Notes.app V2?

Since the debut of Mountain Lion, some people have been harping on Notes.app and its continuation of the skeuomorphic leather + legal pad paper look. While I am loving many of the design changes in Mountain Lion, I too am not the biggest fan of the use of the brown leather.

However, I think a lot of people would have less complaints if the leather was black and the legal pad was white. So I tried a little photoshop mockup of a few changes. Hopefully this look is more of a balance between the clean, no-nonsense design some are looking for and the skeuomorphism Apple uses to help acclimate new users to the digital experience.

(PS. I know this isn't an earth-shatteringly new/original re-design, its just something I wanted to see for myself and figured I'd share.)