Awesome Notebooks

This series of notebooks from Cognitive Surplus has detailed cover images inspired by science, nature, and math. Inside each journal, you’ll find 208 pages of 5.8″ x 8.3″ black paper with a 50/50 mix of lines and grid dots. They’re perfect for taking notes and making doodles with their high-opacity gel pens.

Keep your Field Notes, Moleskine, or other 3.5″ x 5.5″ notebooks out of the elements with this journal cover from Tintris. It has pockets for pens, credit cards, business cards, a passport, and other small items. Made from water-resistant waxed canvas and stays shut with a premium YKK zipper.

Keep your life and work organized with Ink + Volt’s spiral-bound Dashboard deskpad. Each of its 52 weekly pages provides to-do lists for each area of focus, along with spots to list your top priorities and a weekly theme. There’s also a tracker to check off things you want to do every day. They also make a version of the Dashboard with tear-off pages.

Lochby’s smallest journal cover is a great addition to your daily loadout. Made from a durable waxed canvas, the compact case has space for up to four 3.5″ x 5.5″ notebooks, along with storage slots for business cards, receipts, a ruler, and an exterior pen loop. It stays closed with a webbed belt and aluminum hook and comes in brown, black, or navy blue.

This durable metal notebook will never let you down. It features rust-proof titanium covers and comes loaded with a waterproof and tear-resistant paper pad. It also packs a 12-in-1 multitool card and an everlasting pen that both attach magnetically. It includes 100 pages of its special stone paper, and refills will be available.

This useful accessory attaches to the back of your phone, adding a portable stand and a notebook that’s small enough to fit in your pocket. The slimline Snap Flow attaches magnetically and even includes a skinny pen inside.

Who says calendars need to be boring? The Part-Time Adult Daily Planner helps keep you organized and entertained at the same time. There’s a page for every day of the year, along with fun facts about holidays and celebrity birthdays, plus a grid for your ideas and doodles. It’s not year-specific, so you can start using it at any time.

Digital checklists are fine, but we find that writing things on paper helps us remember them better. This Daily Checklist Notebook from MochiThings is the perfect place to jot down your to-do lists. Each of its 140 pages has four sections for tracking lists, and spiral binding ensures the notebook lays flat. Choose from blue, yellow, green, or brown covers.

This notebook-sized whiteboard from Japan’s 9FEET Design is small enough to carry in your backpack. It has a built-in stand for presentations and a pen holder loop, and its cover doubles as an eraser for dry-erase markers. Measures 10.5″ x 7″ x 0.3″. It’s one of the unique and innovative items in the Yanko Design Shop.

CGP Grey’s Cortex brand created the Sidekick, a wide-format notepad that works hand-in-hand with your computer workspace. It sits between you and your keyboard and has a large, gridded area for sketching and a narrow space for to-do lists on the right. It’s made with 60 pages of premium Munken Lynx paper with a cover made from recycled coffee cups.

Rite in the Rain makes notebook paper that won’t fall apart if it gets wet. Their weatherproof Cordura cover provides added protection for their 7-ring field binders and pockets for pens and other small accessories. It comes in multicam, black, and desert tan fabrics.

Blackthorn Leather’s handsome wallet provides the ideal home for a Field Notes journal. It fits standard 3.5″ x 5.5″ notebooks and has a built-in pen loop and storage for cards, cash, or other flat items. Each Blackthorn leather accessory is handmade in Southern California.

The guys at Airportag sell some of the best gifts for travelers. Among their wares is an extensive collection of travel journals. The hardcover journals feature imagery inspired by baggage tags, boarding passes, airport codes, diagrams, passport stamps, and some humorous designs. Available in 4″ x 6″ and 6″ x 8.5″ sizes.

These durable Field Notes notebooks are printed on Yupo synthetic paper, a waterproof and tearproof writing surface. Its smooth surface doesn’t absorb ink like regular paper, so it works best with fine-tip Sharpies, pencils, and some ballpoint pens. Each 48-page journal has a lightly dotted graph pattern, and they come three to a pack.

Field Notes teamed up with renowned Minneapolis printer Studio on Fire to create these hot-foil stamped memo books.  They feature fencing-inspired artwork by Aaron Draplin stamped in silver foil on Indigo blue cover stock. The set of three notebooks comes packed in a silver paper tuck box with blue foil. Field Notes subscribers get a bonus gold and red edition.

Triangle Notebook’s writing pad defers to the objects commonly found on desks. Its L-shape lets it conveniently tuck into the corner of books, keyboards, and other rectangular or square-shaped items. It has 160 sheets of dot-gridded paper.