Anyone have thoughts or recommendations on something like an e-ink writing tablet? I want to take physical notes, but am bad at tracking pieces of paper.
I've had my eye on something like the Remarkable Series for a few years now, and this might be the time for it.
@mayintoronto I made the switch to full digital years ago as I got tired of storing used notebooks with limited secure destruction options.
First device was the original remarkable. It was super for note taking. It was terrible at opening epubs. That didn’t change… for years.
I wanted a device that could take notes, but also parse EPUBs correctly, or at least have a browser I could hit a remote calibre server with.
I picked up a boox tab ultra c pro. Writing on it Is ~85% as good as the remarkable. Reading epubs is… terrible. They render fine, but there is so little ram on the device it’s hard to use any applications without Android force closing them. Even with a single application running, the device runs out of memory.
You can choose not to have a boox account which should keep your notes local, no guarantees of course.
I don’t know if the newer remarkable has better epub parsing, but og remarkable is where it’s at for a purely writing device.
How is the RM2? If it can render EPUBs and is comparable to RM1 I’ll have to give it a shot.
My RM1 definitely still has epub issues :|. It basically looks like they’re heavily redacted. Giant black rectangles everywhere, despite rendering correctly on all my other devices.
@vince @mayintoronto The RM2 has been great for me. I got it to take notes, but actually use it more for reading books. I like the large format and using the pen to highlight works really well; it snaps to the words.
The biggest downside for me is the reliance on their cloud for syncing documents, although it is easy to simply plug it into my computer and copy files back and forth.
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