How to Make Your Own Loose Leaf Binder Notebooks.
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- I use loose leaf binders to hold my ukulele and piano sheet music. I also have books I've written stored on binders. I have my family tree including hundreds of pages of notes and family stories in a binder. There are lots others! You'll need a binder, a hole puncher, paper, and a printer.
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Benefits to loose leaf over comb binding: Simpler. Hard cover. Less apt to self-destruct! If you have a printer, this is very easy and low cost to do!
How to Make Your Own Loose Leaf Binder Notebooks. Why I Use Loose Leaf Binder Instead of Comb Binding. Here Are Some of My Many Uses for Loose Leaf Notebook. Make Your Own!
Walmart is probably the cheapest place to find new binders - especially if you go in late August or early September durring the back to school sales. Magnetic style Trapper Keepers are back in style now as a nostalgia. 5 Star & Avery products go on sale for mere pennies on the dollar as well. I like to add Avery folder dividers tabs to sections so I can quickly organize new sheets that I have not hole punched yet.
You can also still get single hinged rings (usually sold with index cards) and move the alignment of your hole punch around and get 6 or even 9 hole punched books.
They also still sell those brass tabs that you insert into the holes and then flare out at the end but they are more of a craft item than a usable book making binding system in my regard. They could be a less bulky solution to binder clips.
I much prefer paper copies to screens because note-taking is far easier and the screen glare can render digital version useless.
I love my index cards and have found photo abulm systems at dollar stores that have pockets meant for photos that the index cards fit into.
Avery sell packs of single page/index tabs that have stickers on themselves you can just add your own indexes to the sides of each page.
I have repurposed my old index card accordian files to sort bandaids and coupons.
I always but old file folder jackets at yard re/sales as my daughter uses a paper trimmer to cut that thick cardstock into greeting cards and small canvases.
You sound like a kindred spirit. Some people just like this kind of stuff!! Rich
You can add a table of contents, and divider tabs and more!
I much prefer the b&w LASER printers and scanners. The powdered toner does not "go bad" nor is at expensive as the inkjet regills. B&W laser prints use heat to keep the ink on so you can colorize them with markers or water colors very easily. You can also coat canvas with a transfer gesso, slap a b&w laser print copy on it, let it dry, wet the paper until it rubs off and now you have a print.
You can be as elaborate or as simple as you want. Your binder can be your whole life or just a place to keep stuff. Thanks for bringing out many additional good points!! Rich
I also use the 3-ring binder system of storing music I have learned to play & need to refer
to paper copies to play.
I have one 1" 3-ring binder for
favorite music plus another 2"
binder to store less favorite music. Works adequately.
When the current binder gets too
full, I move some pages into the
inactive larger binder.
My problem is arranging the music. In addition to putting tabs on some favorites, I arrange by
music rhythm. One section for
3/4 time. Another section for Island strum. etc.
I just keep my songs in alphabetical order. You can make notes on the music which strum, picking pattern to use.😊😊
@@richdavis4007 I do have handwritten notes on each piece of
music. Maybe some day I will rearrange to file alphabetically.
But, I'm afraid I would forget the
titles of many songs. Then, you have to decide if you use the first word of
The.
I could also arrange by category of music.
Folk songs, rock songs, pop songs, etc.
I have one section at the back for
all the holiday music I play.
From Danny Boy & the Unicorn on St.Patricks Day,
to Feliz Navidad & Silver Bells for Xmas, Auld Lange
Syne for New Years Day, etc
I have the title of the song at the top of the page in large bold letters. That's what simplifies the process for me. A, B, C.
@@richdavis4007 Of course, at the top of each page of music, I have the
title in large bold letters.
But, I don'f arrange alphabetically.
There was no need in the beginning.
Now that number of songs has grown, I may re-arrange them.
@@phyllismorris94 I would like to think of myself as a good librarian in everything I do. Ho ho. Of course, I'm not! All you have to do is look at my ukulele collection scattered all over the house.
I have been using an Avery 3-ring binder for over a year to store my paper copies of music I am learning & play often on ukulele. I had upgraded from a smaller size binder.
The binder has grown to 109 pieces of music. Yikes. Today I finally capitulated and organized re-arranged the
pages Alphabetically, but still
retaining a few sections for categories of music and using
tabs to label some favorites.
I love the Avery binders. My pages of music have gotten
so worn that I had to put those
reinforcements on the holes.
Thanks for sharing your experience with binders for sheet music. I hope your new system will work for you super!
A rebuttal.
3 ring binders once were plentiful and cheap (often free in an office environment when vendor binders could be change by removing marketing inserts on front and binder). I was shocked to find them at $7.5 and up in “dollar store” and stationary supply store. 3 post report covers are getting rare since homework is being transmitted electronically. The ones you can get are in the $2 range.
I got a second hand comb punch for $14. A box of 50 combs on eBay for $10 (shipped). That seemed economical to me.
I also have a three hole punch and a laser printer. And have the capacity to remove cartridge chip so that I can use knock off toner replacements.
Thanks for giving me a topic I'm passionate about to make a video on. Visit me in northeast Alabama and I'll gladly give you 50 binders! If you have a decent thrift store close by you should get for dirt cheap. Here's a 2 pack of highly rated binders for $5 each. That will save you a trip to the store and a lot of pain and anguish when you deal with comb notebooks.
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Break the cycle of stupidity 🤣. Great video! I'd rather make my own as well. U should sell that color printer and make some coin off it then if you're not using it😁
Good point about selling the color printer. Right now it's functioning as a prop for my daily planner. Thing is, though, I might have need of it some day. I have used it for printing colorful bookmarks and small booklet covers. Color printers are amazing if you really require color.
@@richdavis4007 They are amazing. I have one that does both but I also never live for "one day I may need it". I just go to the local library to print in color if I didn't have one 🤣. But then again my local library is a few minute walk from my house.
You've got me wanting to ink up my color printer and start using it again!!