Rocketbook digital notebooks offer an ever-ready blank slate with cloud capability

Rocketbook Everlast Notebook
Rocketbook Everlast Notebook

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If you loved using Etch A Sketch as a kid, a Boston startup company called Rocketbook makes a line of digital notebooks that's right up your alley.

A number of different companies offer digital notebooks that let you save your sketches, drawings and written words in a digital format.

What sets Rocketbook apart is it offers two kinds of digital notebooks that you can wipe clean after you've drawn your doodles and uploaded the work into a "cloud" service, such as Google Drive, Dropbox or Evernote, by snapping photos of the notebook's pages with Rocketbook's smartphone app.

The Rocketbook Wave, the company's first offering in 2015 bankrolled with a $1.3 million Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, uses a special pen with special ink that disappears after the $27 notebook is gently cooked for a while in a microwave oven.

Then came the Rocketbook Everlast, which was funded with a 2016 Kickstarter campaign that raised $600,000.

Billed as an "endlessly reusable" digital notebook with paper-like pages made of a synthetic material, the $34 Everlast "erases like magic" with a drop of water. You still need a special pen - the Pilot brand Frixion pen. But it's readily available.

Or you could buy the Rocketbook One, a $17 non-reusable notebook that uses any kind of pen, but doesn't erase.

"The Rocketbook One provides the freedom of a traditional pen-and-paper notebook, while allowing you to instantly blast your notes into the cloud using your smartphone," the company says, adding, "THE ROCKETBOOK ONE IS NOT MICROWAVEABLE."

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