Dropped $28 on a dot grid notebook after using cheap spirals, and the bleed-through finally got to me

Lily Anderson · 2026-10-22T00:45:05.094896+00:00

I had been using 99 cent spiral notebooks for my weekly spreads, but every time I tried to use a felt tip pen it bled right through to the next page and ruined two months of habit trackers. So last week I went to the local art store in Portland and bought a real dot grid journal with thicker paper, and the difference in how clean the pages look is something I should have done a long time ago. Does anyone here have a paper weight they swear by, or am I just going to have to test pens on the back page forever?

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