There are a couple of reasons I went through the trouble: the Rocket notebook is extremely expensive for the number of pages you get. I found I needed more pages to get me through a day of designs and meetings. The second reason is that the Rocket notebook template is so faint as to be nonexistent when working in low light. And the third is that as a lefty I find that other notebooks don’t smear as badly as the Rocket. I fully agree with you about the cleaning though…and that seems to be a problem with any of the reusable.

Right now I am using the self-made rocket strip on my iPad notebook. I get all the rocket features and no smear/cleaning issues.

I couldn’t help but think you went to a lot of trouble to make your own Rocketbook when they don’t cost that much.

I have a few Rocketbook in various sizes. The thing I don’t like about them is how messy it gets cleaning multiple pages. I always seem to end up with damp pages stuck together (until they dry). I tend to get enthusiastic about them for a while but then the hassle of cleaning them drives me back to paper and/or digital.