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How to Set Up Your Rocketbook with OKR Templates
And other planning layouts.
Notebooks are on the spectrum of magic for me. They take what’s in my head — my ideas — and turn them into something tangible. Something workable.
I taught a class today on setting up planners and notebooks for the new year and I had to be careful to point out that digital works. It’s okay if you prefer to take all your notes in Evernote and use your Google Calendar for planning.
Really, it’s okay.
But for me? The magic is in the act of handwriting on paper.
There’s one notebook, though, that gives you the best of both worlds. The Rocketbook. This little notebook is reusable. You write in it with a Pilot Frixion pen and use water (or dry erase board cleaning fluid) to wipe it clean when you’re done.
The Rocketbook comes in two sizes. Letter, which is 8.5" X 11", like a standard sheet of paper. And executive, which is 6" X 8.8", or a little bigger than A5 size. Any style of Frixion pen works on it. The notebook comes with a microfiber cloth you can get damp with water and use to erase to your heart’s content.
I like to use dry erase board cleaning fluid and a dry cloth to clean a whole page. Precision cleaning — say just a line, rather than a whole page — can be…
