Binder or notebooks?

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Skeletor

601 Posts

The debinding ideas are priceless. Making "mini" books; it's the little things in life that help us out during school. Thank you for sharing them.

onlyfaith

36 Posts

Specializes in Emergency Dept..

For me, it all depends on the professor's teaching style. I love PPT slides that I can just print out and add my own notes. When a professor already has notes that I can download and print out, I find no use for a notebook.

coolpeach

1,051 Posts

Specializes in ER/Ortho.

For the major science classes I always used a big binder with dividers. This way I could put my lab manual inside, and always have it with me. I had a section for graded work, handouts, and of course notes. I kept fresh notebook paper in the front for taking notes, but always rewrote them when I got home (thats why a spiral wouldn't work well). I found this worked great as everything always stayed together in one place, and I never lost or forgot anything.

serendipity123

192 Posts

I just graduated HS in Spring, but I've found in my experience that it depends on the class. I bought several of both that I will try out to see which works better in each class. I've heard that some classes (mainly labs) require notebooks, but I guess I will have to see!

kasia2

199 Posts

Definitely both, I like binders and traditional notebooks, I just can't imagine writing down my notes on loose leaf paper so for writing notes I use regular 5-subjects notebook, I just remove the subject dividers so I can have a thick notebook for one class, and not use 5 seperate notebooks for one class, but yeah definitely notebook fan.

3rdgenRN2B

431 Posts

I like a big binder...oh and I love those clear plastic page protectors for handouts. I'm a lefty so for me, writing in a spiral notebooks has always been a bit of a challenge. I like to scribble my notes on looseleaf and then re-write them when I get home. I find it helps to re-enforce the material. However, I really like the idea of typing my notes as well, i may have to try that.

masstudent

89 Posts

I like a big binder...oh and I love those clear plastic page protectors for handouts. I'm a lefty so for me, writing in a spiral notebooks has always been a bit of a challenge. I like to scribble my notes on looseleaf and then re-write them when I get home. I find it helps to re-enforce the material. However, I really like the idea of typing my notes as well, i may have to try that.

From one lefty to another, have you ever found the notebooks that are made specifically for lefties? I have never used one since I have gotten so used to the spiral binding being on the left hand side. These "special" notebooks are also more expensive. There used to be a store called the Lefty Store in Boston but I believe it has gone out of business. You might also try flipping to the back of a spiral bound notepad and start writing from the back toward the front so the spiral is on the right hand side.

Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.

i like 3 ring binders myself. i like being able to 3hole punch & put notes/handouts/test back in chronological order if i get something back. with a spiral i cant do that :(

-ill use a spiral notebook if its just one simple class, but for many the 3 ring wins!!

CT Pixie, BSN, RN

3,723 Posts

A 3 ring binder works best for me. I put a "page protector" in the front where I put the syllibus, then a divider to seperate, and then I put a nice big pocket type folder, but its not like the folders w/pockets, its like an envelope type thing that expands and has 3 holes in it so I can put it in my binder.

I keep a lot of loose leaf notepaper in the binder. I hate notebooks.

goldenngrrl

31 Posts

I have always been anti-binder until I got to A&P. I used to hate carrying them around and I preferred my notebooks much more, but once I got to A&P there were just too many notes and handouts that I broke down and bought a binder this weekend (which I still haven't filled with all my stuff yet :idea:)

jla623

376 Posts

Specializes in SICU/CVICU.

I carry a notebook and I stuff it with random loose papers, but I wouldn't recommend that.

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