If you like to keep a notepad handy to jot down ideas and don't care for Moleskines or Hipster PDAs you might carry the classic spiral pocket notebook. They're dirt cheap and get the job done but ...

The 100 best notebooks as tested by the writers and editors of the Strategist. They tested spiral, marble, leatherbound, lined, blank, and gridded notebooks including ones from Smythson, Moleskin ...

It's the software equivalent of ripping the wood panelling, fireplace, leather couches and card tables from an olde worlde pub and replacing them with concrete, glass and acres of wipe-down tiling.