I also have paper and pen with me all the time. A lot of people are trying to convince me to go digital—including my son—but I have yet to be convinced that there is a way to improve my workflow. Which is this:
take notes and sketches making use of however much paper is available and being creative in size, positioning and alignment of text. Quickly.
Clearly this doesn’t digitize well. It will be ugly, hard to read and lack all the context that you have in your mind at that time. After all it is adding to your memory not replacing it.
So the obvious and necessary next step is to convert these notes into actually useful longer-term representations like diagrams, summaries, tasks in a task tracker, calendar entries,...
Until someone creates an app that automates at least some of these things while creating the sketches I am usually worse of with a digital solution:
It is not as readily available and always on.
It disincentivizes the next step: “I will convert it later” (at which time you have lost of your memory context)
My minimum requirements are really
always on (incredibly, eink readers typically do not preserve the last page on power off!!)
recognize handwritten text
convert lines into appropriate geometric forms (rectangles, ellipses—in any orientation)
convert text blocks to calendar entries, tickets, mails,...
Maybe there is an app for that but I have yet to find it. It should be there as these things are all solved, right?
ReMarkable solves some of these issues. I am now at the point where I have so many notes written on traditional paper that I do not want more to accumulate more and I cannot efficiently consult them without OCR and search functionality
Thank you. I looked into ReMarkable and it seems very alike to the Boox that I got as a present and that I’m utterly disappointed with (yes really). Can you tell me whether it has
a screensaver mode that just keeps on the screen what was last visible?
an OCR that does not throw the original notes away (the arrangement e.g. in a mindmap)
I also have paper and pen with me all the time. A lot of people are trying to convince me to go digital—including my son—but I have yet to be convinced that there is a way to improve my workflow. Which is this:
take notes and sketches making use of however much paper is available and being creative in size, positioning and alignment of text. Quickly.
Clearly this doesn’t digitize well. It will be ugly, hard to read and lack all the context that you have in your mind at that time. After all it is adding to your memory not replacing it.
So the obvious and necessary next step is to convert these notes into actually useful longer-term representations like diagrams, summaries, tasks in a task tracker, calendar entries,...
Until someone creates an app that automates at least some of these things while creating the sketches I am usually worse of with a digital solution:
It is not as readily available and always on.
It disincentivizes the next step: “I will convert it later” (at which time you have lost of your memory context)
My minimum requirements are really
always on (incredibly, eink readers typically do not preserve the last page on power off!!)
recognize handwritten text
convert lines into appropriate geometric forms (rectangles, ellipses—in any orientation)
convert text blocks to calendar entries, tickets, mails,...
Maybe there is an app for that but I have yet to find it. It should be there as these things are all solved, right?
ReMarkable solves some of these issues. I am now at the point where I have so many notes written on traditional paper that I do not want more to accumulate more and I cannot efficiently consult them without OCR and search functionality
Thank you. I looked into ReMarkable and it seems very alike to the Boox that I got as a present and that I’m utterly disappointed with (yes really). Can you tell me whether it has
a screensaver mode that just keeps on the screen what was last visible?
an OCR that does not throw the original notes away (the arrangement e.g. in a mindmap)
uhh, it goes to sleep after a bit, but brings you back to what you were last doing.
The OCR doesn’t destroy the original
Nope on this
Nope