A Subject for a Notebook: Birthing Class!

One of my old posts that gets the most responses is 10 Uses for Spare Notebooks. I’m not sure why, but I guess a lot of people struggle to come up with ideas for what to write in notebooks, to the point that they actually search online for solutions to this problem and end up at my website. But there are a lot of other people out there who have no problem coming up with new and interesting things to write about in notebooks, sometimes devoting a single notebook to a very specific subject or project.
Here’s one such use– Austin Kleon’s birthing class notebook:

“I was cleaning my office and found the notebook I kept when my wife and I went to birthing classes. It’s one of those notebooks that puts me right back in the room where I filled it. (BTW: You forget 99.9% of this stuff when you’re in the room.)”

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Read more at Birthing class notebook. I actually think this is a great idea for a notebook, as any documentation of a child’s birth and development is fun for the child to see later, and this looks like a great combination of scrapbook and sketch-noting.

How about you? What’s the oddest or most specific single subject you’ve ever devoted a notebook to?

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