How to Organize Your Notebook
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Tired of not being able to find your homework and always losing your notes? This how-to can help.
Steps
- Check to make sure you can, in fact, use one big binder for all of your classes – sometimes teachers collect the notebooks and do checks, so you don’t want them to have to find the section that corresponds to their class. Also, if the check takes more than a day, you’ll be left without your materials for other classes. There’s usually a section in the syllabus that you received at the beginning of the year that details how a given teacher wants you to set up your notebook. Otherwise, follow the steps below.
- Throw away or recycle anything that you’re not going to need in the next few weeks. Toss out any doodles, or old worksheets of no reviewing help to you.
- Use your dividers to make a section for each of your classes.
- If you will need to take notes for a section in your binder store loose leaf paper at the ends of the sections.
- Put a three-ring plastic envelope in your binder to carry other supplies such as pencils, flashcards, and CDs.
- Put any homework due in the right sections so that they will be easy to find.
- Keep your notebook organized by checking each section and throwing away unwanted papers at the end of the school day.
- Remove staples before placing papers in your binder. You can do this easily by ripping off the part with the staple.
- Avoid using multipage stapled handouts without taking them out of the rings of the binder. (so that the rings don’t rip the holes of the pages).
- Keep your notes in the right sections. Also do your best to complete all sections of the notebook before your new job or new class.
Tips
- Write the date on all your notes and handouts.
- Try to get a pencil-holder with a three hole punch. (or a three-hole punch ruler. If you get the ruler, however, the plastic parts do tend to break and eventually the “ruler” will just be a very slender three hole punch.)
- Try to write neatly. If you’re rushing, and your handwriting is becoming illegible, stop and make arrangements with a friend nearby to copy them later.
- If your teacher likes to check your binder, make sure you have all the material they want and you didnt throw it away.
Warnings
- Don’t throw away every test or quiz you get back, you can study this for a mid year or final!
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Hey,
thank you very much for this great information. A few weeks ago I brought a netbook and it is really useful to organize it very well.