An interesting item from the New York Times:

(Some of) the Many Ways Times Journalists Take Notes

If news reports make up the first draft of history, a reporter’s notebook is where that draft begins. Whether it’s an iconic quote scribbled in a notepad or a detailed scene describing a moment in time, the notes that reporters take are an early, but crucial, step in the process of Times journalism.

The means of note-taking have evolved, and reporters each have their own process for recording the details that make up their report, which can vary widely depending on their beat. But the goal remains the same: to document the truth.

Read more: (Some of) the Many Ways Times Journalists Take Notes

This got me thinking about the specific style of notebooks that reporters use. A company called Portage makes quite a few versions, as well as notebooks for other professional uses, such as medicine and law enforcement. I like this one because it has graph paper:

I also noticed this reporter’s notebook by Juvale, which is nice because it has a wire-o binding instead of a regular spiral (at least in the images it looks that way– the description uses the word “spiral.”)

Of course, if you want to spend 10 times as much money and look like an amateur, you can use one of these: