I usually carry a notebook with me, not field notes, but generic notebooks in the ISO A7 form factor. I prefer dotted, but grid or just white pages is fine too. Not a fan of lines though.
I structure it similar to the "bullet note" system. I use it for a lot of stuff:
It's a calendar, Todo list, contains lists of stuff like present ideas for friends or diy projects I came up with, a future planner, a diary (I summarize how I feel about each day in a single sentence as a sort of ritual) as well as a reference book for notes I don't want to forget. I dump ideas, creative thoughts etc. in there.
It looks like shit compared to those scrapbook images you see online with cute pictures and everything, but it's for me, not to show others after all. It's well structured and that's all that matters to me.
Basically it's a way to offload shit from my brain so I don't have to bother with it. Be it chores, deadlines, ideas I might forget, reoccurring thought loops I want to get rid of, etc.
I also sometimes write my thoughts out because it helps me organize them. I usually do that digitally but when I am camping or hiking, I prefer paper. The only drawings I have in there are sketches for projects with dimensions and stuff.
>>2696063I can't speak for other anons, but for me paper is just superior to the phone as a way to formulate and record thoughts. My phone has various software restrictions that force me to conform to them. Paper does no such thing, I can much more freely write on it. The only alternative that would work would be some free form drawing/note app , but those never felt good to me no matter which one I tried. Everything I do with my notebook can technically be done on a phone, but nothing can be done as well. The difference is large enough to me that it's worth carrying an additional thing with me.
