The Slimpad Notepad and Slim Construction Pen combination from Troika is the perfect addition to a toolbox. It's also good for handbags and back pockets, but its true home is the garage or garden shed.

But why? Well to start with, it's small: the notebook measures just 105mm x 148mm (A6). Also, it's robust. The hard blue cover is tactile, with rounded corners, and has a ruler marked in centimetres and millimetres debossed near the spine. A sturdy elasticated grey loop keeps the notebook closed, and there's a useful fabric page marker, also in grey. The inside back cover features an expandable pocket. It contains 80 pages of FSC-certified white paper, perforated for easy removal, with a dotgrid layout so it doesn't matter if you want to write something, sketch something or draw a diagram.

If that wasn't enough, it comes equipped with a matching blue slim construction Tool Pen! It holds a large G2 refill for lots of project notes. The body of the pen has 4 differet metric ratios and the end of the pen includes a touchscreen stylus.