The brand new Rocketbook Professional is available in two sizes, the letter measurement (8.5 inches by 11 inches) is pictured.
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The Rocketbook Professional appears to be like like every other pocket book however it packs a stupendous secret: It is fully reusable, and the Rocketbook app makes it simple to switch your notes from the pages to your telephone.
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The pocket book comes with a Pilot FriXion erasable pen, a microfiber fabric to wipe the pages clear, a 40-page lined and dotted grid web page pack, and a scratch-resistant cowl.
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A 20-sheet, scannable pocket book to shortly switch your copy from written to digital.
Good notebooks are one solution to scale back your environmental affect, particularly if you happen to’re one to purchase a planner every year or a fan of journaling. Past their eco-friendliness, is the plain undeniable fact that lots of people nonetheless choose to handwrite their notes, journal entries, lists, and planning fairly than use a digital different.
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Personally, I’ve a better time remembering issues after I’ve handwritten them, which has been confirmed to be true for others in medical research.
The Frixion is a line of eraseable pens from Pilot.
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The greatness of the Rocketbook Professional is within the two-pronged method to a sensible pocket book; you get each the advantages of old school handwriting and the flexibility to digitally retailer and save your pages.
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How does that final half work? The pocket book cowl on the Rocketbook Professional options an embedded NFC chip that, when held as much as an NFC-enabled smartphone operating iOS or Android, results in the Rocketbook app. This can then allow you to scan your pages and save them as a shareable PDF, individually or as a bundle. It may be preset to robotically ship the scans to completely different locations, like OneDrive, Evernote, Slack, electronic mail, iCloud, Google Drive, field, OneNote, and extra; all with completely different codes which might be on the backside of every web page.
After you are performed along with your notes and happy with how they obtained scanned into the app, you’ll be able to wipe down your Rocketbook Professional web page clear with a moist microfiber fabric.
The Rocketbook Professional is a sleeker model of the sensible pocket book geared toward professionals.
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Rocketbook has additionally taken a step in the direction of a extra skilled look with the Professional sensible pocket book, by removing the spiral binding and versatile cowl in favor of a tough, scratch-resistant portfolio-style cowl product of vegan leather-based.
The hardcover on this newer possibility is one factor that many customers of earlier Rocketbook variations had requested. The Professional model may also lay fully flat when open for simpler writing and bends in 360 levels to take fast notes on the go.
As a fan of bullet journaling and group generally, I like how customizable a clean or dotted pocket book is. My bullet journal serves as an all-in-one for planning, writing down work duties and conferences, lists, to-dos, budgeting, and random annotations.
The Rocketbook Professional has a wide range of web page packs from planners to clean pages for sketching, so the flexibility to customise my planner is there. Pilot additionally gives various kinds of the erasable Frixion pen, like clicker coloured pens, markers, pastels, and extra choices to make my journaling coronary heart flutter.
Except for a moist fabric, the included Pilot Frixion Pen has a fairly efficient eraser on one finish.
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I like retaining my previous journals as snapshots of my life at that stage, however scanning and saving my pages serves the identical goal and the truth that I can simply wipe down the pages to begin over is so handy.
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Having used it for various weeks, I am unable to say for certain that I am going to by no means return to my pen and paper pocket book, particularly my beloved bullet journal. However I can positively say I will not for whereas. I like the truth that the Rocketbook Professional is flexible so I can create my very own layouts on the dot grid, and I can wipe off any errors I make — one thing I am unable to do on my paper bullet journal. For now, I discover myself reaching for my Rocketbook completely every time I’ve to take down a fast be aware or attempt to set up my ideas, so it has been a win in my ebook.
The Rocketbook Professional is accessible in letter measurement, 8.5 inches by 11 inches, which retails for $60; and a 7 inches by 9 inches govt measurement, priced at $55.
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