RocketbookSmart Reusable Notebook, Mini Spiral Notebook, Midnight Blue, (3.5" x 5.5")

I got this to use when I am assessing my home health clients, to write down their vital signs and any extra information they give me so that I can document everything correctly and not forget what they said. This reusable notebook has got to be one of my favorite tools for nursing. I love that I can write down everything I need to and then easily erase the information at the end of the day. The paper does have a decent thickness to it, so the ink does not bleed through and the paper does not get saturated with using a damp cloth to erase the ink. This saves me so much money on buying notebooks plus helps to keep my client information safe by being able to just erase it instead of having to worry about shredding it (even though I do not write their names on it). It fits perfectly in my scrub pocket and does not take up much space, it works great and I love using it. I have recommended it to my nursing friends.

I get it. The ADHD joke. There are piles of notebooks in my house that I've bought to help tame my ADHD, and my Amazon account holds the proof. But this little wonder, this little gem, holds the key that unlocks the secret to the Great Notebook Destash of 2023!I have a couple of Rocketbooks. A larger one, and this small one. This is my sidekick. I like the ability to quickly and easily write notes and then destroy them with a spray of water and a wipe with a microfiber cloth. I'm sure there is value in the cloud storage, but I haven't got as far as exploring that yet, as I use Notion and I understand that it's not yet possible to save my notes to Notion without some great finagling of APIs.The Rocketbook is durable. You write on the vinyl-like "paper" and don't have to be concerned that your vigorous wiping (with the abovementioned microfiber cloth) will somehow pull the pages away from the spiral binding because it can be tempting to wipe hard to get the black ink off the page. Leaving the ink there for a while can cause it to leave a more permanent imprint on the page, I'm told, though I haven't run into this problem yet.The Frixion pen that comes with the notebook writes nicely. It glides on the page smoothly and doesn't seem to smudge. I did buy the pen holder because my desk is a mess and I'm notorious for losing pens, even though I have 2 pen cups on my desk. I wanted to make sure the pen I need to write with didn't get swapped out for a regular pen, a permanent marker, or some other incompatible pen. Safety first! The pen holder was a breeze to apply and has kept my Frixion pen safely attached to my Rocketbook since day 1.The microfiber cleaning cloth is just slightly smaller in size than the notebook, and so it sits unobtrusively in the back of the notebook and is always there when I need it.My main use for this smaller Rocketbook is to take notes of things I need to remember temporarily - things I would normally write on sticky notes, scrap paper, or old envelopes. It sits beside my work computer so I can remember what I need to report on in our Agile stand-up meeting, and then erase the notes as soon as the meeting is over. I can note down action items during meetings, then erase them as soon as I've completed the tasks, or moved the note to my calendar.Prior to Rocketbook, I'd have piles of sticky notes and other paper scraps, and not remember what I'd completed, or where I left the note I had just taken. I think the Rocketbook works well for me because I know there are limited pages, so if I'm only writing in the Rocketbook I have to keep it updated (by erasing notes I no longer need) to have room for more notes.There isn't really a downside to using a Rocketbook. You do need to only use Frixion pens, but you can get them in so many pretty colors that it's really no hassle at all!Now I need to go through and cull my Amazon wishlist, removing all the sticky notes and notebooks that I've amassed over the years. Then I can get rid of all the small notebooks and piles and piles of sticky note pads - I just don't need them anymore. Thank you, Rocketbook!

I got everything I hoped for with his little notebook, it's really super cool. I take a lot of notes for my job, usually involving a few network drawings and that sort of thing, and I managed an endless to-do list of tasks, and in the line of business I'm in, it's not always practical or polite to use a screened device like an ipad. So I'd gotten in the habit over the last few years of carrying a reporter's notepad with a leather cover (my wife calls it my "cop notebook") and taking notes that way, scribbling away on paper, occasionally taking a picture of a page or two to send to a colleauge and burning through, oh, maybe 2 or 3 50-sheet 3x5 notepads a month. And (don't laugh) I also write a lot of poetry and have, for these same years, had an identical setup for my, ahem, creative writing. I was pretty sure I was happy with this setup until I saw the Rocketbook Mini. It was intriguing, the idea of having a small notepad that could be reused, and the promise of an app that could scan the pages simply, turn them into pfd or image files and send them and store them was really intriguing. So I bought one, in Orange (because that is obviously the best color in the whole line) and tested it out.I can report I am utterly satisfied. Yes, it took a little getting used to for me. I like to flip my notepads open and write from the top of the top page to the bottom of the bottom page and I was wondering if the spiral in the middle would bother me (it didn't)... I was wondering what the feel of the thing would be (it has a for-sure "slicker" feel due to the non-paper pages, less friction than writing on paper but certainly more than writing, say, on an iPad with an Apple Pen) and I wondered if I'd like the pen (it's just fine) and the line the erasable ink make (also fine... fine as in "okay" and fine as in "narrow").The real magic is in the app. I was and remain kind of... stunned... that it works as well as it does. Scanning pages is quick and precise and the ability to scan four or five pages of work notes and drawings and send to work colleagues as well as scanning four or five pages of bad poems I've written means I can finally unite everything in one notepad, one that I'm told will last forever. Pretty dang cool.So dang cool in fact that I turned one of my best friends onto Rocketbook and now he has one too, in green (the second-best color of Rocketbook, obviously) and he's doing things like drawing dungeons in it for D&D and creating character sheets that he scans and sends to players.The only downsides or things I've found I have to manage around are obvious things like, well, I can't rip out a sheet and pass it along as a note (unless I scan and email) so that makes it a change for me, and the pens. I guess I'll have to get past my anxiety that Pilot will stop making Frixion pens someday and render my Rocketbook Mini useless... because, look: the cool thing behind this is, it's essentially a wet-erase multiple-page whiteboard you can carry around in your pocket, with a really hot scanning and document management app (that also includes OCR)... and it actually works! Can't recommend it enough for any use case that involves writing, drawing and note-taking... as long as that use case doesn't involve getting wet. :)

This is an excellent notebook for those who love technology, but can't stop writing using pen and paper. Great for on the go notes.Pros:Excellent build qualityGood size for fitting in small pocketsApp works very well and has a lot of options, including OCR for converting handwriting to text in addition to the original scanErasing with the microfiber cloth is wonderful. No marks are left after cleaning a page.The pen works not only in this notebook, but in any paper. The thing is that you have to use the pen's rubber to erase the ink on other papers.Cons:Writing is not quite the same as writing in actual paper, because this is a sinthetic paper, more like a plastic paperInk takes 10-15 sec to dryErasing with the pen's rubber leaves little marks. To remove them, must clear with the cloth