Hi everyone.
Today I officially ordered the BrailleNote Evolve. I'm very much looking forward to learning all about it. Not sure when I will get it yet.
Also, I set up a passkey with 1Password for the first time. Now that's an easy way to log into a site!
It is now officially the Easter break. In addition to remembering what the holiday is all about, it will be a good time to relax. Have a good day!
@brian_hartgen I'm curious why you went with the Humanware offering over the BrailleSense? Not trying to start an argument or debate, but I personally preordered the BS7 and am incredibly excited for it. The evolve seems like a very cool device, but I'm not sure how much I'd get out of something like KeySoft as a power user and other than KS it's just a 6+grand screenless laptop with a kinda meh feeling qwery keyboard, although way better than the monarch, mid-level battery life for a windows laptop, and all an all-plastic shell. This is far from just a Humanware thing, I wish these AT companies would make their flagship products, worth 6+ grand, out of metal instead of plastic. Honestly if Humanware had the qwerty ready at csun and not just a dummy model they might've got me, but I don't want to code on a braille keyboard or have 40 cells. Once again not trying to start any arguments here, but I'm curious what you see yourself using your Evolve for? I plan on basically entirely replacing my phone and tablets with the BrailleSense, but everyone uses their notetakers differently.

@TheQuinbox There's a great deal more that I could do with the Evolve. I use the BrailleSense only as a pen and paper substitute for working with notes. I have to use Google Drive to transfer those notes. That's all I do with it. Added to all of that, a lot of the prompts for dialogs etc on the BrailleSense are full of broken English. It doesn't seem to matter how frequently you point out the errors.

With the Evolve, I will be able to have JAWS on there, all my productivity scripts, together with regular apps such as WhatsApp and 1Password that I already know. Even Fast-SM which I am using now. I like the thought of a unit running Windows with an integrated Braille display.
Keysoft doesn't interest me especially. The first thing I'll do is remove NVDA and put JAWS on there.
In summary, for me it was time for a change. I have the BrailleSense system now for six years. I don't like Android apps. Windows is what I know.

@brian_hartgen Totally fair, personal preference and all. I've been a die-hard android user for years, and the thought of a cute little braille tablet with a display, nice keyboard, replaceable battery, and the ability to remotely control my computer through NVDA Remote in addition to my Pixel phone is super attractive to me. Can't say I've seen the bad english anywhere, the only bit I did see on the bs7 was it said "gesture on" and "gesture off" instead of "gestures on" and "gestures off", and that doesn't bug me much, especially since I saw selvas fix stuff like that on the SensePlayer when I first got it. In any case thanks for engaging with me, power users who use braille notetakers outside of the school environment are rare but they always fascinate me because I'm one myself.
@TheQuinbox @brian_hartgen I'm in a similar boat. i love that we're now getting so much choice in the braille space, but I, too, just don't vibe with android, and I saw my housemate have a bad experience with her senseplayer a couple of years ago, it literally just stopped working out of the blue. Nothing worked. pulling battery, connect to USB via a computer, nothing. I intend to use the evolve as my main windows computer replacement, so I'll definitely be putting it through its paces. Oh yeah, and i work for humanware, too, so I might just be a little biased. But if i get the chance to see a braillesense 7? I'll absolutely play!