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Buy the Pen and Paper.

Nothing can feel like Pen and Paper without Pen and Paper. I stopped all this and bought $2 5 subject notebook and it relieved my anxiety and give me outlet to express.

Just buy Pen and Paper and stopped looking nostaliga and looking things in other things.



I'm a big fan of pen-and-paper.

But years ago, on a Windows 8 Tablet, I copy/pasted my first handwritten note. That's when I knew that there's a huge future in the UI design of "paper-like" digital written notes.

Copy/paste. "Insert". Zoom. The digital landscape can make superior paper for thinking. It's still not as good as paper, but every year new devices come out and push the limits of UI / paper-like feel.

Eventually, someone will figure it out. Until then, tech-nerds will play with the toy and try to figure out how to make it better.

Artists have largely moved to digital ink / digital drawing styles. Its a bit odd that "thinkers" haven't found a computerized tool for "writing & thinking" yet.

Clearly, Remarkable (I never used this tablet before) is aiming at this niche. I'd probably give it a try, with a cautious degree of pessimism. I still haven't found anything as good as a $20 paper-notebook (Leuchtturm1917) and a $10 pencil (Pentel Kerry). But I await the day when some technology can replicate the experience.


I kick started the first Remarkable and found it indispensable for grad school. It's just not practical to carry around a printout of every paper you've ever read for any of your classes, but a nice eink tablet meant I could read without eye strain and have older sources if I needed them.

I agree it's a poor replacement for writing notes on paper and I paired it with traditional notebooks for notes in class.


I tried some of solutions. But I could not replace. My needs are less. I use for journaling and some study.

I like the feel of paper and pen and I just think it can't be replaced.




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