TOPS Notebooks

Choose a FocusNotes™ notebook for class and journaling to record thoughts and lessons on premium ruled sheets. In addition to FocusNotes, TOPS® offers different subject and composition books and journals and specialty notebooks. These come in different sizes with hard and soft covers. Check out the large inventory of paper products at Staples® to find a wide selection of TOPS notebooks.

Choose from Different TOPS Notebooks
TOPS FocusNotes composition and subject notebooks help users take comprehensive notes by using the Cornell Note-taking System. These have three sections on each page. The main section is for taking notes in classes and at meetings. Each page has a column for users to jot down questions and ideas. The summary section is for noting the highlights of these sessions. It helps users’ recollections when studying their notes.

Besides single-subject notebooks, TOPS also offers multi-subject ones for taking notes in different classes. Multi-subject books are more convenient than multiple single-subject units. Students are also less likely to forget these at home. Other types of writing books offered by TOPS include planners, crossover notebooks with repositionable pages, and executive notebooks with premium build. Some, like TOPS phone message books, have specific uses. Steno books are for reporters and secretaries while lab notebooks are for scientists.

Consider Page Layout and Ruling When Shopping for TOPS Notebooks
Most of the brand’s offerings have lined or ruled pages. Computational books for scientists and engineers favor graph ruling suitable for technical drawings. Other types of page layouts feature a dotted grid, dotted lines, and are plain or blank. When selecting ruled pages, consider the line spacing options. The most common ones are college, narrow, wide/legal, and quad ruled paper. Narrow ruled sheets have 1/4- inch spacing between lines and are ideal for people with small handwriting.

College or medium ruled pages have lines that are 9/32 inches apart. Wide ruled paper has 11/32-inch line spacing and is suitable for those with large handwriting and grade school students. Quad ruled pages have evenly spaced horizontal and vertical lines. These form grids of squares meant for drawing graphs. TOPS also uses specialty line rulings in select models. An example is the Cornell ruling used in its FocusNotes notebook series.

What Kind of Binding Do TOPS Notebooks Have?
These writing materials use spiral, ring, stitched, and glue binding. A TOPS spiral-bound notebook has a coil of wire holding its pages together. Ring-bound units have multiple single or twin wires securing their spines. Stitch binding holds pages together with thread while glue binding uses adhesive.

Should You Consider Paper Weight When Selecting Notebooks?
Yes. Quoted in pounds or GSM (grams per square meter), paper weight is a measure of sheet thickness and durability. TOPS notebooks use sheets with paper weights ranging from 15 to 60 pounds. Heavier paper is thicker and better suited for writing on both sides.

Do TOPS Notebooks Have Thick, Durable Covers?
Yes. This brand mostly uses pressboard for its notebook covers. Pressboard is a stiff material made of multiple layers of compressed paper. You can also find a TOPS spiral notebook with a kraft cover. Some journals and executive notebooks have soft, premium leatherette covers that are strong and water-resistant. Strike at the heart of business office organization and accessibility by using Cardinal® binders to store important information. Create a frustration-free system of maintaining records, receipts, invoices, and documents by organizing and securing them in solid and durable multi-ring binders. Identify the right binder for the right job by reviewing various size round and slanted rings, assorted binder shapes and sizes, and non-view or ClearVue™ exteriors. Store company checks, bulky reports, training materials, and program outlines, and be confident they'll stay undamaged and in order despite the daily wear and tear that comes with a busy operation. Add hole punchers with coinciding configurations, and filing and storage of documents becomes simple and efficient. Get your house and your business in order with Cardinal easy to use, easy open binders from Staples®.