Organised Stationery

[DanielM]

So I was wondering how everyone stays organised stationery wise? I'm doing English, Biology, Chemistry, French and Specialist Maths next year...What would you recommend I use to keep all handouts and notes organised. I use notebooks to take notes (hate loose leaf) but I'm thinking of scrapping binder folders and maybe using those cardboard document wallets or maybe display folders for all handouts. Any thoughts/ideas?

Btw, the reason I'm scrapping binder folders is because I find that all plastic pockets rip off and paper starts falling out (gets ripped at the holes).

[nisha]

Stationary is like my second obsession, and so I went all out the summer of '12 getting organised.
For each subject, I had colour coded folders. It depended really on what subject I would do, but let me give you an example:::

Chemistry -green binder folder-> to keep all my plastic pockets
inside the binder I would have several exercise books (that have the holes on them so it was attachable with the folder) where i would write all my notes and another exercise book for exercises.
-> A manilla folder for very important handouts
-> Inside the green manilla folder there would be 5cent exercise books that I would use each lesson re-doing my notes for a second time to consolidate knowledge
-> Green dividers (where i would have my data booklet)

3 months into year 12 I started to become lazy and thats where I couldn't be bothered keeping all this up.

[yearningforsimplicity]

So I was wondering how everyone stays organised stationery wise? I'm doing English, Biology, Chemistry, French and Specialist Maths next year...What would you recommend I use to keep all handouts and notes organised. I use notebooks to take notes (hate loose leaf) but I'm thinking of scrapping binder folders and maybe using those cardboard document wallets or maybe display folders for all handouts. Any thoughts/ideas?

Btw, the reason I'm scrapping binder folders is because I find that all plastic pockets rip off and paper starts falling out (gets ripped at the holes).

I miss being obsessed with stationery! Ever since Uni started, all I bring is a pen or two seeing as I type my notes out more and tutes don't always involve a lot of writing! So sad! I didn't even get excited at the start of this year when all the back to school catalogues came out (yes I am that nerdy LOLOLOLOLOL)

anywaaays when I was in VCE what I did was use a binder folder for Eng (to divide TR, context and LA) - the 4 ring ones are the best  though, the 2 ring ones suck because they don't hold papers tightly in place loool.

For all my other subjects, I used those "3/4/5 subject notebooks" - but I like used 1 five subject notebook (was around 300 pages) for ONE subject. hahaha it was so efficient I thought! and each of them lasted me for the whole year yay! (except psych which only got me through a semester..too many learning activities haha)

and manilla folders/display plastic pocket folders/document wallets are good for spare handouts and what not - but the 3/4/5 subject notebooks have little sleeves in them for handouts too