Whitelines paper/app - expensive gimmick or totally worth it?

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DD is starting Sixth Form and thinking about how to organise her notes etc. She is asking for relatively expensive Whitelines branded paper from Sweden, which can be cleanly scanned by an accompanying free app, removing the "distracting" (?) lines as it does so.

I think it looks like nice quality paper, but apart from removing the lines, I don't think the app does do any more than other free scanning apps like Adobe Scan, Microsoft Office Scan, Google Drive Scan, etc. In fact it may do less, because I don't think it does Optical Character Recognition (correct me if I'm wrong). I'm also thinking that the extra cost of the paper will be significant over the lifetime of her courses, not to mention the hassle of having to order it online (because it's only available in specialist stores).

But am I missing something?

Does she have a job/allowance? If so, can she pay the difference between the cost of normal paper and this stuff?

If she has an iPad get notability and the pencil.

Or if it’s another type of tablet, get either Evernote or one note (she should get one note via her school) and write direct on the tablet?

Also I think it’s campus notepaper has the scan thing but why can’t she just use the office lens app to scan whatever she wants anyway?

Notability is great and it’s about a tenner by the way. It’s what I use and my teen used for notes all through Her A levels and she’s going to carry on into uni. It does the handwriting recognition and you can write as you record a lecture and it puts the notes in the right place. Can also add drawings and doodles and stuff.

GetTheGoodLookingGuy, no, not yet, and even if she did I want to encourage her to think these sort of decisions through.

But it's not parenting advice I'm after - just opinions on the product.

She has an Android phone and a Chromebook (which doesn't have a touch sensitive screen).

I’d honestly be sore tempted to get a second hand tablet - the paper you’ll have to be buying all the time and the cost will mount Up

What is the advantage of Evernote over more generic products like Google Docs and MS Office? Does it do anything better?

I only ever used the free version.

I prefer notability on my iPad. It’s genuinely the best tenner I ever spent. It changed my life. (I’m not long graduated. I used it at uni. I have all my pdfs in it and all my notes and they are all searchable)

But if she wants expensive paper, I’d work out the difference between it and pukka or campus and make her pay the difference.

Also she’s responsible for ordering it