I track stuff on
A notebook a keep in the hallways so I can write things to remember, dh adds to this too

I’m starting a degree in October OP and was panicking slightly about keeping on top of everything.
I’ve bought loads of notebooks in the past for different topics and always started off with good intentions but I realised I hate crossing out, I felt it spoilt the notebook

So I’ve invested in some lovely coloured erasable pens. They’ve been a bit of a game changer and makes it so much easier to keep the notebook tidy!

Two notebooks. One is the ultimate keeper. Only core info that is needed year to year is written in it. It’s not half full and it’s 16 years old!
Daily notebook. To do lists written in each day and crossed out. Once whole page is done I put a line through it so I can scan notebook quickly.
Longer term to do lists and notes are scattered throughout which doesn’t work well and after reading this I’ll maybe put them at the back.