Kept my notebook going the whole time honestly. Drawings are great for seeing cuts and fills but they lose all the stuff notes actually capture, like which square a point came from or how many flakes were in the screen. I tried switching to just profiles halfway through a survey last summer and lost track of three feature tags because the drawing showed where they were but not what I'd called them. What worked better for me was keeping the notebook and adding a quick sketch on the same page, so the layers and the labels live together. The drawing shows you the pit house cutting down, sure, but it doesn't tell you the Munsell color or whether that charcoal was in situ. Do you back up the profile with anything written or is the drawing your whole record now?

Doing just two categories is the move. I tried the full cash thing years ago and lasted maybe 10 days before I gave up. What stuck for me was gas and coffee, weird combo but those were my two money leaks. I'd pull $60 a week, $40 for gas and $20 for coffee, and once the coffee cash was gone I made it at home. It made me actually think about every $4 latte instead of just swiping and not caring. The rest of my budget stays on my card so I'm not walking around with a wad of ones like a weirdo. Small scale works way better than trying to do everything at once.