Creating Sections and Pages 551
A new notebook contains one untitled section and one untitled page. You can easily cre-
ate new pages on which to collect information and subdivide pages into subpages. You
can also create new sections in which to organize the pages. You can further organize
information by grouping sections together in section groups.
So how do you know whether to create a page, subpage, section, or section group? The
answer is determined by the following:
● The nature of the information you are collecting. In a Customer Records notebook,
you might want to include a section for each client, and in a Project Records note-
book, you might want one section per project.
● The volume of information. There is no point in collecting information unless you
can quickly and easily retrieve it when you need it. On an ideal page, all the infor-
mation is visible at a glance, without too much scrolling. If you have to scroll, may-
be some of the information should be organized on subpages. Similarly, in an ideal
section, all the pages and subpages are visible at a glance on the Page Tabs Bar. If
there are too many page tabs, maybe some of the pages should be organized in
new sections. And if not all the sections are visible in the notebook header at a
glance, maybe it’s time to organize the sections in section groups.
The important thing to remember is that the organizational structure of a notebook
should be dynamic—in other words, it should change as the information in the note-
book changes.Creating Pages and Subpages.
When first created, each section contains one blank, untitled page. You can add plain
blank pages, blank pages of a special size or with a special background, or specialized
pages containing content templates for you to replace with your own content.
Blank page options include the following:
● Specific sizes, including Statement, Letter, Tabloid, Legal, A3–A6, B4–B6, Postcard,
Index Card, and Billfold
● Simple backgrounds, including College Ruled, Small Grid, or 16 solid colors
● Nearly 70 decorative backgrounds displaying illustrated or photographic elements
in the title bar, corner, margin, or background of an otherwise blank page