I’ve had a #remarkable2 e-ink tablet for a week (second-hand from the good @nicosomb who sold it to me)
I use it all day long, every day, as a companion to my computer. It’s much better than filling up paper books which make it hard to retrieve previous notes in a timely manner or at all.
I can share my notes (converted to typed text or not), re-use parts of them elsewhere, copy & paste, scale, rotate, I can type, or draw.
It lacks straight lines and shapes though! But it fosters creativity.
@ndw I was totally aware of it (and other e-ink products generally) but had not considered it for myself (until a friend sold his) because I already own an iPad and I thought it would be a waste of coin/material and frivolous.
BUT, it's not. It's really convenient and quite portable too (but works only in daylight of course).
Directories (including nested sub-directories) and labels make it a useful and versatile "pensieve".
The #remarkable2 marketing argument "distraction free" is also true.
@koalie Is the surface pleasant to write on? I like my tablet, but I don't use it for note taking as much as I thought I might because frankly it's not very pleasant to write on, even with a rubber tip on the stylus.
@ndw it's pleasant to write on. For the first day or two, it was as though I was writing with a pencil on something that isn't quite the paper I'm used to, but more like some thicker cardboard.
It's not at all compared to the friction-less glass surface of the iPad which for me has always felt weird and too slippery.
@koalie@nicosomb I love my remarkable - I have so many different notebooks and love being able to download files f- agendas & minutes for meetings, PDFs for class...also many folders, so many topics, I don't have to cart around a stack of paper. It's better than I ever thought it could be and I know I haven't fully tapped into its capabilities.
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