The Pocket Card Monthly QR Exclusive - November 2025

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November Discount: BOGO STEM Word Magnets!

We’ve never done a BOGO on our STEM-themed word magnets, so we’re limiting this to only the first 20 uses this month (about 500 people ready this every month).

We have 12 sets ranging from Chemistry and Engineering to Academia and Neuroscience. Check out our full collection, add 2 to your cart, and use the code BOGOWORDS to make one of them free! Make sure to choose “No” starter words on the free set because you only need 1 Starter set per 4 magnet sets!

November Resource: The ultimate screenshot and recording tool

I’ve been getting by with the built-in Windows Snipping Tool but last week realized how much that was missing! After some research I found the consensus best free tool is called ShareX. It’s open source, ad-free, and also works on iOS.

It can do basically anything you’ve ever wanted a screen clipping tool to do, and the menu can be daunting. But here are the highlights:

Create your own hotkey to launch it (I map this to an extra mouse button)
Automatically save/upload every clip to a specified folder
- TIP: Put this on a lab computer and auto-upload data readouts to a shared folder
Read text or QR codes from the image and copy that to clipboard (great for research PDFs)
Also can do screen record, GIF creation from recording, or pick HEX color codes from pixels!
- TIP: Use the HEX code picker to keep consistent color coding of data plots between programs and papers

If you combine this with a clipboard manager utility (like the free Ditto app I mentioned last year) it’s extremely powerful and a huge time-saver.

Just for fun: Science Cartoon

You never know who you can trust when the ghouls come out.

Science cartoons by Tom Gauld.

Behind the scenes at Genius Lab Gear

Maternity lab coat featured in ChemistryWorld

We’re grateful that ChemistryWorld is helping us get the word out that a maternity lab coat now exists. Their recent article about our survey and upcoming launch will help get this closer to sustainable. I’m still worried that not enough people know it exists - and won’t even think to search for one. We need to sell at least 200 per year to not lose money on storage costs, so please share the article or our maternity lab coat page to your colleagues who might need one soon! They will be ready to ship in mid-November.

Our lab coats in a Toyota commercial!

One of our customers let us know that her order was really for shooting a commercial, but couldn’t tell us what it was about. This week she finally let us know that it was for the two Toyota commercials below! Hopefully with more TV/media exposure we can change the perception of what a “normal” lab coat looks like - one that’s better fitting, more functional, and actually covers you well.