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i don't since i don't read much and i am fine without the paper feeling mabye

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[โ€“] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a remarkable 2. Had it 2 years, use it daily for taking notes during consults.

I don't use it for reading or any other task. For me it's pretty much just an infinite notepad. For this purpose it's perfect. After 2 years it's cost has reduced to something similar to paper notepads and pens.

These devices are definitely not for everyone. They have a way to go to really fulfil their potential, but I wouldn't be without one.

[โ€“] jtmetcalfe@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Iโ€™ve had my eye on this for a while, Iโ€™m a rigorous notebook and pen note taker but the ability to search through notes would be a huge benefit - do you find the integration with other services to work well? (I would want to export notes to a separate cloud storage platform like OneDrive)

Nah, it doesn't work like that. You couldn't search hand written notes.

I've never tried it but I think the OCR stuff happens remotely and the only output is email. As in, you can email yourself a notebook and it will arrive as text. The whole idea of this seemed so clunky to me it could barely be called a feature.

Similarly with services like onedrive. I think you can upload a notebook to onedrive but not sync with onedrive.

This may have changed, I haven't looked into this for a long time.

My advice would be to think of the device as a paper notepad with infinite pages, nothing more. If that's not worth it for you then don't get one.