Rocketbook Core Reusable Smart Notebook, Lined Pages For School, Work and Creative Projects, Executive Size 6x8.8, Black - Premium

donyala78United States

Endless possibilities without the waste

This product is out of this world! I first received the Rocketbook Core as a birthday gift. I’d never heard of this product before, but a friend sent it to me since I work full-time, and I just recently went back to college. The product came packaged in a plastic bag but with each of the three items in a separate compartment. This product is not only functional but lightweight and easy to take to any meeting or class. The 18 page notebook comes with a cleaning cloth and a black Pilot Firxion pen which, as luck would have it, is erasable. The product itself is very affordable, running approximately $30 depending on where you get it from. The average notebook will cost you about $4-$5, but once you’ve used it most of us either keep it as clutter or just throw it away. Since this product allows you to erase and reuse the pages, it can outlast a multitude of paper notebooks with far less waste. Overall, it’s also great for the environment and is a solid investment. Of course, you can use it simply as a reusable notebook. However, if you have a phone with cloud capabilities you can use it to not only write your notes, draw, study, and brainstorm, but you can send those notes to your cloud services. The product allows you to download the Rocketbook App for free to upload your documents to your cloud services. There are 7 Symbol Presets listed in the app and on each sheet of your notebook. Each allows you to send the respective document to a designated area. For instance, if I want my work notes to go to my OneDrive but I want my college notes to go to my Google Drive, I just choose a symbol to coincide with the location I want my notes to be stored in. Scanning your notes takes seconds and the system is designed so you can put a title at the top of the page automatically saving your note digitally under that title. PROS- This product is very cost-effective, reusable, and environmentally friendly. It’s lightweight, stylish, and comes in several different colors. Additional products, like colored pens, can be purchased to enhance your note taking capabilities. The app is free, easy to use, and functions very well. It contains 18 front and back pages giving you plenty of room before erasing and reusing. CONS- The ink does dry quickly, but I have had the ink smudge if I immediately go to the next page. This has been a minor inconvenience when taking notes quickly. The cleaning cloth must be wet to use it, and it is inconvenient to carry a wet cloth to meetings or classes. I have been able to rub out a mistake quickly before the ink dries, but it would be nice to have a more convenient way to erase quick mistakes without getting the ink on my fingers. I was so inspired by the utility of this product that I bought one for my daughter as she is also in college. I purchased additional colored Pilot Frixion pens so I can highlight different notes for myself, and I plan to purchase the Rocketbook flashcards in the future.

Justice A.United States

HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Let me start off by saying: I found out about this product while watching a video on Facebook. A guy said it was worth the buy and I thought “this is too good to be true, let me research.” After a few hours doing research, I thought I would give it a try. As a full time college student, I easily spend $50-100 a semester on school supplies that I eventually lose. That being said, the reviews seemed great for the Rocketbook products so I ordered 2 notebooks (one grid/one ruled), flash cards and the Frixion colorful pens & highlighters. My review on the core notebooks: 5 ⭐️ Each book came with a black pen and cleaning cloth. Initially, the pages feel a little weird. It’s not paper, feels like plastic. Writing on them takes an adjustment, but the Frixion pens work amazing. It takes about 15-20 seconds for the ink to fry on the paper which is fine. To clean it, I sprayed some water on the page and used their cleaning cloth. It doesn’t get sparkling white like the original paper, but as you can see in the photos—you can’t tell the difference unless you really look hard. The pages dry really quick once you wipe them too. I absolutely love these books. It’s so easy to take notes and upload them to the Rocketbook app and view them later. It also allows for me to only use 1 notebook for all my classes. Given that I can upload my notes—it makes it so much easier to study. Personally, I have a habit of losing the notes I take in class so having them uploaded to the app makes it easy and convenient to look at them when I need them. ***HIGHLY RECOMMEND TO STUDENTS OF ALL KINDS**** Review for the Frixion pens: 5 ⭐️ The multicolored pen pack is amazing. My only complaint is that the pink pen stains the pages a little, thus erasing it is a little more difficult. However, once you completely clean the page, the little pink stain goes away too. I believe the pink pen is probably more concentrated, thus making it harder to completely erase like the others. But other than that, the pens are great. Review on the Index Cards: 5⭐️ The index cards are awesome. One side is ruled and the other grid. They work just like the core paper does. Easy clean up too. I highly recommend these for anyone who likes to make flash cards. Overall review: 5+⭐️ Rocketbook has really changed my academic life. I’m thankful for that Facebook video showing me this product. I’m definitely going to continue to buy their products. I highly recommend this brand and the Pilot Frixion pens. It’s well worth your money!

K. SpencerUnited States

Sounded too good to be true, I was wrong, it's awesome!

I bought one a while back, and I've gone through the book a good few times. I started school recently and ordered a second because I write down everything or I'll forger. Then I go back and write the pieces I need to focus on for study. I like being able to have the 2 books for that. Upload is so easy, and transcribes to text for me (option you can choose with certain things and I like that). Load everything onto Google drive and I have the help of writing on paper, AND the ability to look over things at literally anytime on my phone or whatever. Doctors office stuck waiting, in the car as a passenger (can probably load it to a reader actually....). It's handy. The pen it comes with makes it feel more like writing on a white board which is not for me. I ordered a set (actually a few sets lol) of colored pens and it feels almost exactly like regular paper writing. I write hard which can cause issues, and I erase when it's *better* to clean the notebooks then it is to erase but I'm gonna do it as it can erase right then. I'm 100% hard on the notebook. I even wrote a few words in regular pen on a page when my pen died not realizing until after. Whoops. So just cross the words off when I get to that page. Considering I'm way rougher on them then I should be, they hold up great! If you search hard you can see little indents from my writing, it still works just as it should. I'll probably have to replace it eventually to go back to having 2 notebooks, but it's well worth the money. It's already been super useful, and it holds up significantly better then I expected based on how I do write hard and erase. Now my home notebooks are scrap paper for to do lists and such. These are great. Won't ever go back. Also, the other pens dry much quicker so you don't have to wait like you do for the one it comes with because they will smear for longer (both are fairly quick big picture, the other pens are a few seconds vs closer to 20 or 30 I'd guess). The highlighters and markers all work great too! Got them all!

APATLUnited States

Surprisingly awesome

I was not expecting much from this purchase but now have to rethink life. I have been looking into an e-ink notebook and my wife bought me the Remarkable 2, but it was a gift and I bought this around the same time, not knowing she had purchased it. Now I am torn on which one to keep and I leaning on sending the Remarkable back. My favorite thing about Rocketbook is the writing feel. It is not just a natural writing experience but my writing comes out beautiful and satisfying. I much prefer the writing experience to anything e-ink. It is also $30 instead of $400. That does not even include the pens and folio you need with the e-ink reader. The Rocketbook has a great app that may take a few extra steps but once set up is pretty simple and has integrations to Google Drive, OneNote, email, Trello, Evernote, todoist, and more. Once set up, you just mark the box you want to integrate the note to. The screen capture works well but not a lot of frills, or none that I have drilled down into yet. The notebook itself is a combination of a dry erase board and notebook but it works well. Sure, I have to get a wet cloth and wipe it down to get all the ink off after a few minutes but its not a huge deal. The handwriting is smooth, clean, feels good, and looks like I am writing with a pilot .7 G-2 pen. If you are a tech lover, then this may not be the purchase for you. If you are looking to do away with the need for a smart device to remove distractions, then this may not be the purchase for you. But if you are looking to simply take beautiful notes that you can digitize easily, then this could be a great product for you.