One reviewer wrote: “This notebook has all of my favorite features: thick, luxurious dot-grid paper; a built-in pen loop and pen; a file pocket inside the back cover; and numbered pages.

The set’s specially-designed paper notebook, called a “paper tablet,” is also mandatory since it includes a grid that the pen uses to record your notes in digital form.

The premise of Doane rotates around the paper that make up each pad. The founder, Chad Doane, noticed during a meeting that half the room was using legal pads and the other were using grid paper, so ...