Just this morning I literally wandered around Staples for an hour pondering this exact question. Staples might not be the prime place to look, but it was the be

Just this morning I literally wandered around Staples for an hour pondering this exact question. Staples might not be the prime place to look, but it was the best I had. Anyway, my requirements were thus: it had to be reorganizable (e.g. your standard three clip binder), it had to be relatively small (I want to carry it around in a small messenger bag or even better my versipack) and it had to be amazingly simple (lined paper only, no calendar, no pockets, no special latches). Long story short: every notebook I looked at was absolutely idiotic in some fashion or another. The reogranizable requirement limited me to like half a dozen. The simple limited me down to basically two: a standard 1/2" binder or one of these new fangled "rolla" notebooks, which are absolutely horribly designed. I ended up going with a simple 1/2" binder, a bunch of paper, and the hope that eventually someone will solve this problem acceptably so I can have a reorganizable notebook. The main benefit of the 1/2" binder is it small: keep only what you need, but keep it with you as often as possible. Insight comes at odd times, and if you keep your goals in the binder they will get revisited often, solidifying them in your mind. Hope that helps.