I've been using Moleskine notebooks for years; if you do get one, let us know how it goes. I expect it not to work very well, but every so often my expectations are confounded in a delightful way, the most recent being the Livescribe pen (see James Fallows's description here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/my-new... ). Based on his recommendation, I bought one and, shockingly, it works as advertised and is vastly more convenient than conventional dictaphones or pen/paper.