Note taking is, and always will be, the heart of collaboration. Either on paper, your computer or via an AI, notes are crucial for everyone. Rocketbook has designed a reusable notebook that apparently you should be able to use again, and again, and again. I took that from the "important tips" I received with my Rocketbook Everlast. But, let's get straight to the point here. I can't use it once - let alone again, again and again.
What is the Rocketbook Everlast?
Excited to use my Everlast properly, I read through the instructions. I should be able to write notes in my specialised notebook, upload them to a Slack channel of my choice or send them to anybody by email, simply by scanning the page via an app on my smartphone. For anybody that takes regular notes - office managers, project managers, marketers, journalists, literally everybody takes notes - this should be the simple technology that stops us from going through reams and reams of paper.
Using the Rocketbook Everlast
The pen and paper feel is near perfect. In fact, it is perfect. If you offered your Rocketbook pen and notepad to a colleague, they would have no idea that it wasn't a regular pen and notepad. Therefore the user experience is nailed down. Nobody can say "I can't use this" and revert back to pen and paper.
The next stage is doing something with your notes. Depending on the model of Rocketbook you buy, you can upload to Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, OneDrive, OneNote, Slack, Box, iCloud, iMessage or email. I use Slack so thought I'd post my notes to a random channel to show off how cool my birthday present was and how I was going to save the trees one piece of paper at a time. However, scanning my notes from my iPhone X took me a good 90 seconds to get right the first time. The second time, even longer. Seemingly, there was no nack to scanning.
Scanning notes
I persevered and uploaded my notes to Slack and emailed them to myself - just in case. The notes arrived on my Slack channel and in my inbox. I was underwhelmed. After the amount of time it took to scan the notes, I essentially have a photo of my notes in my Slack channel. To take a photo of my notes and upload manually to Slack or email would have taken me 10 times less than using the Rocketbook app. Literally. I timed it.
