There’s a simple comfort in the tactile sensation of putting a functioning pen to real-life paper and jotting down notes and other thoughts for safe keeping.

Try as they might, tech giants and their virtual notepad answers have never quite come up with a lock-it-down way for digitizing the inspiration of grabbing a pen or pencil, opening a blank page and allowing your thoughts to spill out.

Until now. The Rocketbook Wave is a brilliant synthesis of the physical and digital worlds, a new age idea you can check out for yourself for $19.99, 25 percent off its retail price.

The process is simple: Just grab a Pilot FriXion erasable gel pen, flip open your Rocketbook Wave notebook to an open page…and write. Write, draw, doodle, whatever. When you’re finished, tech takes the wheel, allowing you to instantly scan, enhance and export your note page to your preferred cloud storage space. You can even assign notes to various places, shipping individual pages to your Dropbox, Google Docs, Evernote or other favorite locations.

When your Rocketbook Wave is full…well, it’s not really full, just waiting for its resurrection. The notebook and the gel are heat-sensitive, so just pop it in the microwave for a minute or so and it comes out with clean, empty pages, all ready for reuse.

It’s old-school note-taking with all the advantages of 21st century innovation — and it needs to be seen to truly grasp the coolness. Usually $27, you can get the Rocketbook Wave now for only $19.99 with this limited time offer.