Thanks for your response! Well, I guess the reason I have the meta-notebook is precisely because I keep a lot of other notebooks. My usual practice is when I'm about to file away a notebook because it's completely filled, I'll read all of it one last time and then distill the most important ideas from it, which I write in the meta-notebook. So, the entire notebook to be archived away is reduced to a 1 or 2 pages in the meta-notebook. The meta-notebook summarizes what all my other notebooks contain. But then again, it works for me, and may or may not work for you, depending on your notetaking system. Well, I do hope it does!