We provide girls with financial and material support for school basics like decent clothes, notebooks and menstrual products in a context where one month's supply can cost as much as 20 meals.
I was known mainly in school for having a backpack bigger than I was and always having white-out on my hands, because I hated seeing anything crossed out in my notebooks.
However, if you're thinking of your notebook as the ultimate source of information when studying, it will be important to think of your handwriting and, most of all, of how you arrange the spacing of your page.
No, this is just a simple habit where you write down exactly what you got done on a day-to-day basis in something really simple like an Evernote account or a notebook or just your arm, whatever.