Are they worth it? I take a lot of handwritten notes. Hundreds of pages of notes and diagrams scattered all over my house, completely disorganized. Tried to organize by 3-hole punching and placing in binders but it's clunky as frick and the pages rip all the time.
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Frick off I'm genuinely curious if this is good technology or bloat, because it seems worth it to me. My biggest concern is price. I see some going for $300 or $400 and while that *might* be worth it I'm not dropping that cash until I hear non-pozzed opinions
I'm also interested if anyone owns one. To me it's a deal breaker if the interface lags. Ideally it wouldn't run android, or at least contain hardware capable of running it smoothly. I am so fricking tired of tech with bad software
Boox looks interesting but I've seen many complaints about build quality and atrocious customer service. The root cause seems to be pressure on the display from the internals. It's a shame because I'm also looking for an e-ink tablet.
i own one. i only recommend it for people who are terminal paper users like myself, yet despise the volume of paper they generate.
drawing and writing is smooth. i hated having a stack of notebooks (personal, work, project, project, project) and deciding which to have with me and hating that unless i wanted to devote a week to scanning, once the book is filled, the data is gone. so.. i decided to try one of these out and i like it. so, i've stuck with it for about a year now.
it's an e-ink screen so things like tapping back to your notebook list can take a moment, but i wouldn't say it's "unresponsive". 95% of my use with it is not interacting with its UI. that last 5% is mostly me swiping down "recent notebooks" from the top to move between them, which takes less than 1 second.
the writing/drawing feels totally natural imo, or i just can't tell. good enough for me.
i don't frick with its cloud sync or whatever, i just back it up over USB periodically. they give you the root password in the settings. you can SSH in and do whatever you want to it. i think that's kind of nice.
my reasons for disliking it are few, but are mostly centered around not liking having a new tech dependency, and its cost. but.. it's been worth it i think.
i don't do the type folio shit or use it for text at all. i have the "pro" pen for the eraser and i'm glad i got it, but it's not necessary and it's too expensive for just that feature imo.
um, i guess, ask any questions and i'll answer to the best of my ability.
What brand?
remarkable (2)
a bit after buying i saw several more alternate options and had a twinge of regret for not doing a bit more comparison shopping... but i have nonetheless generally enjoyed it.
What would you have ended up with had you done the comparison shopping first?
i'm not sure. i saw a feature matrix of several other similar eink tablets after i bought the remarkable but also after i had already decided i liked it. i specifically didn't look too hard, since i don't want to allow the chance for consoooomerbrain to take over and demand i get another and somehow decide i'm unhappy with what i was happy with 10 minutes ago.
imo, kind of ass. i prefer my ancient rooted kindle for that. i tried it but i didn't like it. it does let you draw over anything in an ebook though if you're into that kind of thing for making notes in margins. might be cool for textbooks maybe?
How is it for reading ebooks?
How long does the battery last? How often do you charge it?
i just plug it in every night but i've had it last 2 or so days before it gets angry at me. i've been a little miffed when i forget to plug it in and it gets low... but my routine of plugging all my stuff in generally keeps it at bay. i'll note that i disabled all power saving or auto sleep systems, because i want it 'on' and fully visible and fully interactive at all times unless i specifically turn it off, since i like it just sitting there while i'm working ready for use like paper.
IIRC Remarkable tablets are hackable, but I don't know much about it.
Don't. You start with one, then you feel the urge to buy more. Just having one feels to restrictive, with slow terrible UIs.
Why is having just one restrictive?
Having multiple means you can more easily condense notes, resulting in better memorization and reflection, instead of having endless pages that rot in the bad UI. It's also much more comfortable, to bring up an old note and having it next to the one you write on.
It depends on your work environment, but I work better with multiple and it becomes more organized, and the information is not hidden from view.
It is worth it, especially the larger ones. I have a kindle scribe that I use almost exclusively for reading but the writing in it is phenomenal and I was blown away by the quality of the display. A friend does more notes and has a remarkable, which I don't believe uses android, which could be a plus. Otherwise if you dont mind android, I suppose boox nid with the vibraniam tech is fine
The display is so slow on my nova 3 it's actually faster writing in a notebook, taking a photo and OCRing it than using the built in writing system. You also get the benefit of two copies with one being physical already.
It's fine for reading books though I like having my full library to read on planes or before bed. UI is clunky so I use koreader as my main navigator. Also boox has data harvesting issues so I leave wifi off 24/7 and dump content over usb.
I have had a reMarkable since grad school. In my opinion, totally worth it. I used to have a stack of scratch paper on my desk, some used some new, but don't need that anymore. I've also started putting all my textbooks and papers onto it, which means the papers and the notes I take on them are synced across all my devices. The writing aspect of the interface is instant, but the display does occasionally need a full refresh, and the UI isn't particularly fast. But I've found that I spend most of the time writing and reading, so the UI speed doesn't get in the way.
Most of the time in stem classes I see people using iPads or similar tablets for notes. How does the experience compare to e-ink? Which is better? Obviously the tablets might be better if you color code, so that's 1 use case.
Is it bad that I don't like having white bezels on the Remarkable? Any idea when they're coming out with version 3?
>is it bad that I have visual preferences for my document viewer?
Have some confidence in your opinions and quit being homosexual.
It's still too disconnected from the real world for me. Might sound autistic but the technological barrier is still too high. My brain realizes it's interacting with technology and I instantly focus on that instead of just what I actually wanted to write down. Nothing can beat paper. The smell, the feel.
Yes it can save 398399840598 notes but realistically I'm not looking at 95% of my notes again anyway, it's just a way to brain dump. And I always keep the important notes. Yes, I can lose them, my house can burn down, and on a tablet they are tripled backed up to the cloud, but that's just a risk I'm living with.
so you're saying you're too biased to give an honest opinion on the tech? Thanks for the link to your blog I guess
I'm not too biased. I actually tried it. Just don't like it, simple as
He has a point. This shit is stupid. You can use one of those electric drawing pads on aliexpress and you don't have to worry about an OS or charging it basically ever.
this was my problem with most note-taking systems too, tried using tablets and laptops with pen screens and all kinds of shit... but the eink tablet tricks me enough to work i guess. otherwise i'm with you. paper is too special.
>Tried to organize by 3-hole punching and placing in binders but it's clunky as frick and the pages rip all the time.
use reinforced paper
thats what i always did back in high school when i took notes on paper
e-ink is based, because it doesn't flicker. OLED displays flicker a lot and give you gay thoughts and homosexual urges
An ipad mini is all you need
>e-reader size
>extremely snappy
>crisp display
>can markup docs without issue
>supports pdfs without issue
>actually works as a notepad replacement
>almost 1 week battery life if you turn off every setting (and run it like an e-reader)
>no hardware qc issues
e-ink is a novelty, and frankly the modern displays are even less like paper then they were originally. the only real reason you would want one is if you need multiple weeks of battery life
LCD writing pad
I love mine, helps me keep track of things a lot better than with paper. Note taking on it feels really good, but if you are a heavy writer you can go through the pen tips pretty fast. Their official tips feel the best but lots of aftermarket ones last longer because they provide less of that natural friction feel. I hacked mine and run a rmfakecloud instance. It's nice to have all of my documents stored on my server instead of theirs, but other than that there aren't to many reasons to hack it (except maybe koreader). ddvk hacks are nice too, but I think if I was on version 3 of their os I wouldn't care as it seems a bit better by default (you have too be on os version 2 it jailbreak iirc). Jailbreaking is super easy and remarkable makes it pretty easy to rollback to previous versions of the os.