Here’s the latest update on my daily carry notebooks, or at least frequently used notebooks. The COVID-19 pandemic means I’m not necessarily going somewhere everyday, other than for a walk around my neighborhood, so I’m not actually “carrying” my notebooks much.

My most frequently used notebooks are:

• The 2021 Nolty Efficiency Notebook Gold, where I jot my daily diet, exercise, appointments and to-do lists, as well as tracking habits and keeping lists. If I do go out for errands, etc, this notebook always comes with me.
• The Nolty Notebook, which I’ve been using for journal entries and other random jottings.
• A Moleskine Sketchbook, for drawing. Sometimes the Moleskine and the Nolty Notebook are also in my bag if I go out, but lately, I tend to leave them at home as I barely go anywhere other than grocery shopping.
• The Printfresh wirebound notebook lives on my desk and contains all my job-related jottings and to-do lists.
• The small Clairefontaine notebook is an older one I’ve had for a while. I started using it for my French class notes, which seemed appropriate for such an iconic French notebook brand! This pretty much lives on my desk too, now that I do my class exclusively by Zoom.
• Not in this photo is a Nolty Efficiency Diary with a regular plastic cover in green, which I am using as an image diary. I paste in a small image each week, just random things I’ve found interesting or inspiring. It will be my third year doing this, and I am kind of enjoying the results as something to flip back through later on.

I am pretty content with this current set-up, except for one thing. I am not totally happy with one of these notebooks. Can you guess which one it might be? I will tell you soon in a separate post!