The Best Notebook I Have Ever Come Across
If there is anything a student probably does not like about taking notes, one of those things is having lots of notebooks filled with notes. In the times of the pandemic there is another new annoyance that students face when writing their notes. More specifically students and professors often must scan their notes and assignment work and convert it into a pdf file. A lot of students do not exactly have great scanners to scan their pages, so their pdf file of their work is not the greatest quality or worse fighting with the lighting on the document on your paper is a nuisance. Of course, one can try to type all their notes, but of course anyone in any mathematics or logic-based courses knows, typing your notes in such a class is about as possible as growing wings and flying. Even with all the keyboard shortcuts memorised I cannot possibly type any of the formulas I need to in class fast enough. One could get a tablet and a stylus to take notes during class, but tablets alone are kind of expensive and not every student can afford to get one, and on top of that one must worry about keeping the tablet charged. I personally do not like writing on a tablet because it still does not quite feel like writing with a real pen. This is where the Rocket Book notebook comes in.
About a year and a half ago, when I was talking with someone over the phone, they told me about some notebook they had seen, and were telling me about how one could write on this notebook scan it send it to wherever and then just erase the pages and keep reusing the notebook. At the time I thought that sounded cool and was a little too good to be true. So, I sort of just kept it in the back of my mind. During Christmas I was given one of the Rocket Book notebooks as a gift, more specifically the Rocket Book Fusion the second generation of the original notebook. Ever since I have hardly ever wanted to use anything else. The notebook has many nice qualities. The first and obvious pro is that it the pages are completely reusable. Once one is done with a page, they can just erase it. With the Fusion in particular, one just erases the pages with a damp cloth with water. The pages themselves are water-proof, and tear-resistant! The pages and cover of the notebook itself are quite nice neither of which are flimsy or weak materials. In the Fusion, it comes with a wide variety of different types of pages in it. It has planners, calendars, dot grid, lined, to do list, and bullet/idea journal pages. I personally use the dot grid pages the most because I do a lot of maths related work so drawing graphs is quite easy to do. Its convenience does not end there. The Rocket Book notebook pages are designed to be scanned and sent in many ways. So, when one scans the pages with the app, one can completely ignore shadows because even if a shadow covers half the page it will not show up in the document. At the bottom of every page there are some symbols, each of which can be pre-set as a specific destination so that when you scan a page and cross one of the symbols it will automatically send it to the pre-set destinations. The pre-set destination which you can custom choose are highly compatible with things like, Google Drive, Slack, iMessage, email, Evernote, Dropbox, OneNote and even OneDrive. One of my pre-set destinations is set to my university OneDrive and it works exactly how one would want it to.
The only real con to the Rocket Book Notebooks, is that one must use a special kind of pen, but the pens are essentially the same price as regular pens. I hardly consider this a problem because the pens are good, and one must buy pens anyways for writing on regular paper. So, if anyone is considering whether they should get one of the Rocket Book notebooks, the short answer is: definitely. There are many kinds of Rocket Books with different size and types of pages, with different smart capabilities. I personally plan to get a second one known as the Rocket Book Matrix which is more for people who draw many graphs or write a lot of maths related content. I rate this notebook 6/6. It really is the best notebook I have ever seen.
N. Monk, Futurist and Philosopher
