What Angela From ‘The Office’ Gets Done With Rocketbook

Angela Kinsey, who played Angela Martin on The Office, is a busy lady balancing taking care of kids, writing New York Times bestselling books, and recording new episodes of her hit podcast Office Ladies. For keeping track of all of those tasks and more, she uses her Rocketbook to make it easy and we got the chance to speak to her about all of those things.

The Rocketbook is a cloud-connected smart notebook and app combination, and for the past several months she’s been a brand ambassador for the company, and alongside her Office co-star Brian Baumgartner, she starred in a series of commercials for them. They place the two of them back in a similar environment to where they first met each other and are a fun wink to the audience that ever so subtly takes the good feelings fans of the Office have about the show and their characters and tries to lend it to a paper product with a digital component. How did they do? Let’s take a look.

In the first commercial Brian walks into screen and asks Angela “where’s the paper?” and she tells him about how they use Rocketbook reusable notebooks now and we just “write, scan, and reuse”. While cheesy holiday music is playing Brian gets a huge grin on his face and says “reusable” then the logo of a hand wiping off the words “write, scan, and reuse” from a notebook plays.

Grade: A – Friendly reconizable characters sell us on a new product

Their second commercial together is a not-so-subtle reference to the Office as Brian approaches Angela with an armful of notebooks and they fall out of his hands in an homage to Brian’s famous chili disaster moment from the Office. Angela tells him to reorganize better with Rocketbook because it scans to the cloud. Again, Brian turns to the camera and says “clouds”.

Grade: A – At only 15 seconds these ads are incredibly effective and fun

The third is the weakest of the bunch so far with a very strange reveal. Brian walks into the now familiar frame and asks Angela “what’s that?” and she tells him all about the Rocketbook we know and love. He responds “cool, but I meant that” pointing to a plate of doughnuts. She tells him “those are doughnuts” and he gleefully leans over the table to grab one

Grade: C – The formula falters here a bit as it doesn’t riff from the Office so much as an episode of The Simpsons turning Brian into a Homer Simpson type character who is enchanted by the sight of doughnuts.

They went back to the beginning! The formula is upended a bit here as Brian approaches Angela telling her about the Rocketbook that his secret Santa got him. He asks her what she got and she says in a direct reference to Brian’s character from The Office, “Who gives chili?” and utilizes her famous Angela from The Office smirk while Brian gives back an “aww shucks I don’t know” grin.

Grade: A+ – The best of the bunch that hearkens back to a classic The Office moment while allowing both actors to mug for the camera. I love it!

In speaking with Angela for this story, I can confirm that she is exactly as charming and friendly as she is on Office Ladies and was a joy to speak with about why she loves Rocketbook, talking about The Office, working with Brian again, and writing a bestselling book!

On working with Brian in Commercials for Rocketbook

Angela Kinsey: Brian and I were so excited to get to work together again and just play. We love the rocketbook products! I have their notepad and I use it daily to jot down my to do list for the day and I can just erase it and reuse it and my kids use it too. The added bonus was seeing one of my dearest friends. And getting to play around with him back in an office space. I loved all of them, but the last one we shot felt like going home to the office for me because I get to do a classic Angela look.

On her children growing up on the show

I was pregnant with my daughter during season 4. You can see us hiding it in the Dinner Party episode. I walk in with Andy and we’re holding a flower bouquet because I was 8 months pregnant and that was to cover my belly. I feel like my daughter grew up on set. Oscar used to come over and play dolls with her.

About the success of the Office Ladies

We reach out to the cast and crew of The Office and find every detail we can find and rewatch the show together. We watch it in order and we hadn’t seen some of them since they aired and its been really fun to rewatch it. The fans response has been wonderful.

On how Rocketbook helps her plan

I like to write everything down. I know some people keep things on a computer. My brain works by jotting things down. I used to have stacks of notecards, but with rocketbook it connects to an app on your phone that uploads everything and its been a combo platter for me. I can still have my old school way of doing things mixed with putting it in a dropbox and sharing it. I’ve really enjoyed all my rocketbook stuff.

On New Projects

Jenna and I were cleaning and realized we had thousands of photos from our time on the Office and we wanted to preserve and share our memories of the show, so we wrote a book! It’s called Office BFF’s from Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey. It was a New York Times best seller for a whole month.

On Rocketbook Tips

The Rocketbook products are great and really affordable and aren’t just something you’ll only use once. I think its a fun product and the Rocketbook Mini I love is under 20 dollars. I think its a great holiday gift.

Can My Mom Use It?

If I can use it your mom can use it I promise!

Thanks Angela!

Note: I received a Rocketbook to test for this story and I love it! The way it works is that you’re writing on real paper with a real eraseable pen and you upload what you wrote down by using the Rocketbook app. When you hold the app over something written on a page it automatically takes a picture of that page when it recognizes the Rocketbook symbol on the bottom left. Uploading of the picture will go by default to the email address you provided and there are numerous tabs provided to send to several online services like GoogleGOOG
and Dropbox as well. Additionally if you write neatly, OCR technology can your handwriting into text if that option is selected. All in all, its a slick and usable little package provided you don’t lose the pen and the cloth provided.