Too pretty to write in? The pages are the part you replace.

Here's a thing a lot of us do with a nice notebook. We save it. It's too pretty to waste on a grocery list, so we wait for something worthy, and the something worthy never comes. One woman told us about her "(very large) Rubbermaid container full of unused notebooks and blank books." Another wrote: "I have 100 journals and never seem to get it back to the way it used to be." The Lacy Momento is built so no page is too precious to use, because the pages are the part you replace.

The Lacy cover has a raised lace pattern you can feel with your fingertips, and an elastic closure with a small square tab to hold it shut. It doesn't look like a notebook from the office supply aisle. This is the one you leave out on the desk, the one you reach for first, and the one that still looks like itself a year from now.

It arrives in a linen travel bag with Still Archive on the front. Inside: the cover, two 76-page inserts (one lined, one blank), a zipper organizer insert for the receipts, tickets and notes you want to keep with it, and the charm you choose. Not in the box: a pen, extra refills, and the grid and planner inserts, which are sold separately. If you like grid pages, the Grid Insert is $12 for the Pocket and $15 for the Classic.

Part of the fear of ruining a pretty notebook is the blank page staring back. These pages have no dates. Write a page the night you open it, then nothing until a birthday in March, and the next page is just the next page. There's no row of blank dates to feel bad about and nothing to catch up on. One line counts. So does a full page after a big day.

Most notebooks end on the last page, and then you're shopping for another one, or worse, saving it so you never reach the end. Here you slide the filled insert out, keep it, and slide in a refill. Refills start at $12, about 76 pages each. That's the difference: you're paying for the cover you keep, and every page after this one goes inside it, so there's no reason to save it for later. The lifetime warranty covers the binding, the cover and the hardware.

The Pocket cover is 4.25 x 6.89 in (108 x 175 mm), with pages of 90 x 163 mm. It goes in your purse, so it's with you when you want it. The Classic is 4.72 x 7.87 in (120 x 200 mm), with pages of 105 x 190 mm and more room to write at the kitchen table. Will your own inserts fit? Traveler's Notebook Passport inserts fit both sizes. A6 and Hobonichi Weeks fit the Classic only. A5 and B6 are too big for either.

The raised lace pattern is the Lacy cover, and you can feel it under your fingers. It's $119 for the Pocket (was $238) and $138 for the Classic (was $276). The other colors start at $69. Every Momento is 50% off right now and comes with a free charm, free US shipping and easy 100-day returns.