Notebook vs. Binder

[The_Flying_Skeptic]

I'm debating over whether binders are better than notebooks or vice versa.

Pro Binders:

• you can organize papers of different subjects in your binder at any time
• you can remove paper easily
• bulk paper is less expensive
• easy to incorporate 'used paper' or unwanted blank sides of someone's half used paper
• you always have a hard surface to write on (depends on the binder)
  

Pro Notebooks

• paper doesn't accidently tear out as easily
• notebooks are usually smaller than binders (variable)
  

what do you prefer: a binder or a notebook? can you come up with more reasons to use a notebook or to use a binder? is there just some information that is better placed in a notebook rather than in a binder?

[Eilonnwy]

I don't like writing in binders.

[Meatball]

Fuck binders, man.

I don't need big ass metal coils getting all up in my face while I'm trying to write shit down. Binders aren't even a logical shape. How the hell am I supposed to stack all these variously sized wedges.

FUCK binders.

[Paul the Human]

I'm with Meatball. The wedge shape is a pain in the ass. And, as a left-handed person, writing in a binder is an even bigger pain in the ass. And if you're not left-handed... you should be.

[Rhizomorph13]

Doesn't left-handedness mean you are evil or something? You know, like Gingers have no souls and freckled people stood too close to cows when they were young?

[The_Flying_Skeptic]

(9th June 2010 22:56)Meatball Wrote:  Fuck binders, man.

I don't need big ass metal coils getting all up in my face while I'm trying to write shit down. Binders aren't even a logical shape. How the hell am I supposed to stack all these variously sized wedges.

FUCK binders.

nice one dude. i didn't think of that: it's easier to stack notebooks. but if you only have one binder, you can stack your different subjects in folders later if you want.

[Caecilian]

I like binders.

TFS didn't mention three cardinal virtues of binders:

You can change the order of things in a binder.

If you have a newer/ improved version of something, you can replace the older/ out-of-date version with the newer one.

You can put all sorts of stuff in your binder- articles that you've printed out, diagrams, whatever. The content of notebooks is much more limited.

Lets stand up for binders!!!

[The_Flying_Skeptic]

(10th June 2010 00:42)Caecilian Wrote:  I like binders.

TFS didn't mention three cardinal virtues of binders:

You can change the order of things in a binder.

If you have a newer/ improved version of something, you can replace the older/ out-of-date version with the newer one.

You can put all sorts of stuff in your binder- articles that you've printed out, diagrams, whatever. The content of notebooks is much more limited.

Lets stand up for binders!!!

come on, i said the first one.

[Caecilian]

(10th June 2010 00:47)The_Flying_Skeptic Wrote:  come on, i said the first one.

Yeah, okay. But only implicitly.

I am beginning to suspect you of being biased against binders.

Since binders are sacred, you and the other anti-binder miscreants will surely burn in hellfire for this.

[fr0d0]

Use a punched A4 notebook and pull out the sheets and bind them when done. Bound notebooks are for chronologically recordings.