Top 5 Notebooks Too Nice for Your Grocery Lists

Paper so good you'll wait months to write the first page, then fill the whole thing in a week.

1. 1

   Leuchtturm1917 A5 Dotted

   Numbered pages and a built-in table of contents make it the notebook for people who actually want to find things later.

2. 2

   Rhodia Webnotebook

   Clairefontaine paper is so smooth that even a cheap gel pen feels like it's been to finishing school.

3. 3

   Field Notes Original Kraft — Field Notes

   Fits in a back pocket, costs next to nothing and somehow makes a to-do list feel like field research.

4. 4

   MD Notebook — Midori

   It lies completely flat out of the box, and the paper takes fountain pen ink better than notebooks twice the price.

5. 5

   Moleskine Classic Notebook

   The one everyone starts with and outgrows once they meet a fountain pen, but nothing beats the elastic band snap.