Royole RoWrite 2 Smart Writing Notebook With Real Paper Pen Writing Without LCD Screen For Office, Art, Business Digitally Capture Handwritten and Convert To Digital

The RoWrite 2 is great for anyone who wants to have digital versions of their notes or to draw shapes/pictures by hand for digital use. In case it isn’t quite clear what the product is, it is just a notebook that tracks what you are writing and automatically makes a digital version of it. No need to snap pictures, like the rocketbook. It will automatically generate files of your notes. To use it, you just download the app to your phone or tablet and connect it via bluetooth. So long as the RoWrite is on and the app is open, it will automatically make digital copies of everything you write. This will allow you to have both physical and digital copies of your notes.The app is snappy and responsive, with almost no delay between writing something in the notebook and it showing up in the app. You can select different colors and brushtyles in the app. The hardware effectively captures the shape of your handwriting, so long as you are using an appropriate brushstyle to do so. As you can see in my attached picture, when I used a very thick brush for my cursive writing, it didn’t make for very legible text. But so long as I used a brush style that was thin like the tip of the RoWrite pen, it captured my handwriting just like it was on the physical page. That said, there are times where that thick brush is going to come in handy. So it’s great to have the option. It is just worth noting that you have to be cognizant of which options you are using in order to get the results you want.The RoWrite pen is pretty snazzy. It is magnetically connected to the RoWrite when not in use and charges there, much like the pen on the upper tier iPads. The writing experience is perfectly fine. That said, it seems like a missed opportunity on RoWrite’s part not to include a pen that would give users the experience of writing with a much higher quality pen. I suspect doing so would greatly improve users’ experience and appreciation of the device. I suppose there's always hope for this in future iterations of the device.While the app works great, it is worth noting that the company is shifting resources away from computer versions of the app, focusing on phone and tablet versions. While PC and Mac versions do exist and are available from the company’s webpage, they will not work on many computers. This too seems like a missed opportunity on Royole’s part. In the age of COVID, with all teaching online, having an inexpensive device that you can write on by hand and have it come up on the screen to share with students would be a great thing. Most of us who teach miss having a blackboard to write on in live sessions and have found no great alternative in the digital marketplace for teaching over Zoom.But, all the same, this is a great device and well worth the purchase price. Just being able to draw things by hand with a pen and have them available for digital use is by itself a huge boon for anyone creating lessons or presentations. Being able to have your notes digitally saved is also great. I can’t tell you how many times I wish I still had my old notes from some lecture or presentation. So it is nice to know that won’t be a problem going forward.I hope in future iterations of the device, we’ll see a nicer pen (in terms of writing experience—the tech aspects of the pen are already great), a larger size for the notebook, and more support for PC and Mac versions of the software. If those three conditions were satisfied for the RoWrite3, I’d buy it in heartbeat. These are seriously great devices to have.

I really wanted to like this product. I saw some great Youtube videos that made me excited about this purchase. When I received the product I could not make the OCR work at all. I was using an Apple iphone.I called the support number in California. Each time I called the IVR would answer by saying thank you for calling, and then it would hang up. That happened for both Tech Support and Sales. That is a bad sign when the sales calls do not route correctly.The notebook and pen looked beautiful, and captured my hand writig really nicely, but the functionality of the OCR not working was a deal breaker for me. Amazon was awesome on the return! I think there is still a large inventory of these items that need to be purchased, but Royale does not seem to have the capability to support them.Lesson learned here is that sometimes you have to believe the negative reviews. When looking at reviews try to find the dates associated with them. In this case the bad reviews started recently, and I believe this is because Royale is getting out of this product line.I found a much cheaper product that meets all of my needs. Take a look at the RocketBook line of products. I don't like the Wave (microwave erasing) but the other notebooks are great and work as advertised. Also, OCR is amazing despite my handwriting.

I have been using the RocketBook system, which works well and is very inexpensive, but wanted to upgrade to something more elegant that would automatically store my writing instead of having to scan each page.PROS : The product packaging is beautiful. The notebook itself is very elegantly designed and nice to the touch. The pen is round, all metal, and has a magnetic cap with a very pleasing snap as it effortlessly falls into place. The pen is secured magnetically and automatically aligned with its charging pins. You don’t have to buy special paper refills.CONS : I found the pen to be extremely uncomfortable in my hand and the cap cannot be placed on the end of the pen which is strangely annoying. The folder cover cannot be flipped over and will only lay flat. This makes it difficult to write on my lap or in a small space since it requires so much real estate. I had several problems connecting the pen to the app and I was never able to reach customer service or technical support. After searching online, some of the problems were resolved by force resetting the device. Once the pen was connected, it did instantly transfer my writing to the app but I felt like I had to jump through a lot of hoops to make it work. One huge problem I found was that you have to explicitly tells a device that you were going to a new page. This is done by pressing a button at the top of the spine. However after going to a new page, there is no way to go back to a previous page and add anything to it or make any corrections. In general I found the app very difficult to work with.MY RECOMMENDATION : I ultimately purchased the Moleskine Smart Writing System. Even though it costs $50 more and requires special notebooks, it is hands-down the best system I’ve ever used and it just worked right out of the box. They have an amazing customer service department as well. It knows exactly what page you are on and allows you to use multiple journals at the same time. There’s no need to tell it what page you’re on or in which notebook because it switches automatically. The pen will save 1,000 pages before it needs to sync with the app and it turns on by itself when you start writing so there’s no way to miss what you wrote because you forgot to turn it on. That was a huge oversight with the RoWrite. The app has too many features to list here. I can totally recommend the Moleskine system.