RePocket Recycled Presentation Folder (GDP00006)

The folder is expensive, but if you are looking for a very high quality folder that will last (mine lasted two years of every-day use as my only folder before splitting at the fold) and looks professional, this folder will fulfill that role.

Folder is just as pictured/described but whoever "packed" it, just stuck it in the mailer with nothing else to keep it flat so it arrived VERY bent, because it's paper/thin cardboard it can't be fixed it will always look bad. Be advised.

Love these, sturdy and attractive.

Today everybody is identified by their folder. In the old days it was the cut of your jib, the proof in your pudding, the badgers in your hayrick, stuff like that. Today, it's that almighty Folder, the Numero Unio Status Symbol of the New Millennium. Some people rock that Alpha-animal Prada look, others go with a Burberry folder to showcase their prepiliciousness. The Policy Wonk Cadres, to communicate their precision at separating papers into groups, opt for color-coding, assigning Client 1 the Arizona Sunrise colored folder, while Client 2 gets Mint Frappe.Since I am rarely able to gain entry into the kind of store that sells Burberry or Prada, security guards being what they are, which is long on memory, the designer option is not viable. And since I rarely have two clients at once in the first place, and lack coordinational and organization skills extending beyond matching up my shoes in the morning, which doesn't happen all the time anyway, there is no point in investing in a rainbow coalition. So, until now, I have been a plain Avery Beige nonentity in the Folder community. Of course I did make some effort to personalize the look with labels rakishly askew, a scrawled phone number or two, coffee cup rings and little stuck on bits of tuna fish sandwich. Despite my efforts to convince others that the folder showed my "out of the box" creativity and ability to multi-task, most people figured out that I was using it as a placemat.Look, we all know how cut throat the corporate world is, and how much presentation matters. I began to realize it wasn't me who was holding me back. It was the Avery folder. Sure we had history together. Sure it held crucial information like long strings of unidentified numbers, enigmatic messages like "Call W re other thing." or "Note 2 self. Bail money???" But how long could I keep dragging it along when it was dragging me down?And just then, I found the answer. Call it serendipity, maybe it was...but maybe it was something more, something bigger, some guiding Hand that watches over us and...okay, I know a hand can't watch. It's a metaphor. Like, like, well, I don't have another one, but just relax, okay. You want to get to the end of this review as much as I do and if we are going to bicker, it's gonna take that much longer. Anyway, just then, I discovered the RePocket Recycled Presentation Folder (RPCK-STD-EA). This, I thought is it. It's my shtick, my thing. It's all about saving the world, the ECO-thing, get it?Recycled. Hip, with it, and good for the planet. Plus it was free.The best thing about this folder is that it has two pockets! My original folder came with two pockets, but over the years, one and then the other, somehow became loose, clinging by a corner and, in the case of the Right Pocket, eventually disappearing entirely. With two intact pockets, I could keep papers inside the folder, not stuck into my lunchbag or sock (which really is, if you think of it, even more convenient and ecologically sound, but I digress). Anywy, it's an obvious improvement.That cool nubbly brown recycled look is so, so -- intimidating. It just reeks of "Don't you go waving that leather folio thing under my nose, Poopsie, you cow-killing, leather-tanning-chemical-using Troglodyte you." And what can they say? I'm saving the planet. Plus, here is a trick I figured out that will save you time, money and clean ups: When using a folder as a placemat, turn it inside out. Smart, eh. With thinking like that and this new folder, it's Easy Street, here I come.

This IS the nicest paper folder I've every owned, which it should be for the price. That said, I still think it's a little expensive. It also kind of sucks that it came with a big white bar code sticker on the back that absolutely would not come of cleanly. I know that would probably only bother obsessively picky people like me, but at the same time, those are the people who tend to spend $7 on nice-looking folders!

I always carry one or two folders for important work documents and presentations. Since I travel a lot, I need folders that can stand up to some abuse but are also lightweight. The plastic folders I have been using eventually tear and bend, and as they cannot be recycled, they end up in a land fill somewhere. So, I was really interested in finding out if the RePocket Folder would work for me!The RePocket Recycled Presentation Folder is a heavy weight cardboard--much heavier and stiffer than a manila file folder. It is lightweight, and a bit stiff, which helps it to hold its' shape. One big positive for me is that I can attach Post-It Notes to the RePocket Folder, which helps me keep track of "to-do" items plus I can note what is inside the folder. I can't do this with the plastic folders, the Post-It Notes slip and fall off.The RePocket Folder is paper, and after a lot of use and backpack travel, it got a bit worn. However, I don't mind the worn look the way I did with colored folders--the worn look is consistent with using a folder made from recycled materials.The RePocket Folders look professional, and I think are a good choice if you need presentation folders for clients that are involved with or sensitive to ecological and sustainability issues. I plan on buying a few more RePockets, and if they don't last as long as my old plastic ones, will happily recycle and buy more RePockets.

I use this kind of folder primarily for travel. I put all my trip info in a folder, and keep it in my carry-on for easy access. The in and out of the bag puts a lot of wear on folders, which I reuse as many times as I can. (Nothing is greener then reuse.) This folder is thick, stiff, and well made. I expect to get a lot of use out of it.While I see this as a great folder for long-wearing internal use, I wonder about using it as a presentation folder for clients. Unless you are at a eco-event you'll need to point out that it is recycled so that people don't think you were too cheap to buy a more attractive folder. If you are pitching that million-dollar proposal to make your business I would suggest you spring for something more elegant.Will it save the planet? If you are like most people, the fraction of your paper fiber usage that goes into folders like this is minuscule. So this is more a feel-good or show-off product than something that will make a real difference. Unless you buy a lot of these, or buy them with a large order of something else, the packing material to ship them will probably outweigh the recycling advantage of using them.I'm expecting to get a lot of use out of this well-made folder. But using it is not going to save the Greenland icecap. I'll have to cut back somewhere else for that ...