A notebook is a book or stack of paper pages that are often ruled and used for purposes such as note-taking, journaling, or other writing, drawing, or scrapbooking and more.
Commonplace books are personal notebooks used to compile any information the owner finds interesting or useful. They can variously contain notes, proverbs, adages, aphorisms, maxims, recipes, quotes,
Notebook
…using a pen with a built in infrared camera the written text can be transferred to a laptop, mobile phone or back office for storage and processing. Commonplace book Journal…
A commonplace book from the mid-seventeenth century
Zibaldone di pensieri, written by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi