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Ask DN: What's your favorite notebook and why?

over 7 years ago from Brendan McDonald, Freelance Product Designer

  • Ed AdamsEd Adams, over 7 years ago (edited over 7 years ago )

    I went to my local supermarket and bought 3 A4 note pads. One plain, one lined, and one of graph paper. Altogether they cost me about £4 (~$6). I am very happy with them.

    Perhaps I'll get roasted for this but I don't "get" the notepad fanaticism. It's a piece of paper. Just buy something, whatever's fine.

    15 points
    • Jorge Hernandez Jorge Hernandez , over 7 years ago

      If Im being honest, my favorite method of sketching out ideas for my designers is notecards, the kind you get in a pack. I sketch out the idea and hand it to them to make it happen.

      But I absolutely love a well made notebook, the binding, the paper, the overall feel. Its a bit silly to some. Not to me, I love collecting note books.

      2 points
      • Ed AdamsEd Adams, over 7 years ago

        the binding, the paper, the overall feel

        How interesting. I have that feeling about nice books, but not notepads.

        0 points
        • Jorge Hernandez Jorge Hernandez , over 7 years ago

          I should mention I buy all sorts of random notebooks from places I've traveled to: Cuba, India, Peru, etc... I guess that's a little different that a basic dot grid journal :)

          0 points
    • Ryan Roberts, over 7 years ago

      I agree. Ideally what I'd like is a dot grid notepad on cheap paper, not another of these incredibly expensive dot grid notepads. Maybe the expensive ones are fine if your drawing skills are amazing but I fill them with crap scribbles, notes and sketches.

      2 points
    • Duke CavinskiDuke Cavinski, over 7 years ago

      agreed. for me, it's all about the pen.

      0 points
      • Ed AdamsEd Adams, over 7 years ago

        I understand pens. A cheap pen, like a ballpoint, is no good when compared to an expensive one that will last forever, can jostle around in my backpack and not break, and there'll always be ink ready when I touch it to the paper (because a lot of cheap pens dry up and you need to do that wiggle to get them to work).

        Paper is just paper. As long as it has the type you need - dotted, grid, whatever - it's all just paper. I don't really see where the extra money goes.

        0 points
      • Spencer HoltawaySpencer Holtaway, over 7 years ago

        Pens write differently on different papers, though?

        0 points