Many moms in their pursuit of organizational nirvana create The Household Binder. It goes by a variety of names -- Control Journal, Home Management Binder, Family Notebook-- but has a single purpose: a centralized location to store information, menus, schedules, and lists.
Most homemakers considered it the end of their struggles with keeping all the details of life contained, but I encountered some fundamental weaknesses of this notebook system every time I tried to use it :
