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My background is in Electrical Engineering, and we were always taught to keep a work journal with specific features so it would be a legal document. I just figured they were trying to sell us the more expensive notebooks. That is, until some colleagues were called to court to testify in a patent challenge about the contents of their journals (regarding work from 10 years prior). I take my journal a lot more seriously now.

If the notebook is bound (can't add or remove pages), with pre-numbered pages (proves no pages added or removed), and entries are dated, it's pretty much automatically admissible in court. Loose or missing pages, hand written page numbers, missing dates -- won't necessarily make it inadmissible, but it leaves room for the work to be challenged by the opposing team.




They taught me to have it signed, by myself and someone else every day.


"If the notebook is bound (can't add or remove pages), with pre-numbered pages (proves no pages added or removed)..."

Does anyone know of a good place to get an inexpensive (and leatherless) one of these? I would say any notebook would work, but I haven't ran on to many with numbered pages.


Sadly I've never run into a notebook with pre-numbered pages. I did buy the Think/Create/Record for less than 4 bucks. Numbering them isn't as time consuming as you'd think them to be. Someone mentioned composition books, they're leatherless and inexpensive.


The National Brand Computation Notebook is popular. $12 from Amazon.

I have used them for years.


Those are my favorite. I used those a ton in grad school and I highly recommend them. The only downside is that they are pretty large.

For my walk-around notebook that I carry to meetings for notes, etc, I use a quad ruled Moleskine. The pages aren't numbered, but they are permanently bound.


Does anyone know a UK supplier for these or similar?

I've been after a decent notebook for about 10 years but all you can get here is crap.


Thanks for the tip - nice notebook - I wish I could get a nice hard cover book WITH numbered pages.


Available off of amazon: http://www.leuchtturm1917.com/

I switched from moleskines, and have been quite happy.


nice tip


Check out accountants' Journals, they have lined paper rather than quadrille, but they work well.


I got one of those from a friend doing research at University , her department always has a good stock of them.




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