Color-Coding

I’m a little obsessive about color-coding. I have notebooks and folders/binders in different colors for each class, with the color of the notebook and folder/binder corresponding to the highlighter color used to mark assignments down in my handy-dandy assignment book.

These colors correspond to the color of the calendar in ICal, as well, because, well, sometimes I go too far.

This is one thing that has really worked for me, though. It is easy to think, oh right, today is Tuesday, so I need my math book and my math notebook and my math binder, and then grab a binder and notebook and get to class and realize that your Shakespeare notebook will not be a lot of help. But if it is in your head that math is pink, and you need to grab the pink notebook and the pink folder, you, and by you, I mean, I, get the right notebook, and get to know what the hell is going on in class.