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The World's Smartest Notebook - Rocketbook Everlast Review

2019-07-23 · Long video (solo, talking head or whiteboard) · Ali · recording, 6:22 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Tools, apps and tech · mode: Review and recommendation · tags: Sponsor segment present

In a sponsored review, Ali calls the Rocketbook Everlast worth its price: its pages scan into Evernote or other cloud services through programmable icons and wipe clean with a damp cloth, and writing on it is smooth and pleasant. Its only major drawback, he says, is that a reused notebook lacks a paper notebook's romanticism.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Plan of the review and the sponsored-review disclosure

  • ★★ Ali says his Rocketbook Everlast review is sponsored, but he tells brands that his sponsored reviews give his own unadulterated opinion and he will not let them tell him what to say. — 00:00:00

00:00:29 — Verdict and the two main features: scanning pages to Evernote, wiping pages to reuse them

  • ★★★ Ali really likes the Rocketbook Everlast and concludes that it is worth the money. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ The Rocketbook Everlast is an analog notebook with a small QR code on every page and icons you can program to do whatever you want. — 00:00:29
  • ★★ Ali has set the first Rocketbook icon so that when he shades it and scans the page with the Rocketbook phone app, the scan goes straight into his Evernote inbox. — 00:00:58 · Evernote
  • ★★ Ali, who has essentially gone paperless but still likes writing in physical notebooks such as his Leuchtturm 1917, wants his notes searchable, archived and copied to the cloud, which the Rocketbook workflow gives him. — 00:00:58 · Leuchtturm1917 notebook
  • ★★ The Rocketbook Everlast syncs pages easily to Evernote, OneDrive, Google Drive, OneNote or another service of your choice. — 00:01:27 · Evernote, Google Drive, Microsoft OneNote
  • ★★ The Rocketbook Everlast is meant to last forever: once the pages are used up, you wipe them with the supplied microfiber cloth, slightly damp, and the ink comes right off. — 00:01:27

00:02:15 — Wiping demo; the writing feel against the Leuchtturm 1917; the drawback of no romanticism, like the Kindle

  • ★★ Ali thinks a notebook you invest in should be a pleasure to write on. — 00:02:15
  • ★★ Ali loved writing on his Leuchtturm 1917 when planning emails and videos, and was surprised that writing on the Rocketbook's waterproof, slightly laminated paper is just as nice. — 00:02:46 · Leuchtturm1917 notebook
  • ★★ Writing in the Rocketbook is smooth and free-flowing, Ali says: planning videos on it, he found himself free-writing with a sense of progress, which encourages writing in it more. — 00:03:13
  • ★★★ Ali thinks the only major drawback of the Rocketbook Everlast is that it lacks the romanticism of a paper notebook such as his Leuchtturm 1917. — 00:03:13 · Leuchtturm1917 notebook
  • ★★ A finished paper notebook can be labelled on the spine and archived, Ali says, and a decade of them makes a memento, which a notebook you keep reusing does not give. — 00:04:00 · Leuchtturm1917 notebook
  • ★★★ Ali is a big evangelist for the Kindle: he thinks highlighting, carrying it anywhere and unlimited books outweigh its lack of the romanticism of physical books. — 00:04:29 · Kindle
  • ★ The Rocketbook Everlast comes in a pocket mini size and a normal size. — 00:04:29

00:04:59 — The pocket size for medical students on the wards

  • ★★ Ali has no use for the pocket Rocketbook himself, but says a medical student on the wards could carry it to note a condition, such as Tangier disease, and look it up at home. — 00:04:59
  • ★ Ali says many medical students carry notebooks of the pocket Rocketbook's size, but the Rocketbook is a lot thinner than most of them. — 00:04:59

00:05:28 — Giveaway, discount code and sign-off

In the description and comments

  • ★★ Ali notes that the Rocketbook works only with Pilot FriXion erasable pens, which he calls pretty good pens. — video description
  • ★★ Ali calls the Rocketbook Everlast pretty good and has started carrying it every day. — video description

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Mentioned

Central: Rocketbook Everlast

Also: Evernote · Google Drive · Kindle · Leuchtturm1917 notebook · Microsoft OneNote · OneDrive

Only in the description or credits: Pilot FriXion

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