Mobile technology, including cellphones, tablets and the like, has rapidly advanced the over the last 20 years, enhancing productivity and the efficiency of communication exponentially. The traditional pen & paper notebook, on the other hand, has largely stayed the same. Most analog enthusiasts (ourselves included) appreciate the fact that the paper notebook is something that has yet to be replaced by digital screens. The tactile experience of putting ink on paper is still the best at manifesting ideas and getting into the “flow” of creativity. The folks at Rocketbook understand this need for analog in a digital world with their innovative, reusable smart notebook called the Rocketbook “Wave.” Bringing a new meaning to the expression, “cooking the books,” the Rocketbook Wave is a smart notebook for today’s tech savvy writer. The 80 dot grid pages of the Wave are coded with 7 icons at the bottom of each page, along with a QR code. These icons interact with the accompanying Rocketbook App (FREE for iOS and Android) to convert your work into the digital realm, utilizing the technological advantages of modern mobile communication. Through the integrated app, your work can be saved directly to the cloud to your preferred productivity programs like your e-mail client, Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, OneNote, Slack, Box, iCloud and text messages. The Wave can also be completely reused once you’ve filled up every page using the included Pilot FriXion pen. The notebook is designed to be microwaved to erase everything and start over. Thanks to the thermo-sensitive ink technology behind the Pilot FriXion pen, each notebook can be reused several times while keeping all of your work saved to the cloud. In this video, we demonstrate just how easy it is to use the Rocketbook Wave, saving your writing using the FREE Rocketbook app, and then erasing the pages to make the entire notebook reusable by nuking it in the microwave. For the purposes of this demonstration, we show how to quickly scan and send two pages to a text message and Evernote.

We know our readers care greatly about the writing experience, so we would like to include more detail here about what it was like to put FriXion pen to page here. The FriXion pen has a gel tip feel, writing smoothly with little pressure put on the page. It’s not quite as liquid as a rollerball, but a rich mark can be created with far less pressure than with a ballpoint tip. It is recommended that you write with as little pressure as possible. If you are heavy handed with tip pressure, you lessen the ability to reuse the notebook in the future, as the pages will have impressions of where you had previously written. Besides being able to nuke the entire notebook to erase it, you can also use the plastic nub on the barrel of the FriXion pen to rub away the writing on your page in case you make a mistake. Getting a word to completely erase takes about 10-15 seconds of lightly rubbing the area with the “eraser” end of the pen. The best part of all, no eraser dust! Writing over the previously erased area was another major concern. After nuking the notebook and going over the page that had the heaviest amount of ink on it, you can see a faint “ghosting” effect that the writing still has on the page. It is hardly distinguishable unless you’re closely examining the page up close. Writing over it using the FriXion pen works perfectly and is not distracting at all.