I love those lined pads. I'm a teacher and I use them to prep classes to take notes when I read for to-do lists...And staples has the thin lined ones I like. So all's good.
I was in the unpleasant position of being unable to directly type notes into a computer. These pads gave me paper with an unobtrusive background and a reminder to put the date on it. My notes were scanned directly to the computer as an attachment when this could be done. Not as good as typed in but the information is complete and available.