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The Amazing Rocketbook Everlast - Reviewed!
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May 29, 2025
Whether you're a student, office worker, reporter or scientist, if you take notes, you probably go through a lot of notebooks. Worse, organizing all those notes is hard. Which is why the Rocketbook Everlast is a pretty amazing invention: A notebook that you automatically scan, digitally file, and then wipe clean and use again. And again. And again. The magic is in both the materials and the smartphone software that makes scanning and automatic filing astonishingly easy. In this video review, tech expert and inveterate note taker Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ checks out the Rocketbook Everlast and is darn impressed... Learn more at https://amzn.to/2N52Ilg
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imagine a notebook that never runs out
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of paper let's check it out
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Dave tail here and I go through a lot of
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paper products not just me though it's
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my kids and everyone in my family we
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like to take notes we like to doodle you
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know whether we're in class and we're
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taking lecture notes as my kids are or
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where they're at meetings and we're
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trying to just keep track of everything
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that everyone talked about we go through
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a lot of paper the problem is is it's
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not only inefficient but it's hard to
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then distribute and disseminate that
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information to classmates to other
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people at the meeting or even just to
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archive things now you can get your
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spiral bound notebook but the problem is
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is that those tend not to be very easy
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to organize once you get more than one
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or two of them enter this this is the
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rocket book Everlast and this is a
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pretty sweet invention so the idea is
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that it is just a spiral bound notebook
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you can see this looks like a regular
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spiral bound notebook but when you use
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these pens and these are pilot FriXion
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pens and we'll come back to them in a
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second they're not crazy expensive or
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anything but when you use these pens on
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their special surface you can take notes
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it feels very much like pen and paper so
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it's all a perfectly normal experience
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but then there's an app and the app can
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scan your pages and automatically do any
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of dozens of different things with them
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for example I have it set up and
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actually let me just show you in this
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close up here on the very bottom of
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every page it's super hard to see
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because it's faint because you don't
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want it in your face but on the bottom
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of every page or is a series of little
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tiny icons now on this side they
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actually show you a little more easily
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what they are but each icon you can
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assign a specific action for example on
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the leftmost icon I have it
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automatically email me a PDF of that
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page that I scanned the next icon over
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automatically saves a copy to Google
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Drive the next run over automatically
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saves a copy to Dropbox and finally if I
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mark the fourth icon which is a little
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bell I have it set up to autumn
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matically text my son so if I am done
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some great piece of art or if I have
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some inspiration or wanted to send them
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a bad pun then I could do that and it's
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super easy in fact let me show you first
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off pen blank notebook and I will just
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real quickly do a quick doodle and my
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quick doodles are not super quick but
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that's okay so we will get there
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momentarily and let's change colors that
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was red now I'm gonna go to blue and
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just so you know we'll get back to this
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but this pack of three FriXion pens is
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under five dollars so these are not
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super expensive complicated pens the
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magic is really in the material that
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they use here but it's just it's fun you
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know and some of the colors seem to work
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better than others but we will just do
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something nice and straightforward there
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you go so it says this and then there's
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a robot face so now to scan it is super
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easy you go to your phone an Android or
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iPhone and you launch the app and then
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you just push the button
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now I'm gonna real quick do this
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particular image and oh you know what I
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didn't do is I didn't indicate where I
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want it to go this brilliant piece I
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think I'm gonna save in my Dropbox
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account forever so all I have to do is
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mark that appropriate icon and then when
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I scan it and I'll show you the scan the
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whole sequence in a second but literally
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I am scanning it it is scanned there we
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go now it's scanned and it's sent and
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that's it it's now saved to Dropbox
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that's how easy it is now where that
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gets super interesting is I can use the
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microfiber cloth dip one end into some
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water and you ready for this gonna kind
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of blow your mind I can wipe it clean so
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this is how this little skinny notebook
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then becomes something you can use
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hundreds of times and it does have a
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bunch of pages in it
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here we go I am now ready to use it
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again so obviously you have to wait for
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it to dry not a big deal but I have in
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advance written a limerick minus the
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last word so you will be able to guess
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what that last word is but of course
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that's a whole different story so now
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with this already written and again you
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know I'm literally just sitting there
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doing how I would regularly do notes
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with that in mind let me now show you
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and I'll talk you through the sequence
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of launching the app and you can see
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here my different destinations here's an
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archive of some of the other scans have
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done and now I'm just going to go ahead
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and get this and once you get it in the
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right spot it turns green and it scans
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and that's Auto sending and I actually
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scanned it twice oops so I sent it twice
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because that's how I have it configured
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and that's it that's literally all I
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have to do and now if it's a text
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message for example then it's ready to
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either send with a comment because I can
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set it up so I actually can change that
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as you can see here in this
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configuration or I can actually just go
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ahead and have it automatically texted
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so either way this becomes ridiculously
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easy if I'm at in a class and I have
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three classmates and we're on a team
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then I can simply mark that that's this
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particular set of notes and scan sent
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done that's it that's all I have to do
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it is insanely easy so this is a really
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really cool idea and I think rocket book
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has done a really nice job like I said
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you clean it with water and this
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particular one is with water they have a
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previous generation that actually sounds
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even potentially more fun as you
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microwave it because once the pages get
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to a certain temperature then you can
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wipe them clean this one's probably
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slightly less alarming especially for
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college kids you really want to teach
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them to put things like this in the
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microwave Wow but that's another story
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so you can hook these up any given page
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you can hook up to any of Google Drive
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Evernote Dropbox onedrive OneNote slack
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iCloud iMessage or email and of course
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you can email a group too so it doesn't
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have to just be a single email address
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and here's what's really neat is they
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just added a transcription service so
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here is the Rocket book attempt to
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transcribe my Limerick and they did
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really really well it's only the very
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last word it didn't quite get but I
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think that quote threw it off still that
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is a great step if I'm taking notes and
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I want to have just regular editable
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text although this is free its built-in
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it's automatic super easy to work with
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now let's talk about these pens because
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these pilot FriXion pens I don't know
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exactly what they are they're erasable
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ink is basically the deal but you know
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you can use these as regular pens -
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these aren't special to this notebook
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which is great and when you buy the
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rocket book it comes with a black pen
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and then I also just got an additional
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set like I said the three colors and I
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like having colors when I'm taking notes
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the three colors packaging is four
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dollars and 87 cents at Walmart so the
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cost of the pens is super cheap and
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that's really your only consumed good
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because this of course you wipe clean
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you use again you wipe clean you use
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again so it's super easy to work with
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and that leaves us with the price but
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before we get to the price leave me a
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comment and tell me how do you take
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notes when you're in a meeting how do
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you take notes when you're in a class or
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you're using a computer or a tablet or
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your smartphone or you still one of
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those paper types and if you are then
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how do you file and manage and organize
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all of your paperwork cool and hey while
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my channel thank you now this is the
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Rocket book Everlast
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and it is in the black cover you can
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also get it with red or blue or a really
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cool aquamarine color and it will cost
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you thirty four dollars with the one pen
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so you are totally ready to roll and it
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also comes with their very nice
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microfiber cloth which I assume once in
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a blue moon I'm going to need to throw
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into the washer or maybe just rinse out
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in the sink or something but pretty easy
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to do and frankly you could probably
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this the same thing with the tissue or
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something you just want to be careful of
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fibers anyway
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$34 check it out this is the Rocket book
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Everlast and you can get it at get
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rocket book calm this is Dave Taylor and
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I might just have become a convert I'm
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gonna try this with notes for some of
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the meetings I have coming up so that
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means I will catch you in my next video
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