Can’t afford to buy a Midori Traveler’s notebook? Consider trying the Pelle Leather Journal. It also features a handmade leather cover and elastics to attach notebooks to the cover. The Pelle journal measures 4.3 inches X 6.8 inches and includes one notebook and a fabric carrying bag. $39.99 (via JetPens.com)

A rainbow of notebooks

If you are particular about color or want to create a rainbow with your writings, these leather journals from PaperThinks may be just the thing. Made with 100% recycled leather covers and 50% recycled cream lined paper stock, these are as environmental as they are lovely. Available in about 18 different colors 5 × 6.75″,…

The pocket notebook trend isn’t recent. Leave it to The Art of Manliness to find references to real men keeping pocket notebooks like the ones shown in the photo above since the early 20th century. Real men take notes, proudly, and the suggestions for uses for these notebooks are as valid today as they were…

The Field Book from Russel + Hazel is an understated all-business notebook. It has grid pages for notes and plans with blank backs for sketching. There’s even an interior vellum envelope for storing ephemera. It contains 100 pages, twin-loop wire binding and measure 5”x7.25”. $8 (via Russell and Hazel)

The Library Pocket Journal is filled with a wide variety of papers (lined, graphed, blank, colored) some printed with images of ticket stubs, postcards and other travel ephemera interspersed throughout the whole book along with half dozen envelopes bound into the pages to hold any ephemera. 5.5” x 8” and contains 56 pages. $22 (via…