I love the idea of this.<p>I currently take all my notes on cheap A4 squared pads, once it's full I tear of each page into a pile and feed them through my scanner and output as a PDF, it takes about 5 minutes to convert an 80 page A4 pad to PDF.<p>Then I recycle the pad.<p>Apropos of nothing your video on your home page at video <a href="http://modnotebooks.com/" rel="nofollow">http://modnotebooks.com/</a> doesn't display on FF27/Linux though the audio plays, while I was noseying as to why (amazing what you learn by wondering why stuff is broken) I noticed you have an unclosed span tag in your dev.l-footer-copyright.
I love Need/Want's products (SmartBedding, Mod Notebooks, etc), but I <i>really</i> love how open their blog posts are. The AirBnb ones and product ones that list all costs are incredibly informative, since nobody likes to talk about stuff like that.
You can already do this with the Moleskine Smart Notebook, except you don't have to mail your private notebook to a 3rd party company for scanning - you can scan them directly into Evernote with the free Evernote app.<p>tl;dr<p>The exact same thing exists by Moleskine at <a href="http://shop.moleskine.com/en-us/notebooks-journals/evernote/" rel="nofollow">http://shop.moleskine.com/en-us/notebooks-journals/evernote/</a>
One thing I'd say that's missing is the rough amount of time it takes to ship. I was looking at getting one of these for my GF for her birthday (she has a box full of used up notebooks in her garage, so this sounds perfect for her), but without knowing whether or not it would arrive on time, it made me hesitant to get one for her.<p>That said, love the idea and execution otherwise. It's great to get some insight into the beginnings of a product/startup. Even for those of us with experience in earlier-stage companies, unless you've founded it yourself, you don't usually see the beginnings like you've been presenting on your blog.
I never knew Mod was Draft until I read this linked article.
<a href="http://needwant.com/p/cancelled-kickstarter-campaign-funded-project-ourselves/" rel="nofollow">http://needwant.com/p/cancelled-kickstarter-campaign-funded-...</a><p>While reading that I was wondering, and not accusing Mod team here but just a thought, what is stopping people from using Kickstarter this way (to gauge demand) deliberately? Launch a campaign and yank when it is successful to pursue larger profits?
The only problem i see, the personal paper notebook I have, has 'confidential - do not open' written on its front cover. And on a second thought, is scanning a notebook a technological maneuver in our times? I am sorry for a little harsh review, but I was expecting something modern and exciting when I thought these notebooks can be stored in the cloud, at least not manual scanning of pages.
This looks like an excellent product. I think I might try it out. I say "I think" because I wonder whether or not it might be too small for the things I would use it for. Might there be an option for larger (say A4 or US Letter sized) versions in the future?
Off topic, but on a similar note, can anyone recommend a good feed in scanner? Placing pages/photos on the scanner plate seems to be too fiddly to do hundreds at a time, where as if I could just feed them in, either singly or in a stack...
This is a very useful post.<p>Are the notebooks branded? I'm curious about that process but don't see anything mentioned in the post (maybe I'm missing it).