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Re: Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device

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I bought a Freewrite Alpha last summer and which I'd gotten something like this instead. The Alpha's great in many ways, but has just enough aggravation that it makes me resent the thing a little: * I have a model without a backlight, and the screen's all but invisible unless you're under a light. Wake up and think of something you want to write? Either turn on the lights, or hope it actually turned on when you hit t…

There's one with a keyboard on igg now: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pomera-full-suite-typewri...

That looks beautiful but it’s a bit spendy. Not overpriced, but spendy. If the software is nice, though, that’d be almost exactly what I’d want.

Re: Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device

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I bought a Freewrite Alpha last summer and which I'd gotten something like this instead. The Alpha's great in many ways, but has just enough aggravation that it makes me resent the thing a little: * I have a model without a backlight, and the screen's all but invisible unless you're under a light. Wake up and think of something you want to write? Either turn on the lights, or hope it actually turned on when you hit t…

Got an AlphaSmart 2000 off ebay. It cost It is so easy to use, and reliable as heck.

Re: Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device

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Lovely! I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.

I'm assuming this is a bit facetious, that said, I think it is worth exploring. Yes, you can use short hand to learn to write words faster, such that you may be surprised at how fast people can actually write. Certainly, you'd be surprised at how slow some people type. Especially when thinking. More pertinent for notebooks, though, is how unstructured it can be. Learning to use the space of a page is a big thing that…

Yeah.. I learned gregg short hand. Took years, but I love it.. I can write rather fast now, and for the most part I'm the only one who can read it. I do slip into standard writing.. It's a blend really.

What I really like about it though, is that there's no spell check or grammar. I suck at both, and the red and green lines of word and others is distracting.

I mean margret attwod says get a pencil and a notepad.. I'll trust her.

Re: Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device

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Lovely! I envy your ability to handwrite my thoughts as quickly as I can type them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand

Gregg is easiest to learn. You can integrate it slowly..

Re: Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device

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Reminds me of the Alphasmart, it was such a great device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart

Was? You can easily buy one now. There are a lot of them for sale. I got one a few years back. They're great.. and that it uses AA batteries is a huge plus.

Re: Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device

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My take on this was to get a boxy old ThinkPad that no longer functioned and fit it with Raspberry Pi, e-ink and LCD. https://github.com/wdbm/cyberDeck_2022

New chrome book would do.. No setup required, they work offline out of the box, and are really cheap.

I got one for my kid a few weeks ago. She uses google docs offline and sync's up when she comes back online.

Way easier to get going.

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