(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best laboratory notebooks

Here's a pro-tip. Have any and all maps you think you could possibly need drawn out on graph paper. If a fight breaks out, you can quickly and easily redraw it on a larger blank battle map. Each square of graph paper is a square of battle map.

You can even pass out map keys to players so they know what your simplified icon is for a door or a chest. Get different color markers for water or fire. Maybe diagonal brown lines represent elevated terrain, stuff like that.

You can have pages of interesting, pre-designed maps, ready to go in an instant (or at least really quickly). If you dont use one today, you might use one next time. And because you already designed the dungeon / battlefield, you can describe it as needed, then quickly draw it up when combat ensues, without having to design on the spot or guess distances.

Easypeazy.

1: if you haven't already, invest in a biggish (at least 2ft by 2ft) washable battlemap, like [this one](
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Grid-Game-Mat-36/dp/B01MQHECUR/ref=asc_df_B01MQHECUR/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312149930626&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11363641352118596268&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9027793&hvtargid=aud-801381245258:pla-457337712203&psc=1)


2: get some graph paper, like this

And this will probably last you years and years. Just be sure to test any and all markers on small corners to be sure they really clean off before committing to the whole map (do this before the game, of course).

I've used this before....it's nice.

So the top and bottom part of the page with the extra sections also need to be included?

Edit: I don't know, a quick search gave me this.

BookFactory Carbonless Student Lab Notebook - 100 Sets of Pages (8.5" X 11") (Duplicator) - Scientific Grid Pages, Durable Translucent Cover, Wire-O Binding (LAB-100-7GW-D (Student)) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AJOBRRM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_mFGxDbGSW81J

this one seems okay

i use the lemome one. it's amazing for not ghosting. i can use fine liners, crayola super tips, brush pens, even sharpies i believe. the only issue i've ever run into is when i use an alcohol pen blender but that'll do some damage on almost any paper i believe
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they have dot, grid, and lined i believe

Blueline makes a series of books that meet your requirements. My favorite is the A796.01, which is an 8x10 inch register book with horizontal lines. I've been using that notebook for 25 years as a professional astrophysicist, no kidding. The earliest ones (from the early 1990s) look the same as the day I wrote in them.

The pages are numbered and therefore tamper evident.

I put a table of contents in myself, on page 1. There are no preprinted date/project headers, but there's a header space to write those things.

Also, check the "Scientific Notebook Company" -- they make a notebook that a lot of people swear by.

I found these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01M1MJP33/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I3QB0H8HDGRX6J&colid=2K885P3IMHHG8

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984516395/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I2MOZE9E9NMFS5&colid=2K885P3IMHHG8

Do you want hard cover or soft cover?

I also don't use crappy floppy lab books like this; spending ~$30 on a hardcovered proper lab book like this is amazing.

Although these were all I used in grad school

And I kill these in about 3-4 months. But I tend to write my thoughts on approaching the problems, which tend to be a bit wordy. Also, analytical chemistry tends to have a lot of graph data and references I stick in my books too (which take up entire pages).