A square-ruled notebook, and a few pens of different colors. There is something really satisfying about writing in a physical notebook that note-taking apps have failed to capture for me.
It depends on what kind of notes I'm taking, but I'll often put page numbers on the pages when I first get a notebook. I'll devote the first page or two to a table of contents and use sticky notes to keep track of where I am in the book. I don't have a good system for searching between notebooks, but I keep the notebooks restricted to a topic. For example, I presently keep three notebooks: the first is my to-do list for my personal life (including my shopping list, etc.), the second is something similar for work (focusing on the current project I am working on), and the third is tied to a particular side project I am working on. I keep them in my backpack and have them marked so I can easily tell which is which.
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