The inspiration for the development came from "children's notebooks that couldn't be fully used."

This time, I would like to talk about the story of a children's school notebook that became the inspiration for developing the SlideNote.

Thirty years ago, when I was in elementary school, each subject had its own specific type of notebook—such as a certain-sized notebook for Japanese language and specific line spacing for math—and we would use those notebooks. This is still the same for children today, with nothing having changed. When I watch my own children, I notice that sometimes, when the semester changes, the required notebooks change as well. And when they advance to the next grade, they often end up switching to a new notebook without even using more than half of the previous one.

Each time, I cut apart the leftover notebooks from the main body with a cutter and repurpose them into memo pads by clipping them together. Perhaps it's because I work in the paper industry, but I often feel that it's wasteful and not environmentally friendly.