Eighty tear-off sheets under a linen fabric hardcover, at 6 by 4 inches, which is the size that actually stays useful. Big enough for a grocery list, a phone number, or the three things you swore you would remember, and small enough to sit beside a keyboard or ride in a handbag without folding in half. The hardcover backing is the quiet upgrade over a gummed pad: it does not curl at the corner, and you can write on it standing up in the kitchen. Cute notepads usually make you choose between charming and grown up, and this one from Papier declines to choose. The paper is FSC certified, which counts for more than it sounds like when a desk notepad gets replaced two or three times a year. Keep one by the junk drawer, one in the kitchen, and one wrapped for the teacher who writes everything on the back of an envelope.
