You can create your list of content ideas for your book on yellow legal pads of paper, or you can use the lists and tables features of your word processing program. (blog.publishedandprofitable.com)
Instead, he attends each game himself, bringing along his trusted yellow legal pad, taking profuse notes and evaluating ballplayers quietly from the stands. (firstthings.com)
Then I panicked, wondering what he was writing about me on his neat yellow legal pad. (washingtonpost.com)