Five Star Study App

Wow! A company that finally made something useful. I’m impressed and pleasantly surprised. I purchased a Five Star 5 subject notebook from Office Max on clearance today. I wasn’t feeling that great when I bought it so I didn’t noticed all of the little details about the app until later on in the evening. I downloaded the app not expecting much while making flash cards for my biochemistry class. I tested out the app by writing a question on the first page and keying in the answer. Then I placed my physical flash cards on the page and the question was on the front of the virtual card in app and I typed the answer in on the back. OMG! When you can turn biochemistry notes and questions into a fun game it makes a huge difference. This is a blessing for me. I’m going to go back to Office Max and buy as many of these notebooks as I can for my classes for next semester. The app is easy and fun to use. I can’t wait to tell my professor about this because it makes reviewing the material so much fun. I’ll definitely be using the app on my lunch break, for sure. Thank you Five Star.

I downloaded this app when I saw the ad on a five star notebook I got for the school year, and although I was initially very excited, the app was ultimately a disappointment. First off, the app has a lot of potential. The google drive integration is perhaps the strongest feature for me. Additionally, the ability to categorize notes into different subjects is also great. This is all well and good. Then there are the flaws, the biggest of which, in my mind, is the blurriness of the scans. I am very used to scanning documents with my phone, but the scanning quality on the fivestar app is simply abysmal. My handwriting looks washed out and pixelated. Having quality scans is the thing that needs to be fixed most urgently. Then there are minor things, such as the inability to rename scans, and the fact that when you take photos of multiple pages, they are shown as multiple documents as opposed to one, scrolling document. FiveStar, I would highly recommend you take a look at Rocketbook’s app and how that works. The scans are very crisp, and multiple scanned pages get put into one single document. Would love to see this app improve over the next month before school really gets started.

I picked up both the notebook and planner to use for work and I like the concept but the usage feels limited and not very intuitive. I think the planner is newer so maybe Five Star is still working on it, but I wish they had figured it out before I spent money on it lol. The biggest issue I’m having is the planner subjects. I can add subjects to the planner but I can’t figure out how to assign scanned tasks to them. When you scan them in it will premake a planner subject but you can’t just pick an existing subject to assign it to. You also can’t reassign the task to a different subject after the fact. So basically you will forever be creating new subjects every time you make a scan and will eventually have a bunch of useless subject folders. The only features on the tasks are rename subject, change color (which has the same functionality as rename subject), delete, and merge tasks (actually useful). Please fix this so it’s not such a pain to try to use this planner! The tasks also don’t seem to have a copy of the scan to look at while you’re correcting/assigning the task so that you can type out what you actually wrote down, that would help a lot. Also, the notebook and planner don’t share subjects. These two items should work together but they’re totally separate which is a bummer. There is a big potential for a wide ecosystem of products but if they don’t interact then it just becomes tedious to use more than one product at a time. If the developers provide contact info I don’t mind helping with feedback/testing…