notetaking

I've taken personal notes in a variety of ways over the years. In college I used to always keep a small spiral-bound notebook in my back pocket that would inevitably get folded and torn. When I was travelling and taking daily notes I used a small cheap notebook and took notes in pencil, with the pages getting smudged and unreadable over time. I've tried to use notebooks from Moleskine, Muji, and Leuchtturm 1917, but their "premium" quality put me off from actually filling them. Lately I've been trying to use my phone with voice transcription to remove the friction from notetaking but I feel like a total goober talking to myself.