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Ok. Let me try to spoil you. You are looking for this https://plotterusa.com And here is a review from Fatih Arslan at https://arslan.io/2025/02/24/plotter-notebook-system/
Their largest one, which is smaller than a standard piece of paper, starts at $200 and goes up to $270. For a notebook. With what might be proprietary refills. What.
Another solution for this is a notebook with removable pages, you can scribble all you want and if you decide later you don’t need that page in this notebook you can take it out (toss it, store it, or reorganize to a different notebook) and add fresh paper as needed. It’s also handy to be able to reorder pages if you’re bouncing between purposes, and gives you the option to have a mix of papers if sometimes you want…
Is this a so-called humble brag? FYI my notebooks are messy, unorganized and dirty (from lying unprotected in my backpack). I rarely use it because I always lose the pen after each scribble.
Eventually I got over it now and just use them as places to scribble ideas and don't care if it's ugly. I find that over the years I just started caring more about getting the thing I wanted to accomplish done than making sure I had a pristine record of the thoughts that led up to it. Maybe it's an age thing.
I've been trying binders instead of notebooks (especially the mini-binders from folks like Maruman). Binders allow you to easily remove and add pages (and tabs, dividers, etc). This gives you the satisfaction of making something aesthetically pleasing, while also knowing you can move a 'messy' page somewhere else.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok. Let me try to spoil you. You are looking for this https://plotterusa.com And here is a review from Fatih Arslan at https://arslan.io/2025/02/24/plotter-notebook-system/
Their largest one, which is smaller than a standard piece of paper, starts at $200 and goes up to $270. For a notebook. With what might be proprietary refills. What.
I've been trying binders instead of notebooks (especially the mini-binders from folks like Maruman). Binders allow you to easily remove and add pages (and tabs, dividers, etc). This gives you the satisfaction of making something aesthetically pleasing, while also knowing you can move a 'messy' page somewhere else.
Ok. Let me try to spoil you. You are looking for this https://plotterusa.com And here is a review from Fatih Arslan at https://arslan.io/2025/02/24/plotter-notebook-system/
Whenever I get a new notebook, I immediately scribble on the front page before I have a chance to stop myself. There. It's tainted and imperfect. And then I've given myself permission to make messy notes, and jot down just whatever, rather than treating it like some museum-grade archive.
I’ve always had an aversion to people that make neat notes. Anecdotally my experience in high school was that people that made clean notes and spent a lot of time on them always sucked at actual academics- like doing well on tests and intuitive understanding.