23 ideas on how to use a pocket notebook

We asked our Instagram community how they use their pocket notebooks, and here are 23 of our favourite answers.

• I use mine to track my favourite beers.
• I use small notebooks for writing & jotting poems, ideas & sent received letters.
• I use it to copy out my favourite poems.
• Make notes about my darkroom printing times and settings.
• I use a small notebook to go for my weekend appointments and Notes for the school. And at home a Filofax for my lists, wishes, notes, to do list and more.

• I would take a pocket notebook on my adventure to fulfil my lifelong dream: summit Mt. Everest.
• Plan the next steps of business growth in my office supplies company, which is underway, thus being acquisition of a local competitor!! Onward and upwards!!
• This would be my book bible, what I've read, what I've captured, what other books in the wild I'm hunting for.
• Start a bullet journal
• I would bring a pocket notebook with me everywhere I go and jot down notes, ideas, lists, and plans that pop up in mind.
• I use these for work-related notes: hospital visits, message ideas, study notes and a host of other things related to full time social work. There's a lot of information to write down!
• I use these as any other good pocket notebook: a replacement for a smartphone! All my contacts, dates, even my financing – I do it all on paper

• I would give one to my son so that every time he looked at it, it reminded him to just send his mother a little note to make her day.
• The perfect usage: use it for next semester classes and make the others in class jealous!
• If I looked back at my pocket notebooks in a few months' time I'd find notes about art, sketches and doodles, notes about teaching and writing, snippets of conversation and tiny maps... a rich resource for future letters, lessons and paintings.
• As a Phd student I'd use them for random Phd thoughts that pop into my head when I am out and about.
• The wife and I are doing some traveling this summer and I would write down all our adventures.
• I wanna use this sassy little notebook to make notes on my new Dungeons & Dragons campaign.

• I use them to log all of my runs and workouts!
• I use them as the perfect new bullet journal.
• I've make a flip book out of mine!
• I would use them to track all books read this year, quotable quotes and reviews!
• Celebrate the Autumn Equinox with drawings of falling leaves and scribbles with my Blackwing 'half the pressure twice the speed' of winter wishes still to come.

What will you do with your pocket notebook? The possibilities are practically endless, and we'd love to hear how you choose to fill your pages.