Rocketbook Fusion Reusable Undated Productivity Planner, Executive Size 6x8.8, Beige - Goals, Monthly and Weekly Calendar, Daily To-do List, Lined and Dotted Notes Pages
B**Y
The BEST way to take notes
I am a teacher and I am constantly looking for a way to plan lessons, take meeting notes, write down notes on students, and keep a planner going. I'm also a Master's student so I need a place to take class notes and keep track of assignments. I am really bad at keeping notebooks organized and tend to write down my notes on scraps of paper, random notebooks, and legal pads. I even bought an iPad Pro and tried using various apps to keep myself up to date. The only thing that has kept me on track and up to date on all my assignments has been this book.Its reusable, easy to erase, easy to use, and easy to keep yourself on track. The pens work well and its mind blowing how the erasing work. One of my favorite things to do is show people how I scan, save, then erase my notes. I've recommended this book to about 20 people and counting.The app is easy to use and navigate. I was able to get it setup and ready to use in about a minute. It keeps all my notes organized with the easy tagging system. I like handwriting my assignments so I frequently use OCR to transcribe my notes and get the notes typed for me. I send it to my email then copy and paste it to Canvas or Blackboard to submit it.I chose the Fusion because of all of the pages that are available. The first page is a project/task manager that I use to keep track of all of my assignments and their due dates. The next two pages are weekly calendars where I keep my planner. The next page is a monthly calendar. The page after that is a planner of some sort. It has 4 boxes, 1 for objectives, 1 for key results, 1 for action plan, and 1 for reflections. I find this to be really helpful for lesson planning for the day. The next page is another planner with space for an idea, rating, next step, and inspiration. I use this page when planning for projects and assignments for my students. After that there are 18 pages front and back for grid dots and lined pages. 9 for dots and 9 lined which come out to 36 pages total.It is a handy little book and I highly recommend it.
A**Y
BEST NOTEBOOK EVER!!! But…
I don’t always take the time to write reviews like I probably should but I felt it was necessary on this product for a couple reasons which I will explain below.1. The whole concept of a eco/environment friendly, RE-USEABLE notebook is just plain awesome! I have tried to switch to my iPad and Apple Pencil for note taking when it first came out, even tried fancy screen protectors with texture to feel more like paper but nothing will ever come close to the “pen to paper” feel to which I love when it comes to taking notes. Not to mention if you need to quickly jot something down, grabbing a pen and paper is much faster then your iPad - unlocking it and opening an app, a new note or notebook/page, etc…2. This notebook by far meets my needs when it comes to a “pen to paper” feel especially considering it is re-usable and scannable to so many platforms. Speaking of platforms, there are so many to choose from. I love that this company didn’t limit you to using and having to subscribe to their own service because that would have been less appealing and probably a no go for me. The app also can transcribe your notes if you choose making it easy for you to search for things. Oh how I spent hours looking through pages for a note I wrote down, “I know it’s here somewhere…” only to never have found it… Bonus points @Rocketbook!3. Microfiber Cloth: I am impressed at the quality of the microfiber cloth that was included. They could have easily given some thin crappy material that would have quickly deteriorated but nope, they spent the big bucks and included an extra thick and plushy cloth that makes me wish I had a bath robe or blanket made out of it! More bonus points @Rocketbook!4. Packaging: Cute packaging however, given the nature of having an environment friendly, re-usable notebook I would think the company would at least have recyclable packaging, this should be an easy change. @Rocketbook.Lots of pro’s and bonus points being thrown around I suppose it’s time to get to the nitty gritty, the “but…” Specifically pertaining to quality control, or is that even a thing @Rocketbook?1. Page cut quality… If you have ANY amount of OCD, this might be a problem. I am particular about what things I have OCD about, lol. Might sound silly but this bothers me a little for a couple reasons, mainly cause the company got everything else on point and let me down at something so simple to fix for an item they want to charge an amount that seems high to most, but I am willing to pay for so is it wrong that demand perfection? I made two separate purchases of Rocketbooks (one with 2-letters sizes and one with 1-executive), two different sizes, different colors, and one being the NEW “Fusion” which contains a few different page styles and all 3 books have flaws in the cuts of pages and some in the book covers (corners). Now, hear me out… a $2 notebook from where ever can give you straight pages, please tell me why when I am spending $34 (1 executive) or $68 (2 letters) I can’t get a notebook with straight pages??!?!?!?! I am supposedly going to have this thing for forever right? This is ANNOYING and a total let down. @Rocketbook - You need to redeem yourselves! *Photos provided.Tips: Clean up old paper notes by laying them on a Rocketbook page, add a title to the top in between double hashtags (## TITLE ##) so that it is searchable later (OCR must be enabled in settings), cross off your designated location at the bottom of the page, scan using the Rockbook app, and throw out your paper notes!!!
