I always like looking at other people's notes from class. There's such a wide variety of ways to take down the same information, and some people do so beautifully. Others, like me, are pretty straightforward with how they copy things down.
Let's see some of your all's notebooks, regardless of what they are for. Scratchpad, notes from class, grocery lists, whatever - I want to see them!
That's majestic! I carry a very small notebook for the same purpose while hiking...but its been through some rain storms and it isn't quite picture-worthy.
Nope! My filled pages get recycled in the end-of-year cleanup. Its somewhat satisfying to destroy notebooks from certain classes that caused a lot of stress around finals. (Or am I just aggressive?)
I am horrible with writing, my handwriting is basically just scribbles. This is the thing I wrote most recently.
Virginia Woolf, “Hours in a Library” Discovered during earlier conversation on an excellent short article about information overload, which mentioned the commonplace book. I like to carry a small notebook around, and most often use it to work on a Project Euler problem. (My preferred implement is a simple Pilot G2, though I will sometimes refill one with l'encre du roi.)Let us take down one of those old notebooks which we have all, at one time or another, had a passion for beginning. Most of the pages are blank, it is true; but at the beginning we shall find a certain number very beautifully covered with a strikingly legible hand-writing. Here we have written down the names of great writers in their order of merit; here we have copied out fine passages from the classics; here are lists of books to be read; and here, most interesting of all, lists of books that have actually been read, as the reader testifies with some youthful vanity by a dash of red ink.
I keep one! It's for just about everything. Sporadic journaling, to-do lists, the occasional poem or doodle, etc. I keep one for class too, but I picked this one to share. 
Always quadrille. Always pencil. Usually large and spiral-bound. I almost exclusively take notes for classes. I tried keeping a programmer's notebook for a while, but it was just too laborious. One of these days I'll pick up Emacs Org Mode that I keep hearing recommended. Yes, my fast-note-taking writing is terrible. And by the way, that is a fantastic pencil. I am very fond of that pencil.
These are not class notes. Some have work notes in them though. I have a terrible habit of writing in work notebooks with work notes starting from the front (to-do lists, notes from meetings, etc) and then all of a sudden I get crazy ideas for poetry or research or lists or just ANYTHING and I flip to the back and start filling it in there - so my work notebooks often turn into poetry notebooks - you will note this from the mess jumbled here: Two of these are marked "work" notebooks and aren't...you will also note my love of stickers and embellishments...Helps me tell them apart. This above is probably about a year and a half's worth of notebooks, all the same because I have gotten them all free from work. Currently I am writing in...oh, four. Usually I don't have so many going at once, usually one two - one I futilely try to keep to work and one I mostly keep to poetry. Work notes slip over though. Right now i have lost a notebook that was full and I don't know where it went, but it went before I could copy all the poems over into text. I hope i find it. I hope no one else has. It is ESPECIALLY funny to me to mark my notebooks with stickers calling them "TRASH - BASURA - SMIECI" That's - English - Spanish, I believe - and then of all things - Polish. Not your standard multi-lingual sticker at least as far as I understand it! I would expect French before Polish every day. On the inside? I don't usually draw, but when I do: 
Shall we use the word hoard? Then we shall use the word hoard. Different books have different functions but I love a little one for notes and a bigger one for thoughts. Little, middle, second from the left, fell into a river with me one time and became swollen and wrinkled like old parchment. It's stained with mould, inside, and appears to have become sentient enough to sketch the scene of its own destruction. Top left travels with me to special places. It has visited mountains in Scotland, river valleys in Spain, deserts in Morocco. Thick, rough paper. It forces me to write slowly. Little, middle, second from the right, flips up like a reporter's notebook from the 1940's. Should be used with a hat, a trenchcoat and a cigarette. The spiralbound ones are old. Rereading their contents reveals the writing of a stranger. The two at the bottom are my current friends and collaborators. Pencil, always pencil.
I keep one.
Its filled with all sorts of stuff.
I doodle when bored.
I plot out processes.
I sketch out schemes.
I record decisions and to-do lists. I use it to dump out my thoughts and get them straight. I never read back over anything I have written in it. 
I have a thing for notebooks, I never throw them away, like ever. I still have some workbooks from preschool and kindergarten. Call me weird, but lately I've been trying to improve my penmanship, and relearning cursive.. Its a slow process, but I'm kind of enjoying it. :p
How are you going about that process? My handwriting can be difficult for others to decipher, and I'd love to improve. Are you learning through repetition, or using some sort of resource?
Repetition mostly. Pages and pages of the alphabet, numbers. Loops and circles, too. It helps to draw out the letter shapes using your whole arm in the air, if that makes sense. It helps build muscle memory. I've been going through and highlighting the sets I like the most and try to recreate them. Biggest piece of advise I've found online -- and something I struggle with -- is to slow down. When I'm on a roll I can't even decipher my own chicken scratch. Lol
I currently use a little 'vmware' branded notebook that I got from a careers fair (it's handy because it has an elastic band that you can attach a pen to) for random notes, thoughts and things I want to remember and a large red notebook that my mother got for free from a stationery company that she used to work at (she has a whole cupboard full of surplus office supplies so none of us will ever have to buy paper) which I use for studying notes. It turns out that I'm really good at writing notes for entire courses in the few days leading up to the exam. I'm a bit of a procrastinator. I wrote down the names of the Hebrew characters but I forgot to write down what they actually sound like so this page is a bit useless.
