Notebooking. A noun turned into a verb. Not a particularly unique thing to do. But Notebooking, as a creative endeavor, is unique.

Notebooking started as a personal project. We had repeatedly bought notebooks at the bookstore, buying into the premise that having a notebook would make us more creative. Boy, were we wrong!

Owning a notebook doesn’t make you more creative. Carrying a notebook around doesn’t make you more intelligent. Writing whiny journal entries into your notebook doesn’t make you more interesting. And so after a while, most people give up. Their hopes are left unfulfilled as they declare themselves uncreative or lacking willpower. The truth is, most people fail not because they are uncreative, but because they don’t have a system for success. At least that’s why we failed to fill our first notebooks.

And our second. And third.

But eventually, we developed a system for success. Using Content Lists, Jot Points, Page Eaters (and more), we discovered that filling a notebook with individualized, creative content is an attainable goal.

We liked our system so much that we wanted to share it with others.  If you want to finally fill up those pages with entries you’ll be happy to hold onto for years to come, feel free to look around.

If you want to just dive in and learn as you go, check out our introductory article: How to Begin Notebooking