K**U
Great with a few minor grievances
I have been using my rocketbook fusion daily for roughly 4 months now and have found it to be immensely helpful in my goal of reducing waste and clutter around my desk for notes and drawings that I'd like to keep a record of, but not necessarily in physical form (for example, brain storms, sketches, and the like). The fusion handles both of these requirements nicely with the ease at which I can wipe pages clean with just a bit of water on the provided cloth and the scanner app that is available to send your notes to various destinations (I'm pretty simple in my usage here and just use email without OCR).While I wouldn't give up this notebook for my needs (mostly creative writing and NOT high speed note taking during a lecture), there are a few things that I think would help make for a better experience:1. Don't use the provided 0.7mm pilot frixion that comes with the notebook. It bleeds too easily on the paper which has a glossy feel and is less absorbent than your standard run-of-the-mill loose leaf making the dry time too long for fast note taking (especially if you're working with less real estate in the executive size book like myself). I would suggest getting yourself the 0.5mm frixion that allows for much more precision and has better flow control for the ink that comes out of the pen. My own handwriting is very small so I still experience a bit of bleeding, but it is still a marked improvement over the base 0.7 that is provided.2. Hard and heavier covers would be so very, very nice. The flexible covers aren't quite stiff enough such that you could use the notebook well without a hard surface beneath it. Also, they have warped over time with the jostling against other items in my EDC bag (see attached pic for my notebooks natural state now). In order to get a good scan, I typically have to bend the pages to get them to flatten for the few seconds it takes to snap the picture.3. The spiral spine. I suspect that it's probably difficult to do traditional threaded binding on these pages given their material but that spine is simply too noticeable to just ignore completely. While I've gotten more used to it over time, everything would be much more comfortable if that hump simply wasn't there.Just to be clear, these points don't prevent me from using the notebook for its intended purpose. I am very happy with what it is and what it has allowed me to do!
S**O
Great notebook but...
I like the notebook but for the price you asking... the quality is not the best. The pages aren’t cut well and 4 of them are damaged. I expect some quality for the price tag...
C**M
Notebook of the Future!
So been using this for a couple of weeks and I have to say I love it! Instead of trawling through dozens of notebooks I can now search my emails instead for what I am looking for! Meeting notes have been taken, uploaded/emailed and then scrubbed. Only slight drawback is that you need to remember to write lightly...heavy writing leaves indents in the page but this is not something that would put me off. I genuinely think I have found the only notebooks I will use in future!
J**K
It's extremely simple Technology
I do like this book and the whole concept. My initial reading about this is that the book itself had a technology to it and was very intrigued about it. THIS IS NOT THE CASE:This is basically a wipeable notepad using special pens. There are Icons at the bottom of the page that indicate your storage preference, you shade this. When a picture is taken using the app on the phone it does Optical recognition and depending on your preference set on your phone uploads the 'Scanned document' to the correct location.One of my major worry in this whole process is how secure the application is in handling credentials for your dropbox, one drive etc. If this application has any flaws, hackers could access your online document storage..... Be Careful. I created a standalone location for dropbox and ensure the saved 'Documents' are not confidential.I will use this notebook on this basis and saved countless trees as the vast majority of lot of times (95%), have found that I did I did not need the notes to be saved. Th other 5% of the times a simple photo using the phone would have sufficed, with that in mind there are much cheaper note books, or you could make one up easily enough custom mage to you exact requirements.
D**R
Great idea & product, for the price though a pen holder could be built in :(
Excellent product, already had a Rocket Book and upgraded myself to the FusionWould be nice if Rocket Books were assembled in such a way that additional pages could be added if required, also would prefer a harder cover so using the pad when out n about on my knee etc would be easierThe app features are what it’s all about and they’re great.....Rocket Book could add a pen holder as part of the book instead of gouging customers for an add on pen holder,I just glued the pack of my frixion pens to the outside of the front cover
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