<p>In high school and middle school I always carried one binder with a zipper around it to keep everything together, but in freshman year of college I kept one one-inch plastic binder for each of my classes. Does anyone still use the big zipper binders in college?</p>
<p>No one carries a binder with a zipper, not even in community college.</p>
<p>Well, at my college, I’ve seen tons of zipper binders. However, the people who usually use them either:</p>
<p>a. Have one class with tons of notes, so that binder is for that class only.
b. Keep most of their notes on their computer and just keep general papers there.
c. Don’t take notes. Who knows what’s in them?</p>
<p>I prefer the individual binders in college. I find there’s so much more to write down and hang on to compared to high school that it’s much more efficient.</p>
<p>I just use a notebook that comes with a pocket folder for papers. This way, non hole punched papers coming my way wont annoy me.</p>
<p>I know that I’m gonna use separate folders and notebooks for each class. Anything else bugs the crap out of me, including regular 3-ring binders.</p>
<p>Separate. That way, you only bring what you need.
And, honestly, you must not be taking notes if all of them can fit in one notebook (if you don’t use a laptop, that is).
Most people I’ve seen have used notebooks and not binders. I don’t use binders because they are too bulky.</p>
<p>If you must use paper, use seperate notebooks. If you have classes on different days or gaps throughout a day, then you only have to carry the ones you need at that time. </p>
<p>I’d use a laptop though if you have one. I don’t know what I’d do without onenote.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Without even knowing, I started using individual binders. I don’t like to take notes on laptops because I’m kind of a traditional person and am used to taking notes with old-fashioned pen and paper.</p>
<p>If you economize 1 binder can work for 4-5 classes, even if it’s only an inch thick. Use the pockets, a hole puncher, and use front and back sides of paper.</p>
<p>i personally HATE binders, so next year i will be using my laptop for some of my classes and the traditional 1 subject notebook with pockets for the others.</p>
<p>I think even being used to/liking pen and paper, switching to laptop is the best in the long run. With Onenote it is basically an electronic binder. You can record lectures if you have an internal mic, and it’ll sync what your typing. So many times I’ll be studying for a test and need to remind myself about something. I just type in the term I want and it’ll find a match of that word and fastforward to that part of the lecture and I can listen to the lecture again. It beats flipping through pages, and you can record the audio on a piece of paper. Plus it’s better for the environment.</p>
<p>^ About the OneNote program, is it considered geeky? I think it’s a really cool idea, but it has some negative connotations for me.</p>
<p>I prefer the biggest fattest 5-subject notebook i can find, must have dividers WITH pockets on both sides.</p>
<p>Why would OneNote be considered geeky?</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of Onenote. I just don’t really like computers in general, but I’ll take a look.</p>
<p>I just bought one five-subject Mead notebook - it’s worked fine for me.</p>
<p>OneNote is proprietary. Livenote is freeware and works on several platforms (Windows, Mac, Iphone, Itouch, Smartphone, possibly linux, etc.) and it’s a little more chic. I personally think it’s pretty rad, it’s got inputs for handwriting, sound, video/picture, and plain text. You can tag your notes and put them in separate notebooks to keep them organized then it automatically backs-up to the internet where you can download it later to any computer you can install the client on. Sorry for going on about it, I just like the program quite a bit.</p>