![]() ![]() Ecojot was awarded the Ancient Forest Friendly and Order of the Forest Awards by Canopy in 2012. The mill is ranked the 17th most responsible company in the world by Corporate Knights.Įcojot’s inks and glues are vegetable-based, and all black and kraft board covers are sourced from sustainable suppliers in North America. Carolyn designs the beautiful artwork that graces each cover.Įcojot paper is 100% post-consumer recycled paper made entirely from old waste paper in an award-winning sustainable paper mill in Québec, Canada. The family-owned company was founded in 2007 by brother and sister team Mark and Carolyn Gavin, produced in Toronto, Canada. There are so many things to like about Ecojot and its spiral-bound Jumbo Journal line, it’s tough to know where to begin. We’ve put together this list of the best eco-friendly notebooks that are also well-made, functional and for some, even beautiful. ![]() You’ll find notebooks with recycled and alternative papers, eco-friendly covers and bindings, and even reusable notebooks. Thankfully, a number of companies today have responded to consumer demand for more eco-friendly paper options. The paper industry is also the fifth largest consumer of energy in the world, or 4% of the world's total energy use. The pulp and paper industry generates an incredible amount of industrial air, water, and land pollution, for example accounting for about 5% of all industrial pollutant releases in 2015. That could mean that you’re consuming trees, the water and chemicals needed to process and bleach the paper, and any other raw materials needed for binding. This Five Star notebook is really just a two star notebook.Whether you use it for drawing, journaling, as a diary, or to organize your life or business, a notebook can be an outlet for your creativity, hold your deepest secrets, or record your dreams for the future.īut keeping a notebook also means that you’re using paper. It’s easier to take pictures of your notes or to download a better app for flashcards. Overall, I would not recommend this app or the notebook. It was also annoying that I had to go back over my notes when they looked faded in the app.įor the flashcards, I liked how I could import pictures of past notes or even a textbook, but there are definitely other apps that can do that, like Quizlet for example. The scanning feature over-brightens the paper, and I would rather just take a picture of my notes. The app is great in theory, but in reality, it’s just a gimmick to sell notebooks that I don’t see myself using it very often. Occasionally, the cropping feature wouldn’t move when I dragged it, so it made the app difficult to use. After cropping them, the flashcards made from the pictures were easier to read than the flashcards made from scanned notes. I took a picture of my old notes and imported it into the app to compare with my scanned notes. Flashcards can also be made out of pictures of textbooks, handouts and other notes. If you hit “Study,” the app shows you each flashcard and you can quiz yourself. When done, users can name the flashcard with a question or statement. A yellow box appears, and you can crop it around a section of notes to be used for the flashcard. Though heavier strokes can help increase readability, at the same time, the app makes the background extremely bright and hard to read.Īfter scanning a page, the app can create a digital flashcard out of it. I went over the faded part with my pencil, and it seemed to fix the problem. The scanning feature was easy to use and best under good lighting, but the scans appeared faded and uneven. ![]() In the left margin, there are triangles for each line that automatically create a digital flashcard if colored in. Each page of the notebook has four barcodes in each corner that help the phone recognize the page when it is scanned. The app had a tutorial that was fairly easy to use. I tested the notebook and app with my AP World History reading notes. These notebooks can be purchased at Target, Walmart or the Five Star website for $3.27. After downloading the Five Star app, users can make digital flashcards and save notes to Google Drive. The Five Star brand of notebook now offers spiral notebooks that can be digitized. ![]()
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