IMHO one needs to be aware of what type of flying one is trying to accumulate for some specific purpose.
For example, up to some years ago I used a standard CAA (Pooleys I think) logbook and when I went for the FAA CPL I had to go right through it and pick out all "cross country" flights i.e. ones with a GC distance over 50nm. This took a while (well, I mainly just picked out the really obvious ones like UK to Italy) and would have been quicker had I logged them separately at the time, which I have been doing since.
If there is no such likely future requirement then it hardly matters how you log it.
Once you have a certain set of papers then it becomes completely irrelevant what you log and how. I suppose you have to log your JAA PPL hours... enough to show you have done 12 in the last 2 years.