eInk tablets are the future and confer all the advantages of pen and paper. Perhaps they need to undergo a few more generations of UI improvement, and the eInk company itself needs to have its patents expire so the tech isn't held up, but the experience is real. It's tactile, vibrant, and smooth. Battery life is never an issue, even with wifi.
The advantages of having notes always with you and being able to organize into folders and move sheets and figures around beats paper a thousand times over. Highlighting a figure, dragging it to a better spot, rotating it to an affine angle to give it life, and then resizing it to double size is an earth shattering experience.
Erasing, also, is finally a first class experience in a way it can never be with paper. You can even re-sort lists of items with ease.
If it works for you, great. I've looked at those, and was put off by the price, poor contrast, no color, and fragility of the machine.
If I need to take notes with me, I'll just snap a photo of it with my phone.
My notebook pages are often stained with coffee, and maybe a bit of jam and butter :-) I don't worry about spilling coffee on it, setting a hot mug on it, setting something heavy on it, throwing it in the back of my car. I don't worry about cleaning it (I once ruined an ipod by trying to clean goop off it with an alcohol swab).
Or maybe I'm just old and Led Zeppelin is still my favorite band.
(Scanning a hundred pages or so takes just a few minutes.)
Erasing and dragging are enough to make my reMarkable worth it, but for random brainstorming I need real notebooks that I actually keep on hand. Never been sure why, something about having to physically locate my writing somewhere is huge for me.
I carry both a reMarkable and a Rocketbook with me -- the e-ink tablet makes taking notes super easy, but, the rocketbook is great for sketching and coming up with arch drawings and the like.
I can quickly turn the RocketBook sketches into pdfs and send them to the reMarkable for further processing...but, I love the flexibility between the two, and honestly, the reMarkable fits in the pocket off my RocketBook...so it's not difficult to carry both.
The more that I use reMarkable, the more I fall in love with it, but, I wish I could find a way to make my own templates.
Did a search for Rocketbook and found this. Just wanted to plug it in here, not paid or anything.
I'm taking a college cryptography class, and I started by maintaining notes with LaTeX in Markdown. It didn't help much. The moment I started using a Rocketbook was when I would get things. I've reused my book about 5 times now in conjunction with work and other classes. I'm on my sixth cycle and love it!
As for wasting paper, even in my furious note taking days in college, it didn't amount to that much paper. I don't think the stack after graduating reached a foot high. You'll waste orders of magnitude more paper throwing away junk mail, food packages, etc. Besides, paper recycles easily. Plastic rocketbook pages, nope.
They do, but the accompanying app with RocketBook makes it easier. Each page has customizable bubbles which I can tick off to send the notes to the right destination. It just works which is unusual with most technology.
Additionally, when I was in my undergrad I still went through a lot of paper. I have bad habits when I scribble notes or solve math problems. But with this, it's the only notebook I carry.
I don't have separate notebooks for work, subjects, home, etc.
Just imagining trying to “flip” through a notebook of e-ink pages notes puts me off immediately. Doing so in a kindle, or even a PDF on my computer, is unpleasant. Have they a solution to this in the e-ink notebook?
> he eInk company itself needs to have its patents expire so the tech isn't held up,
Citation needed. Really. Please read my past comments. The speed of electrophoresis is held back by physics. Not patents. If you know of even a theoretical way to achieve stable ink particle position with fast moving ink particles then please link to your publication or research work because it would revolutionize numerous industries, not just displays. Thanks.
eInk tablets are the future and confer all the advantages of pen and paper. Perhaps they need to undergo a few more generations of UI improvement, and the eInk company itself needs to have its patents expire so the tech isn't held up, but the experience is real. It's tactile, vibrant, and smooth. Battery life is never an issue, even with wifi.
The advantages of having notes always with you and being able to organize into folders and move sheets and figures around beats paper a thousand times over. Highlighting a figure, dragging it to a better spot, rotating it to an affine angle to give it life, and then resizing it to double size is an earth shattering experience.
Erasing, also, is finally a first class experience in a way it can never be with paper. You can even re-sort lists of items with ease.
I'll never go back to pen and paper.