Rocketbook notebooks for Lefties

Comments: 14

• 25 Aug, '17
  OLIVIER FONTANA

  Top is not enough for lefties, at least if it's a spiral one. I have the same issue (lefty), and left or top spirals don't work.

• 26 Aug, '17
  Steven Chen Admin

  @Olivier -- do you have any suggestions re: notebooks that work well for lefties? Thanks!

• 05 Sep, '17
  Bryan McGrew

  Spirals placed on the right side and the pages in reversed order would make them a left handed notebook.

• 23 Sep, '17
  Stephen S

  Can I suggest you add a setting to the app, which simply reverse pages when scanning. That way we can continue to use the notebook in reverse, but upon scanning the documents are correctly ordered?

• 03 Oct, '17
  Andrew Yang

  @Steven Chen, @Olivier Fontana, @Bryan McGrew: I think the issue isn't that of the spiral location, but that Frixion ink smudges. The only solution I've found is to write at a sharp-angle so my hand doesn't sweep over the fresh-ink.
  @Stephen S: I've seen folks write in reverse and it's a super-trippy amazing skill. Is that what you do? If so, props to you!

• 24 Dec, '17
  David Goldfarb

  Better yet, eliminate the spiral altogether. As a lefty, I was immediately bothered, but I'd imagine that righties would be equally bothered on the even-numbered pages.
  
  For many years, I've used a simple paper notebook from office depot. The front, back, and spine are vinyl; the spine includes an inside pen holder, and the replaceable paper pad is held in a sleeve into which it slips in from the top. This both eliminates the spiral and offers a protected pen holder.

• 30 Jan
  Jim O'Sullivan

  Please contact me when there is a "LEFTIE" Rocketbook available

• 23 Feb
  Judith Aguilar

  Ink smudging is, unfortunately, a necessary evil. Top spiral is better for Lefty use because you can write end-to-end on the paper without ever running into a spine. Hopefully, you will come out with a lefty rocketbook soon because I will buy it.

• 27 Mar
  Erin

  I also use it backwards or turn the spiral to the top. As a lefty there has never been much choice. Top bound is my personal preference, but I can and have written backwards. I find that as a lefty, writing vertically from right to left avoids ink smudge. Like traditional Japanese.

• 19 Apr
  Allen Krasna

  +1 to the idea of fixing this in a SW way

• 14 May
  John Mazza

  +1+1+1 for Top-Bound
  +1 for Left-Bound
  I'm not leftie but see why left-side spiral notebook is a problem.
  I've used Top-Bound "Steno Pad" style paper pencil notepads for years but of course get tired of trying to figure out what to do with the stacks of archives. Just opened up my Rocketbook One (6x9) ... pretty cool, but am already thinking "If they just had a Top Bound ..."

• 23 May
  Suavitas

  Do not turn the spiral to the top. Turn it to the bottom. I use only the left side of the pages, scan the whole bunch, wipe them clean, turn the rocketbook upside down and then use THIS left pages.

• 27 Sep
  Tom Rathke

  I use top-bound notebooks. I write left-handed and the top bound is perfect. But my wife writes with her left in such a way that top bound does interfere. There will be no way to please everyone. I use the Rocketbook sideways placing the spiral on top so it would be nice if pages could be rotated in the app before sharing. However, top bound note books are everywhere and solve many problems for both right-handed and left-handed people. So I suggest both top-bound and rotating scans in the app.

• 02 Dec
  Ivy

  Ok, yes, pretty please with cherry on top! Lefties like me will thank you!