<p>State your preference and why!</p>
<p>I prefer folders, mostly because they weigh next to nothing. binders mean that I need to hole punch.</p>
<p>I've always been a notebook person, but I've been thinking about it, and I think binders will be a good way to go. Notebooks may be more compact, but binders accomodate more paper and you can rearrange your notes, if need be!</p>
<p>i am not sure, notebooks and i go together well and binders like to break on me.. binders don't like me. but i used to use binders like all the time</p>
<p>Some of my teachers require binder checks, so I am forced to conform to binders. Otherwise, I use notebooks for notes, and binders to organize loose leafs, or loose paper. REASON: It's easier to find things/more organization</p>
<p>I was a strictly binder person in high school. I'm thinking of switching over to notebooks and folders in college though.</p>
<p>i love notebooks with perferrated paper and pockets in them already. Also, i like to keep my **** color coated and labeled. Notebooks hands down</p>
<p>i use a combination of both.</p>
<p>"i love notebooks with perferrated paper and pockets in them already. Also, i like to keep my **** color coated and labeled. Notebooks hands down"</p>
<p>i agree with this completely</p>
<p>... and college professors don't do "binder checks"</p>
<p>i would like notebooks, except i'd feel weird carrying an abundance of PAPER that i won't need, every day. At least with a binder, i can control the amount of paper i carry daily..as in, just the amount i need to get through the day. if you really think about it, 100 extra sheets of paper is pretty heavy to carry around considering you won't be using it all at once any given day.</p>
<p>and another thing, i hate, absolutely HATE, is how the corners of notebooks get messed up after about two weeks of carrying it around in your bag. if its a spiral, its even worse - the wires on the edges of the spine get bent in, making the pages difficult to turn. even if the notebook has perforated pages, the outer corners get bent. i'm kind of a neat freak by nature, so when a paper doesn't look flat and fresh, i feel unmotivated to write on it. Haha. So thats my OCD tendency.</p>
<p>LOL, I feel the same. I hate it when the corners and edges get bent and/or dirty. Not only that, I hate it when there are imprints on the pages beneath what you are writing. So binders all the way. More convenient in organization. Though I tend to stick things in the pockets anyways. But I hate how the holes are ripped slightly.</p>
<p>ok.. i'm anal retentive... so i bring a binder with loose paper.. copy my notes in whatever manner.. and re copy them later in a notebook... i don't have time during class to make notes the way i want with arrows and all that.. plus it has to be neat.. and relatively color coded or i'll die.. i have a system.. hahah..</p>
<p>I use a binder for all the classes within my major, and notebooks for everything else. The binder helps me keep all those classes together and build on year by year, and the notebook is just so much lighter and more convienent for everything else (i.e. gen eds).</p>
<p>I keep notebooks for classes like biology where you may need to flip back to notes a couple of months old in order to understand a concept. for everything else i keep a binder.</p>
<p>I hate binders and side-spiral notebooks because I'm left-handed and the rings get in the way. I'm a fan of note-pad style spiral notebooks with perforated pages.</p>
<p>I'm als left-handed and hate how the rings in binders get in my way. The world is against left-handers, I tell ya. However, I don't mind side spiral notebooks, they don't get in my way so much. So I use notebooks for notes. But here's what I like to do. I put folders and my notebook in a binder together. That tends to work for me.</p>
<p>I am left handed too but then I realized that it doesnt really matter because the rings or spirals are always going to be on one side of hte paper and you could always just use the backside first.</p>
<p>But I also have now taken a liking to notebooks that have hte spiral on top. It never gets in the way and seems to hold inserted papers better.</p>
<p>Another leftie here :-) I prefer binders (I take out the page I'm writing on and use the cover as a desk (since for some stupid reason our largest lecture halls don't have lefthanded desks)). A lot of my professors use handouts with diagrams and such, so it's really nice to print these off before class, hole punch them, then write notes on the back. I remember things when diagrams are involved, so I can usually remember what page the note is on that I need.</p>
<p>I'm right-handed and SOMEHOW the only notebooks I bought were for left-handed people (Five Star makes these). It was horrible and I didn't want to deal with returning them for righty ones.</p>
<p>I'm a binder person; I can't stand the bent corners of notebooks (I've been scratched by them on numerous occasions) and I hate the imprints. Gah.</p>
<p>I used only binders in high school and plan on continuing the same thing in college because I like to take notes on blank unlined paper. Is there any need for lined paper in college?</p>