Rocketbook Reusable Sticky Notes are an excessive solution for too many sticky notes.
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Hands-on: Handwriting recognition app brings sticky notes into the 21st century
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Wait -- I had these as a kid. Just a thin film of plastic over a black background. They were endlessly re-usable!!
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Here's the problem:
If it's something simple and ephemeral enough that it's going on a sticky note, I don't need to digitize it. I jot it down, leave the sticky on my monitor or wherever as a reminder so I don't forget it (usually when I'm hips deep in some other task I can't put on hold but I don't want to forget this thing) and then when I've been reminded and do the task the sticky gets crumpled and thrown in the trash.
If it's something more important that I do want to digitize and potentially share - an outline, important notes, etc - then I'm not using a sticky note for it. Maybe it's on a note pad, maybe it's in a word doc, whatever different tools for different tasks. But it's not on a sticky note.
It's a clever idea and I've seen something similar (from the same folks maybe) for notebooks that you write on, digitize, and reuse that made more sense. But the stick pad aspect is ill fitting and a product in search of a use case.
If it's something simple and ephemeral enough that it's going on a sticky note, I don't need to digitize it. I jot it down, leave the sticky on my monitor or wherever as a reminder so I don't forget it (usually when I'm hips deep in some other task I can't put on hold but I don't want to forget this thing) and then when I've been reminded and do the task the sticky gets crumpled and thrown in the trash.
If it's something more important that I do want to digitize and potentially share - an outline, important notes, etc - then I'm not using a sticky note for it. Maybe it's on a note pad, maybe it's in a word doc, whatever different tools for different tasks. But it's not on a sticky note.
It's a clever idea and I've seen something similar (from the same folks maybe) for notebooks that you write on, digitize, and reuse that made more sense. But the stick pad aspect is ill fitting and a product in search of a use case.
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I feel like this is something for the kind of people who used the Sticky Notes widget in Windows 7. I had a friend whose (small) company was held together by those. Or the kind of poeple who lives or dies by sticky notes because they a) don't do notebooks well/insert whatever organizational tool that works and/or b) don't have the talent of Just Remembering Things (when I got my first real job at the age of thirty I discovered that is an actual talent, and most people don't have it).
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I use sticky notes a lot, but I agree that something I would write on one isn’t something I would care to digitize. The reusable notebook is intriguing though.
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Ironically, if I need to remember something I'll stick a post-it on my phone screen so I spot it when I grab my phone.
If it's buried in an app I'll forget to check it or get distracted.
Maybe I should just get an industrial paint marker and make my phone the reusable surface…
If it's buried in an app I'll forget to check it or get distracted.
Maybe I should just get an industrial paint marker and make my phone the reusable surface…
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Agreed. If I need a TODO item, I'd just pull out my phone and quickly create one in a todo-list app.
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I just have a notepad text doc I make available to all the devices I use. That seems the most convenient for me. The new tabbing in notepad makes it even more handy.
This does seem pretty neat though, just not for me.
This does seem pretty neat though, just not for me.
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These phrases have completely negated my need for sticky notes:
"Hey Siri/Google, remind me to _______ in an hour"
"Hey Siri/Google, add ________ to my to-do list"
"Hey Siri/Google, set a timer to __________ at 10:30 AM"
If it's something more long-lived I need to remember, I have separate OneNote documents for work and personal stuff.
"Hey Siri/Google, remind me to _______ in an hour"
"Hey Siri/Google, add ________ to my to-do list"
"Hey Siri/Google, set a timer to __________ at 10:30 AM"
If it's something more long-lived I need to remember, I have separate OneNote documents for work and personal stuff.
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I love this idea. I hate that it is limited to frixion pens. They are perfectly adequate writing implements. But if I'm taking the time to write by hand, I want more than adequate.
Yes, I am a pen snob. It is a problem.
Yes, I am a pen snob. It is a problem.
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As an aside, I do not have this talent, and I am constantly dealing with management that does (they get promoted in part because of that skill) and totally does get the plebeian world the rest of us live in. So we suffer with everyone having their own tools or processes for tracking and mgmt doesnt care because they are just fine hearing a thing once and remembering it forever.
So what happens when I need to know something outside of my lane? Well, either figure out how xyz person tracked their shit. Or go to management, who is always busy.
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I love the Rocketbook notebooks, but as people mentioned above, sticky notes feel like more of an ad hoc tool than something where I want to preserve content.
One thing to note is that you shouldn't use the eraser on Rocketbook products, as it'll wear through the coating on the page and make them stop writing and erasing well.
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YetAnotherAnonymousAppellation
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Yet another single-purpose e-widget that nobody really needs. No wonder we're being buried under e-waste. Anyone who buys this crap deserves to be publicly shamed.
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Like several comments, this seems like a weird niche to try and fill.
I only use sticky notes for one-time information which needs to be at a particular location; rather than adding a phone to the mix with the (I suppose) bistable display, it seems easier to just go straight to e.g. Obsidian.
I only use sticky notes for one-time information which needs to be at a particular location; rather than adding a phone to the mix with the (I suppose) bistable display, it seems easier to just go straight to e.g. Obsidian.
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OMG... SNL got it right again!
Versatile. Intelligent. Sticky.
Macintosh Post-it Note.
Sidenote: has everyone forgotten that paper is inexpensive, renewable and biodegradable?
Versatile. Intelligent. Sticky.
Macintosh Post-it Note.
Sidenote: has everyone forgotten that paper is inexpensive, renewable and biodegradable?
