Rocketbook Core Reusable Spiral Notebook, Letter Size 8.5x11, Black - Lined Pages, App-Connected, Erasable, Durable Cover, Ideal for School, Work, and Creative Projects

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Customers find the notebook offers good value for money and is a fantastic purchase for students. They find it easy to write notes in, making their handwriting neater. The pen writes smoothly and dries quickly. It's simple to clean off the pages and upload them to Dropbox. Customers are satisfied with paper saving and organization. However, some customers have differing opinions on functionality and scan quality.

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  Shawn R.

  

  Jan 1, 2021

  This is the product that I've been waiting for since I heard about the very first Livescribe release 13 years ago. And, I think it's proof that the best solutions are often the simplest and most elegant. I'm an IT professional, a notetaker, and a very fast typist. If I'm in a formal meeting, I have no problems sitting in front of a laptop computer and documenting what is going on almost word-for-word. However, the vast majority of the time, I'm not in that kind of formal meeting setting and don't need that level of detail. Instead, I'm running around from place-to-place or meeting-to-meeting carrying around notebook and pen. Jotting down this and that. Diagrams. To Do Lists items. Contact information. Passwords. Anything and everything. I've tried tablets. I don't like them. I have a personal cellphone, a work cellphone, and a work laptop that I carry around when working with customers. For me, a tablet doesn't bring anything to the table that I can't do better with a smartphone or laptop and becomes just another piece of technology I have to carry around and keep charged. If I'm dealing with a purely technical solution, then I prefer to type on a full-sized keyboard in a laptop. But, ultimately, a notebook and pen are really all I need the vast majority of the time to get the job done. The problem then becomes the ever-increasing stack of used notebooks containing information that I likely only needed for a short period of time ... but also likely containing information I don't just want to toss in the trash. Lots of wasted paper ... and lots of wasted time shredding the most sensitive information. That is why, when I read about the most recent iteration of the Rocketbook, I was ecstatic. This is finally what I'd been waiting for. My 2 biggest complaints about the original Livescribe design was that, first, the special notebooks were far more expensive than ordinary notebooks ... while still being one-time-use notebooks. Second, and more significant, was the reliance on a very expensive hi-tech pen. Pens and keys are two of the things that people misplace the most often. Keys people typically find afterwards because they're necessary. Pens? Not so much. I've had dozens of pens "disappear" only to eventually find them in the same exact toolbox. A recurring and natural progression from desktop to toolbox. I've tried getting nice, refillable pens in the $30 range ... thinking "It costs more. I'll be more careful about where I place it" and finding that didn't make it any better. So, the fact the original Livescribes were dependent upon keeping track of a pen that cost several hundred dollars was a huge concern. With Rocketbook, that's not a concern at all! Pilot Frixion pens are standard, non-technical erasable pens. I got a multi-color 8-pack for just $13, and a 5-pack of the fancier retractible ones for $1 each. The pens are easy to find, cheap, and therefore easily replaced. So, while the Rocketbook does require that specific type of pen to be used, a multipack of pens is all you need to ensure that you have them wherever you might need one without having to worry about it if you misplace one. Very convenient. The other huge improvement is the polyester-based paper and the fact it's highly reusable. I understand that the previous iteration of the Rocketbook required that the notebook be microwaved to erase the sheets and that this process also limited how many times the notebook could be reused and how it could be reused. This new iteration eliminated that and makes it as simple as having a small spray bottle of water and a kleenex (or the microfiber towel the kit includes). Instead of an "all or nothing" erasing approach, you now have the flexibility of choosing exactly which pages and/or which portions of pages you want to erase all by where you spray the water and wipe away the ink. Earlier today, while setting up a new computer for a customer, I had all of the various passwords for the accounts and software they used scattered across over 10 pages of notes. When I was finished, I cleared out just one page, transferred all of those various passwords to that one page, and then erased the rest of the pages. Once consolidated, I could then use the Rocketbook app to capture the information and e-mail it to myself. Had I written it more clearly, I also would have had the option to get the image data transcribed to text. This is where the technical intregration comes into play and is also why a multi-hundred dollar pen is no longer needed. I already have 2 multi-hundred dollar smartphones handy. Especially when the basic NOTE app on an iPhone can take a photo of an ordinary sheet of paper and convert it into a PDF file; or combine multiple sheets into one file. Why pay even more for something I can already do easily? An app for one of those phones is all the extra technology that's really needed to utilize the features of the special pages in the Rocketbook. And, that's what I love about this product. It uses the technology (i.e., the smartphones) I already own, it uses a relatively ordinary and cheap pen, and it has special polyester-based pages that work as well as normal paper ... while being erasable either by the pen's eraser or by water & cloth. A $30 notebook that you only need ONE of and replaces dozens of regular notebooks quickly makes that $30 notebook very cheap by comparison. It takes the model of "a pen and paper" and instead of re-inventing the wheel or overcomplicating it, just tweaks it to make it a more technological and ecological friendly solution. I had the Executive pad just one day before ordering the full-sized notebook, which I will use for sketches and diagrams. And, I liked that I had the lined pages for the Executive pad ... whereas I could get the plain sheets for the drawings. Allowing the two notebooks to serve very specific purposes. I've been extremely pleased with how well the notebooks have to proven to be exactly what I've been waiting for.

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  MLB

  

  Jan 13, 2025

  It took 3 tries, but I finally got my lined Rocketbook. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this product! It's helped me cut down on paper use: I own a small business and take copious notes for each of my projects. This is my 3rd Rocketbook (all being used: the biggest one is for smaller clients and personal notes, then 2 clients each have their own book). Being able to easily get digital renditions of my notes and keep them with my electronic files means less clutter on my desk and everything at my fingertips. A worthwhile business expense!

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