flashcards VS vocabulary notebooks What is your opinion about these two very common study tools? Which one do you think is better? Which one do you use? Maybe some have not seen the type of vocabulary notebook I am referring to, so here is a picture. It can have two columns or three columns (if you need to write an IPA transcription / Pinyin / Kana) http://quovadisblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/005.jpg I have just RE-discovered vocabulary notebooks and found out that they work very much like flashcards if you cover columns with your hand when you test yourself. You can get more words into a notebook, then if you were to write each word on a separate flashcard and you can write series of words in sequence when exploring different words in the same category (all the colours in the particular language, or words that all use a particular kanji). You are also less likely to lose your notebook, which can happen with flashcards. But there is the issue of bulk, it's more heavy to carry. And you cannot rearrange the words when testing yourself, which you can do with flashcards.