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What's the advantage, if I may ask? From my perspective: I've got a $.59 3x5 composition pad that I bought that works wonders for me. What do I get for a highe

What's the advantage, if I may ask? From my perspective: I've got a $.59 3x5 composition pad that I bought that works wonders for me. What do I get for a higher investment?

runjake 15y ago
Those $.59 3x5 memo pads fall apart after a couple weeks in my back pocket. Moleskines are/were more durable. They seem to be getting worse and worse quality now, so I use a binder clip + a dozen blank white index cards. I prefer them to a notepad/moleskine now. They're thick enough that i can jot stuff down using my hand as a backing. Once I don't need a card anymore, I can snap a photo of it with Evernote and shred or toss it in the recycle box. I replace it with a shiny new cheap white index card. Thinning the herd, so to speak.
- owenmarshall 15y ago
  The thickness of the cards does sound like an appealing draw -- so far, my biggest gripe about the cheap memo pad is that the text can bleed through, plus it can sometimes be a pain in the ass to get in the margins. Thanks for the tip.
  - runjake 15y ago
    That was another complaint I had about the memopads, bleed through. Index cards end up being cheaper (free in my case, as I raid the office supply room).
evilduck 15y ago
I carry these: http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/classic/cahier/cardboard_kraft_cover/set_of_3_squared_cahier_journals__kraft__pocket.php http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/classic/cahier/cardboard_... The main reasons are that they're thin and fit in my back pocket easy so it goes everywhere, and since I'm always sitting on it, the paged being sewn in prevent it from falling apart. Composition pads are generally bulkier and glued together or spiral bound which is also pocket-unfriendly. I've got other 3x5 notebooks that are bulkier than the Cahier Journals and I just never take them with me. I'd probably avoid sitting on a binder clip too. They also have rounded corners which help prevent the pages from catching on my pocket and getting folded/torn/ugly, and it has a nice inner pocket for receipts or other sources of notes. Superfluous, I know, but I like the cream colored paper better than white paper, and the plain cardboard cover develops a nice patina that other stuff generally doesn't. They're about 3 bucks and only 64 pages each, which is quite steep if you write a lot, but I only go through one maybe every 2 or 3 months, which makes the cost difference negligible to me.

What's the advantage, if I may ask? From my perspective: I've got a $.59 3x5 composition pad that I bought that works wonders for me. What do I get for a higher investment?

runjake 15y ago

Those $.59 3x5 memo pads fall apart after a couple weeks in my back pocket. Moleskines are/were more durable. They seem to be getting worse and worse quality now, so I use a binder clip + a dozen blank white index cards. I prefer them to a notepad/moleskine now. They're thick enough that i can jot stuff down using my hand as a backing. Once I don't need a card anymore, I can snap a photo of it with Evernote and shred or toss it in the recycle box. I replace it with a shiny new cheap white index card. Thinning the herd, so to speak.

owenmarshall 15y ago
The thickness of the cards does sound like an appealing draw -- so far, my biggest gripe about the cheap memo pad is that the text can bleed through, plus it can sometimes be a pain in the ass to get in the margins. Thanks for the tip.
- runjake 15y ago
  That was another complaint I had about the memopads, bleed through. Index cards end up being cheaper (free in my case, as I raid the office supply room).

evilduck 15y ago

I carry these: http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/classic/cahier/cardboard_kraft_cover/set_of_3_squared_cahier_journals__kraft__pocket.php http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/classic/cahier/cardboard_... The main reasons are that they're thin and fit in my back pocket easy so it goes everywhere, and since I'm always sitting on it, the paged being sewn in prevent it from falling apart. Composition pads are generally bulkier and glued together or spiral bound which is also pocket-unfriendly. I've got other 3x5 notebooks that are bulkier than the Cahier Journals and I just never take them with me. I'd probably avoid sitting on a binder clip too. They also have rounded corners which help prevent the pages from catching on my pocket and getting folded/torn/ugly, and it has a nice inner pocket for receipts or other sources of notes. Superfluous, I know, but I like the cream colored paper better than white paper, and the plain cardboard cover develops a nice patina that other stuff generally doesn't. They're about 3 bucks and only 64 pages each, which is quite steep if you write a lot, but I only go through one maybe every 2 or 3 months, which makes the cost difference negligible to me.