'notepad' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a pad of paper used for taking notes, usually with a cardboard back and spiral binding. For example, "I always carry a notepad with me so I can take notes when I'm out and about."
I feel utterly ridiculous, standing at her bedside with my notepad, as though I might have something useful to write.
"I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," he says now, then draws a diagram in my notepad to show where he was sitting that night and exactly what happened after Cantona was sent off.
On his notepad he has written, in deep, page-scoring ballpoint, two bullet points: "advertising authority" and "hostile environment".
The stories and letters – their content, length and order – are like revelations from a therapist's notepad: you discover what trips the residents into anger and which of the hundreds of minor conflicts that buzz around a town on any given week they hold to be most important.
I've never had such trouble finding a lined reporter's notepad with my pen.
The screen is black, my pupils begin their slow dilation; the notepad on my lap has disappeared.
He drives his wife crazy by waking in the night to jot down ideas on a bedside notepad.
In America or Europe, in the same situation, one would feel no compunction to apologise for the situation".Oguchi-sensei writes a word on my notepad.
EVER since the 1890s, when Frederick Winslow Taylor first wandered around the Midvale steelworks in Philadelphia with a stopwatch and a notepad, managers have searched for tools to improve the performance of their organisations.
Given the low costs of entry into freelance journalism (buy a notepad and a good camera), it is not surprising that the competition for the scoop or the shot has been so intense since Lindbergh's day.The rewards (and costs) of fame have enormously increased as the market has become global.
He looked up and glared across the room at the squat figure writing in a notepad.
