I keep reading about the Rocketbook Everlast, including in this recent review:

“But what if you could combine the best of old-school notebooks with modern tech? That’s the ambition behind Rocketbook’s new Everlast notebook. You use it in the normal offline way, but when you scan the pages with your phone it shoots everything automatically to your preferred cloud service and makes it, in theory, more integrated with all your data. And it is infinitely erasable and reusable. I decided to test it around town and at the local hipster café. Would it replace my trusty Moleskines?”

Rocketbook’s Everlast promises to combine modern tech with old-school pen and paper. Will it pass Steven Poole’s chicken test?

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I am somewhat intrigued by this concept for a business setting, where it might be handy to have a lot of notes backed up to digital files. Or for list making, maybe, when you want to have things on your phone. But it just seems like a nuisance to have to photograph every page to upload it. I like the Livescribe concept better– using a special pen with the Livescribe notebook means your writings are automatically saved, without having to take a photo. Their notebooks are also nicer looking than the spiral-bound Rocketbook. Even though Rocketbook has a 3.5 x 5.5″ pocket size, I can’t see myself using one. If you’ve tried the Rocketbook or Livescribe, let us know in the comments what you think of it!