Do You Like Printed Page Number In Your Notebook?

[amastronardi]

I'm curious about your preference about numbered pages in you notebook.

 

Cheers,

AM

[mwpannell]

Yes. I like them so much I add my own numbers when they're not there--and they're usually not there in what I buy. I like numbers because I always have the fanciful idea I'm going to create a magnificent, thorough index to my notebooks to be able to find all the important things I write. That never comes out quite as well as planned, but I still like numbers for that (potential) reason.

 

And I tend to like graph paper, then lined, and rarely blank.

 

(I think I may have misunderstood what you were getting at in your poll. Is it do you like numbers on lined or blank pages? Or just do you like lined or blank pages?. Probably the former, but on first read I voted as if it was the latter.)

Edited January 29, 2016 by mwpannell

[rafapa]

My ritual when starting a notebook includes adding page numbers. I don't know how to fill the poll because I only use dotted and squared paper.

[Mercian]

I voted ‘Yes’ to both.

But having paper that is FP-friendly is more important to me.
I have yet to find a notebook with FP-friendly paper AND numbered pages

[zwack]

I am using dot grid at the moment. Numbers are handy particularly if you are doing something like bullet journalling. I am using a Leuchtturm 1917 at the moment which has index pages and numbering.

[amastronardi]

My ritual when starting a notebook includes adding page numbers. I don't know how to fill the poll because I only use dotted and squared paper.

Sorry for not adding dotted and squared in the pool :-s

[mhguda]

I like numbered pages, but actually don't know if I like them printed: I add my own, it's part of taking possession of the notebook and starting to use it. Writing on every page before actually using the notebook... sort of increasing the pleasure of anticipation. If the pages come numbered I won't have that pleasure...

As to lined etc, I prefer blank but don't mind most of the others, except grid: I will only use a gridded page if the grid is very light-colored.

So I think in your poll I will say No to both questions. I write my own numbers, usually in the upper right corner, but other options have been seen as well...

[lacie]

No because pre-numbered notebooks all use the decimal number system.

[zwack]

No because pre-numbered notebooks all use the decimal number system.

 

And your preference would be?

 

Also do you prefer Arabic, Roman, or some other characters?

[lacie]

And your preference would be?

 

Also do you prefer Arabic, Roman, or some other characters?

 

 

Duodecimal. I use my own characters which are slightly modified arabic numerals in my notebooks because I like that I'm the only one who can understand it at a glance (it would be very quick for someone else to work out though).

 

Otherwise Arabic numerals with the addition of inverted 2's for 10 and 3's for 11 as it seems to be the commonly accepted notation.

 

I'm only just paying around with getting into duodecimal at the moment so don't ask me anything too complicated, I mostly use it for time and date stuff for fun.

[Bookman]

I prefer to write my own numbers when I want numbers. For my journal, the page numbers are continuing and sequential through disparate volumes, from February 1994 forward, now at page 4,176. Somebody else's page numbers would be confusing and unwanted. For subject notebooks I typically put a table of contents up front and I prefer to use lowercase Roman numerals for those pages.

[Piper 987]

. I am using a Leuchtturm 1917 at the moment which has index pages and numbering.

After trying I don't know how many different notebooks, I'm using large Leuchtturm 1917 dot grid hardcovers. They're awesome!

[Runnin_Ute]

I am using a Leuchtturm 1917 in A5 - dot grid pages. If it didn't have the numbers I would put put my own numbers. That is the way Red n Black is - lined, unnumbered. I don't normally use unlined pages in a notebook. If I do use an unlined book, it will probably to sketch in or something. I have some Rhodia pads (blank, dot pad, graph) and those types of things I don't want numbers. I use them mostly for letters.

[dogpoet]

If I need numbers, I sometimes have to add them.

If I don't, I can ignore them if they're there already.

[inkstainedruth]

I prefer blank pages but they're harder to come by for some reason. So my current journals are by Miquelrius (the big honking 300 page ones) and I just squeeze in two lines of writing for each line. As for page numbers, I don't use them. My journals are "write and forget" so I don't need page numbers. But if they're there I wouldn't particularly care one way or the other.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[vjones]

Theoretically I'd prefer pre-numbered pages, but not at the expense of other features. For example, paper quality would be more important to me than numbered pages. Also, of course, the aesthetics of the notebook would come into play as well.

[rafapa]

Theoretically I'd prefer pre-numbered pages, but not at the expense of other features. For example, paper quality would be more important to me than numbered pages....

That rulle out Leuchtturm Master series. The 100gms paper is not able to cope with fountain pen inks (at least in the 3 from different vendors I have)

[migo984]

No numbers for me. It would compromise flexibility e.g. occasionally I tear out a page, use a double-page spread, stick things in that would cover pre-printed numbers or even rotate book to change the format. I don't do anything as formal as a contents page either; numbering would be just a hinderance for me.

[2n7000]

I write page numbers in my notebooks, having them pre-printed would be nice.

[stonezebra]

I often think I would like page numbers in my journals but none of mine come with them and I'm too lazy to write them in (esp in the TR journal I'm using right now!). I did try to keep an index once but eventually realized my writing style doesn't really lend itself to indexing. LOL!