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Sticky notes run my life. I use multi-colored sticky notes and change their locations regularly to ensure that they continue to catch my attention. This is one of those "better mousetraps" that fails to improve upon something that is already good enough.
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Huh. Half the time when I ask Siri to do that it gets confused. Maybe next time I'll ask 'Siri/Google' and see if that helps. Thanks for the tip!
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Agreed, I don't love the pens themselves but hot damn do I love the erasable nature of them. Hopefully whatever patent they have on them expires soon so we can get some good quality rollerballs out.
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what happened to the "smart paper" company that sold paper embedded with an invisible point grid which was then read by a sensor on the pen to track the handwriting?
Half the point of post-its is location location location - not so much the note, but where it's physically at.
Half the point of post-its is location location location - not so much the note, but where it's physically at.
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Ah yes, "It doesn't work for me, therefore it must not work for anyone," the natural counterpart of "It works for me, therefore it must work for everyone". You love to see it.
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I've seen knockoffs from Chinese brands, so maybe the patent is already expired. They're...adequate. Aren't Frixions already rollerballs?
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What's wrong with using Google Keep or Microsoft OneNote, or the granddaddy of note-taking apps, Evernote?
Or maybe Notepad++, which saves the content of files from one session to another. IN this way you can go and save it next time you open or use the application?
No matter how many times you can re-use one of these new-fangled sticky notes, trees are still getting felled in their making, or petroleum products consumed.
Or maybe Notepad++, which saves the content of files from one session to another. IN this way you can go and save it next time you open or use the application?
No matter how many times you can re-use one of these new-fangled sticky notes, trees are still getting felled in their making, or petroleum products consumed.
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Honestly the most exciting part of the review- I had no notion of wipeable surfaces that work with Frixion inks! Often encounter dry erase or chalkboard situations where heat erase would be a massive improvement.
Didn't know about the Frixion being available in marker/highlighter forms either- now I'm wondering if they would work on a normal dry erase board? Apparently these reusable notes are made from "BPA poly-free plastic" so perhaps any sheet of plastic with a relatively smooth finish and a microfibre cloth could do the trick?
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I think I remember seeing that. There were also the older style ones that used a special writing surface and digitizer like this LGR video shows:
(When I first saw the holder these things were in I assumed it would that sort of device... TBH kind of disappointed it's just a smartish photo scan app.)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHC438sW_2Q
You do need to go through quite a lot of paper to equal the estimated carbon load of an electronic device. This article summarizes some other sources estimating anywhere from ~22.5 to 100 paper books for the manufacture of one e-reader. I guess if it's a multi-purpose primary device like a phone or laptop that math could be improved a bit, but you'd have to weigh that against replacement/obsolescence cycles. OTOH I doubt I've filled 22.5 books worth of notes in my entire life, so I guess notetaking could be seen as a "free" relative to any given device considering a low volume of notetaking. Then of course there's the question of the reputedly greater memory retention from taking handwritten notes - of course using a stylus/tablet probably covers that base but then there's the other question of - what if you lose power, what if your device breaks and you need to access your notes? To which some people might reply "well then you just access your cloud synced notes on anotehr device entirely, so then we're talking about the carbon equivalence of multiple devices, PLUS cloud server storage, and this is all assuming that hte bugs haven't invaded the earth yet and...
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As someone who puts some sticky notes into their notebooks and is constantly wondering how to digitize their handwritten notes I'm definitely the target demographic. Unfortunately for me, my handwriting is way too small for all digital pads I've tried. I consider some kind of optical character recognition software informed by an AI trained on my handwriting as my only hope for resolution. Granted, unless I make that tool myself, I'm very much on the fence about whether I want such a tool to exist...
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Are you seriously suggesting we replace a bunch of recyclable 1g sheets of paper with a 200g electronic device that's likely to become e-waste in a few months?
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Have no experience with it, but happened to be looking into this at some point and there's Tesseract, which I believe is an open source (albiet Google supported) trainable OCR https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
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Can't wait for the inevitable monthly subscription fee to be added to the app in a few years.
Finally, true SaaS: Stickies-as-a-Service.
Finally, true SaaS: Stickies-as-a-Service.
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Finally a way to remember all those passwords that bad company policies unchanged from the 90s or 00s mandate... oh wait...
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I am a Rocketbook user and I have a set of the sticky notes. They work great but they are pretty small. I really need something the size of large note cards.
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Cheers
I actually use the Stickies app and I'm not really a postit note user. (There's no notes stuck to my desk or monitor.) I used it a lot more while taking classes than I do now. It was convenient then because when I needed to make temporary notes it was already open for class. These days it's less convenient and I just use one of those little <$1 palm sized throw away notebooks or flip pads.
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A Rocketbook is just a paper notebook with a specialized QR code printed on it. There is nothing electronic about it or the pen That could be e-waste. No batteries, no processor no screen. The app runs on your phone.
Do you often reply to things without basic understanding, or is this a one time thing for you.
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Another Apple (and SNL) idea that was just too early for the market:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-BH8j06pM
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q-BH8j06pM
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They are, they just aren't very good ones in my opinion. The writing doesn't feel as smooth as some other pens I've used and the pens themselves just feel cheap.
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I like Rocketbook but on the other hand I don't think it solves a problem anyone actually has. Sure you have a reusable notebook but now to make permanent copies you have to scan it to a notetaking app that to quote Cory Doctorow, all have adversarial interoperability. Scan it to any app and you silo your data to formats you're then beholden to. None of them play nice with each. Look at the way Evernote has imploded. Most notetaking apps are profoundly terrible even when they're format neutral using Markdown. You also have to use Frixion pens that are horrible.
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