Advantages of journals and notebooks to students.
People have at some time used or are currently using a notebook, a journal, or even both. For those who have not, today I will be telling you all about the reasons why you should never lack these books in your life. The difference between the two should help you tear them apart and know when to use a notebook and when to use a journal. A notebook is used to jot down important information that is key to what you are studying so that you don’t forget or for further review on your own after the session is over. Journals, on the other hand, are a reflection of a person’s activities of the day, it can range from what they have been doing to what they have learned throughout the day—some of the advantages of a journal and a notebook.
Advantages of a notebook
- Key in important points
Notebooks come in handy, especially when you are learning something new, and you come across a vital point, and you are afraid that it might slip your mind later. It helps you review your work then reminding yourself what you might have forgotten after the session.
- Enhance learning
Did you know the more senses that are involved in learning, the more likely it is to have a better understanding? Using notebooks to write short notes as you are learning something orally helps you grasp to grasp the concepts much more quickly and for longer.
- They are easily portable.
Sure, even laptops are portable and can be used to keep notes, but can they be carried around in your pockets. Don’t they have the feeling that comes with scribbling something in your handwriting .what if it was an emergency meeting or unplanned meeting that caught all of you unaware? With a notebook, you can never be caught unaware as they can easily fit in pockets.
Advantages of journals
- Help keep track of our day
It helps us keep track of what we have been doing anything interesting that happened worth remembering. Journals may also act as a future reference when we are trying to recall events of a specific date
- Can be used when reshuffling a person’s day to day activities
Due to its nature of recording a person’s daily activity chronologically, one can be able to revisit and see what activities in his schedule don’t add much value to your life and replace them with others that can be of much help.
- Acts as a confidant to our lives
People write all sorts of secrets bad and good things that happen in our lives; it allows us to unburden ourselves without judgment; hence can be quite therapeutic to people who own them.
With all these advantages for owning both a notebook and a journal, it would be an injustice to yourself not to own one.