Commonplace Book Project

Hello! I'm thinking of starting a new commonplace book, and I watched a ton of videos on YouTube.

Maybe too many videos, because now I can't decide on what type of journals to use, if I should go with ruled paper or graph paper and so on and so forth.

My main concerns are:

should I use a pocket size or A5 size?
ruled, graph or dotted paper?
bound journals or something like the filofax system?

Since it'll be something I do for memory keeping, I'd like for the notebooks to be the same size, easy to archive once finished and easy to replace or refill. Plus I'd like for the paper to be ink friendly, so not too thin but not too heavy either. I'm planning to use highlighters and even maybe brush pens.

I have unused notebooks I could use for this little project of mine, but some of them seem to be hard to get online (I bought them in bookstores before the pandemic).

So any advice on how to approach this matter? Do you do commonplacing and what notebooks/supplies you use?

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