loose-leaf notebook

“He carried around a big, blue loose-leaf notebook everywhere he went for a while, until laptops were a thing. He would write down ideas for songs. Fragments. And he’d go to the library. Like when he wrote the song ‘I Want a New Duck,’ he told me he spent an afternoon in the library just researching ducks.”

He started keeping meticulous notes on loose-leaf notebook paper and realized, not long ago, that he was about to hit a milestone.

A collection of correspondence between them “fills a three-inch-thick loose-leaf notebook,” Jenkins said.*

He knew it in the meeting room when he saw Lynn scribbling ideas and reminders into a loose-leaf notebook.

“Feels good to be back up here,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner, a holdover from the Obama administration, said as he plopped a thick loose-leaf notebook on a lectern.