Found these lower-school exercise books from the Czech Republic in a little shop stateside. Lots of pages of blue-lined graph paper inside. 

I’ve always had a hard time with the original Moleskines and their knockoffs. They’re alluring, but in practice nothing I write or sketch feels important enough for a hardbound notebook. That’s why I always preferred softcover notebooks that feel like they’re made for everyday work. The wonderful Field Notes are like this, as are the Clairefontaine notebooks of my own school days. I know that people use Penultimate the same way— durably capturing everything from critical ideas to idle scribbles— which is exactly the idea.

P.S. All “credit” for the title of this post goes to my colleague Angela. :-)