blotter vs notebook

blotter

noun
  • A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture. 

  • A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions. 

  • A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station. 

  • A portion of blotter acid. 

notebook

noun
  • A book in which notes or memoranda are written. 

  • A kind of user interface in literate programming, allowing calculations to be interspersed with human-readable comments, diagrams, etc. 

How often have the words blotter and notebook occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )