EDC notebook

I’ve tried a bunch. These Moleskine dupes. (Pen always somehow went missing.) This thing (came close, but without a way to secure it closed, the pages got trashed; the pen is cute though). But I think I’ve found The One™:

• Leather Field Notes Cover from Etsy seller Tarberry; $21.50 currently (on sale), I got it in black, not personalized. I like that it snaps closed. The ability to stash some emergency cash and a card or three if you were so inclined, are bonuses.
• Clairefontaine Staplebound 3.5X5.5 notebooks; $13. I’ve generally had good experience with Clairefontaine paper, if I use it with a fountain pen, etc. I’ve been using these since my days buying pens and an endless supply of journals from Writer’s Bloc [rip].
• Currently, a Zebra F-301 I had handy. 
• I’m likely to swap that for something like a Sakura Pigma Micro, “will not smear or feather when dry,” “waterproof and chemical proof,” etc. (I’ve had, e.g., an improperly closed Hydro Flask soak everything in my EDC bag. So I’d like a pen that won’t wash off the page...)
• What I think I’d really, really like is a slim (if there is such a thing?) demonstrator-style fountain pen (maybe the Muft?), loaded up with a non-problematic dupe of Noodler’s Luxury Blue Eternal or similar Bulletproof or Eternal ink (maybe Platinum Carbon Black?)... But maybe not for quick note-taking in a bouncing car or ...

This thing is the right size, feels luxe in the hand, and checks all the boxes I had on my list. Here’s hoping I’m as enamored with it a year from now.

The assembled notebook