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...
Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device
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#42I 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…
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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…
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.
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#46Reminds me of the Alphasmart, it was such a great device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
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#47My 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
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.