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If you are not sure which gadget could be the one for you, take also a look at the Supernote[0]. I have been using one (A5X) for the past month with a Lamy EMR and I really really enjoy it. It improves my note taking.

I still have 7 Moleskins on my desk right now, but I haven't written in them for the past two weeks.

The philosophy of the Supernote is not to replace the notebook, but more to improve it. You can create titles which automatically go to a table of content, you have tags, all packaged in a very nice hardware.

The other very nice thing for me, it works totally "offline" if you want. No need to sync with a cloud or whatever. Connect it with USB to your computer, sync your folders like normal folders, done.

[0]: https://supernote.com

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I came here to post a similar comment. I picked up a supernote a few months ago and I really love it. The writing experience is better than a notebook in my opinion and it also does a pretty decent job with PDF reading. In my experience their support is really good as well.

Looks interesting. It also looks like they're planning on opening it up a bit, but people are still waiting for ssh access etc [1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/nhfexf/is_root_a...

You do not have the same level of access as a reMarkable. This is for sure. But they are also very proactive with the end-users, listening a lot to the feedback (they have a dedicated subreddit). So you do not have an open device but a device where your needs are well cared of.

I hope that in the future we will get an SDK to create App which integrate nicely into the device to extend it. As it is for me a single task device, a bit like a cordless phone or my HiFi setup, I do not need it as open as my laptop which has been running Linux for the past 20 years.

How does the latency compare to reMarkable? I noticed that Supernote is based on Android, which I would expect to have a higher level of latency.

Some people say that it has a higher latency but that the coming update (in beta now[0]) is very very close to the reMarkable to the point of being hard to see a difference.

For me personally, on the stable kernel and as a first time user of such e-Ink writing device, I am very satisfied. I also mostly use the Lamy EMR pen because of the button to activate the eraser.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote_beta/

I haven't tried Supernote, but FWIW reMarkable can work totally offline as well.

The OCR on the Supernote is offline. This is something very convenient for me.

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