Dot Grid Junior

These little white boards are handy and cute. They’re a great size to use for jotting notes at your desk. They’re double-sided, with one plain side and one patterned (dot-grid in my case) side. I was pleasantly surprised to see that the dot grid is much more subtle in person than the images in the product listing look.I’ve posted a photo of three boards. The left and middle ones are showing the two types of sides. I used some Expo Vis-a-vis water-erasable markers, a couple of Vis-Aid water-erasable markers, and Tackie water erasable markers. There appears to be a problem with the blue Vis-a-vis as it isn’t staying as solid as the other colors. I wrote on them when I got them but most of the writing faded. I decided to do this test so I cleaned these two boards with alcohol and the test writing hasn’t faded.The board on the right is a board that I used straight out of the packet for testing. Most of the lettering faded in just a few minutes to hours. I would have given these two or three stars but I decided to do fresh tests so I cleaned the left and middle boards with alcohol and the lettering stayed. For testing of the board on the right, I cleaned a blank area on the bottom right with alcohol and wrote on it. The information written there hasn’t faded like most of the writing on the rest of the board.Lesson learned. Clean the boards before using them. I don’t know if water works as well as alcohol does.I’m rating only four stars because these boards are overpriced for what they are. I have bought six 9 x 12 sturdy white boards (one-sided, but a little thicker and sturdier than these) for less than $3 each. These are $6 each. If they weren’t so pricey, I’d probably buy the set with the yellow legal pad on one side but they’re not worth that high a price to me.

I needed these to make small signs for my job, signs that I constantly have to change because of limited space. I wasn’t aware of the included marker being a wet-erase but it makes sense so that it’s not easily erased. It’s so pigmented too so that’s a plus. They’re a great size for what I need. I modified my boards to be able to hang them by binder clips so I had to make holes in them. It was easy to do. The major plus was that if you registered them on their website, you’ll get a free gift and I just got mine and it’s so cute!

Both of mine had dirt trapped between the boards core material and the film that you write on. This means that there are small bubbles around each speck of dirt much like a screen protector placed on a dirty screen. The film also has a few places where it is poorly adhered to the core. For this price I expected better. Also a bit more flexible than I would have guessed but thats a design problem not a manufacturing one.

The pads are a little larger than a regular notebook. They are light, it's easy to write on them and, if you use a wet erase marker, it's easy to erase what you've written with a wet tissue. I got these for my wife, but we ended up buying a larger one for her and I got to keep this one for myself. It makes working from home so much nicer! I used to use a sticky notes app in my computer, and completely underestimated how much more productive you can be when you can turn to the side and write a follow up from a meeting, and see it every time you glance instead of having to switch applications to write it. It's also nice to be able to draw freely. By the way, I am left handed. I was worried I'd be erasing everything as I write it but that hasn't happened at all. I haven't tested dry erase markers though, but I don't think I'll need those at all.

The size of this pad is great and easily fits into my bag like any other notebook would. Being left handed I do run into some smudging during writing but with care I can avoid most accidental smudges.My only complaint is that during erasing, the ink tends to just move around an not stick to the rag, if there was an included cloth that was made to pick up the ink this would absolutely be a five star product!

I keep one in the kitchen for meal planning; and when “life happens,” it’s easy to move around the plan or wipe it away altogether.One in the home gym to remind me what needs to be addressed.

My son uses these for math and physics homework multiple times a week, we ended up buying 2 sets [for 4 total pages], and set of multicolor markers [from another company] since they had erasers on each cap.

They're handy little dry erase boards for my desk/office. I'm just disappointed that "4 Pack" apparently means there are 4 usable sides on ONLY TWO boards.Misleading, and pretty expensive for only 2.