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The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by clairity »

aidenn0 wrote: post #265
xeromal wrote: post #210

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Anytime I write in print, I'm slow and janky but cursive seems to flow out of my hand. By default, it's not very legible except to me but I actually appreciate how it looks and it's easy to focus it when writing to someone else. Cursive definitely flows much easier than print. My only gripe with writing in general is that writing left handed excludes me from about 92% of pens that will streak under my hand.

Being left handed, you've probably found this, but the Zebra Sarasa Dry is what my left handed daughter uses. It's the only cheapish pen that she likes

yes, in cobalt blue, they're perfect. much better than the pilot g2's that preceded them.

Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by sergiomattei »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #260

I'm always super intrigued by the reMarkable 2, but I think it's because it paints an image of the type of person I think it'd be cool to be, someone who can just write down notes and draw stuff with a really cool, slim device. Someone who carries around moleskines and uses them, instead of just buying so many of them in different shapes and leaving them in a drawer packed to the brim with notebooks. The problem keep…

Wow, I feel as if I wrote this. This is exactly how I feel: I've tried doing this many times and always fail at the note taking thing.

Lately I'm using Notion though for journaling and I really enjoy it. I'm keeping up a journaling streak.

Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by JanisErdmanis »

I own both Remarkable and an the same size android eink tablet which I ordered on kickstarter. I use my remerkable tablet almost everywhere from reading and annotating PDFs to making excessively complex calculations for my PhD and sending them directly to my supervisour. The best part that I can just lay on the bed while I do so ;)

I thought it would be great to read online articles as I read books on remarkable, check email and etc. so I ordered another Android eink tablet. It was a great purchasing mistake which I barely use today.

The morale is that eink screen is very limited with it's refresh rate and lack of color making software as significant as hardware.

Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by moonbug »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #346
georgeecollins wrote: post #319

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That's so funny- that makes me think: 2007 (or so) a manager asked me not to use a Windows Pen Tablet in a meeting because it wasn't respectful. 2011 Every senior manager brings an iPad to meetings and seem to get distracted. 2015 (Tech co) Everybody brings an MacBook Air or a MacBook pro to every meeting 2018 (Entertainment Co) Any electronic device is considered disrespectful in a meeting, especially phones.

You missed 2014 - Business Partners bring in their BlackBerry Passports :->

still using mine.

Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by filmgirlcw »

I bought both of these last year and although the reMarkable 2 has a great story, the software significantly lets it down. The Boox Note Air isn’t quite as good (but it is negligible in my experience) of a “on-paper” writing experience but its software is significantly better if you want to do anything other than take hand-written notes.

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Post by andrei_says_ »

Tho85 wrote: post #14

I bought the Onyx Boox Note Air some months ago, and I must say that I'm really happy with it. Screen refresh is good, there's almost no ghosting in default mode, and refresh rates are acceptable. There are only two downsides about it: The vendor does not respect FOSS and does not publish the sources for their modified Linux kernel, and the device constantly phones home to China. However, the device can be rooted eas…

Any chance to block this via my router for example?

Is there an IP list anywhere?

And, do you know what data they send?

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Post by deckard1 »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #371
samstave wrote: post #272

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Omg, I am the king of moleskin unused notebooks. What was awesome though was when my then 3 year old daughter found one of the moleskins and a pen and did a bunch of scribbles on every 10 pages or so. I truly love that little moleskin. I just recently (last week) bought an outdoor log with graph paper and some other logs.... Your comment makes me want to prove you (myself) wrong and actually use it. I've always been…

I literally have this comic on my wall: https://poorlydrawnstore.com/products/nice-notebook-print I also just bought a super mini and thick notebook for $10 that I haven't used, but was just so cool looking. I still feel like an idiot for buying it, but maybe I will use it someday.

I have a $2 notebook from Muji sitting in my drawer but it's too nice to write in. It's $2!!

Japan is on a whole other level with writing and stationary. Go to a Tokyo Hands or Muji and you'll feel like the type of person that should be writing constantly. I can't imagine we would fetishize writing so much if computers didn't exist.

Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by jamra »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #260

I'm always super intrigued by the reMarkable 2, but I think it's because it paints an image of the type of person I think it'd be cool to be, someone who can just write down notes and draw stuff with a really cool, slim device. Someone who carries around moleskines and uses them, instead of just buying so many of them in different shapes and leaving them in a drawer packed to the brim with notebooks. The problem keep…

There is a book called Visual Thinking by Williemien Brand which goes over drawing basic things. I love it because the author did amazing research into how to draw things with the least effort. I use it to supplement my notes.

The beautiful part of the remarkable 2 is that you can erase and redraw. You can also copy and paste. When making diagrams, the arrows will look identical. Recently, they added zooming in.

I used to take notes on paper. I bought thick, quality paper. I used a nice Japanese made fountain pen. I loved taking notes that way. I still miss parts of it.

When I started, my writing was not very beautiful, but I used a couple of cheats that helped. I write in all caps and I write quite small so that there is some padding above and below my letters. I write slowly so as to have consistent lettering. Even if they are imperfect, they look consistent. The focus should be on letter spacing.

Before covid, people used to come up to my desk and say it was the most beautiful writing they have ever seen. It wasn't, but the techniques do work.

As far as the feel of the notebook. I let my kids play with it. They love it.

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Post by andrei_says_ »

powerapple wrote: post #179
salamandersauce wrote: post #44

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You can install a dictionary on the device, they are just stardict dictionary files...it's literally putting a file in a folder. They also have some available to download although mainly focused on Chinese/Russian. It runs Android. You can just sync things through the cloud provider of your choice. Put the Dropbox, OneDrive, NextCloud etc. app on and just download it from there. Most eReaders don't have upload by ema…

I thinks he is looking for a "kindle" and really should get a Kindle. I actually own a Kindle and a BOOX Nova 3, they are two different products, not interchangeable if you are picky about which is better at doing what. I would have a E-ink tablet, a Kindle and a iPad depending on the tasks.

Anything you’ve installed on the nova3 that you use?

Apart from Kindle, Firefox and safari books online reader?

I’ve found that 3rd party drawing apps don’t work well with the screen.

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Post by ed_elliott_asc »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #260

I'm always super intrigued by the reMarkable 2, but I think it's because it paints an image of the type of person I think it'd be cool to be, someone who can just write down notes and draw stuff with a really cool, slim device. Someone who carries around moleskines and uses them, instead of just buying so many of them in different shapes and leaving them in a drawer packed to the brim with notebooks. The problem keep…

I bought one and work from home and it suits me really well.

I have never been more organised, I used to scribble notes on random bits of paper that would get lost - now o can refer back to meetings weeks ago.

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