[woolion]

I'm a big fan of Feng Zhu, and he often recalls asking his class "how many of you have a Moleskine notebook? Almost all raise hands. How many of you have filled them? And almost nobody raise their hands. So, just take a stack of printer paper, staple it, and that will be your notebook". With great paper comes great expectations, and that prevents you from using it. I was gifted a Moleskine notebook, tried to make a drawing on one page, it was pretty bad, and I never opened it again. I got the cheapest work notebook, and I actually filled it with great city drawings during my travels, interspersed with some ideas about probabilistic descriptive complexity and other stuff I was working on.