I guess it kind of depends on what sort of notions we are talking about. I have a plethora of little notion type things. Like snaps and hook and eyes and that sort of thing. It was always a pain to find what I needed and no matter how organized I thought my drawer was, it always ended up looking like a junk drawer.
This will probably sound kind of silly, but I had one of those lazy susan type spice thingies that you can buy at Costco or wherever. I had used up the spices I normally used and had a bunch of jars full of stuff I had no idea what even was. It holds 20 jars. So I dumped all the jars and soaked them to get rid of the labels that were printed on. Then I sorted all my little things and each got there own little jar. It sits on a shelf and I can turn it to find the snap or whatever little thing I need.