Hacker News Reader

Comment by lowkey | Hacker News Reader

A few years ago I supported a Kickstarter project for a paper notebook that may be a great fit for your needs. The Rocket Book is a wire bound paper notebook that has icons on each page and a mobile app. When you take a picture of a page with your phone it automatically syncs to your favorite cloud apps. As a bonus, it is designed to work with a special heat sensitive erasable pen so the notebook is reusable. Simple pop it in the microwave under a mug of water for 1 minute and the book comes out blank and ready for reuse. I am not affiliated and ultimately decided to type my notes or use an iPad but wanted to suggest it for those who prefer paper.

https://getrocketbook.com/

View on HN

Looks like current ones are water-washable instead of microwavable, which I assume has the disadvantage that you need to do it page by page.

But you can use off the shelf Pilot Frixion pens with all of them, including the OG Wave version (which they do still sell as one of their cheaper ones, but looks like it can only take a few erase cycles).

This looks surprisingly good. The app that does the scanning and transfer to other services has a 4.7 on the iOS App Store, so I assume it works reasonably well, and I don’t see any subscription fees whatsoever.

$20-60 for a notebook is pretty dear, but certainly cheaper than $200-300 for an e-ink tablet as long as you can get enough reuse out of them.

That's a good reminder, I did try Rocketbook, I just printed out some of the samples and used them with pen/paper. At that time I was trying to get fancy with making a custom template, but for most of my use I really don't need anything more than lined paper and I rarely refer back to it after I'm done with a day, so no need to scan it.

I had originally started with a Panda Planner (because I got a bunch of them years ago to try to get my family into the habit, but that plan didn't work, so I had them laying around). I generally liked it, but wanted to make a format custom to my workflow, and that's where the Rocketbook was going to come in. But eventually I just went with lined paper and carried that over to the Scribe.

Also of note: You can search and download "daily planner" templates on the Internet and print them to try different formats and see what works for you.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com