data point: when I got my scribe, I was shocked at how good writing on it felt. It might or might not beat my favorite pen on the best possible paper, but it certainly beat anything less than that. I’ve tried the remarkable, and ipencil-on-ipad and didn’t have this experience. Maybe that’s because the scribe hasn’t seen much use and it will feel worse once it accumulates dirt, but I think Amazon did a really good job with the feel of it.
I also find there’s a difference emotionally between “this note is not optimized for reference and will be a pain in the ass to find later” vs “this note will disappear from history the moment you look away”. Knowing I could find something if I really really needed it frees up my brain from having to retain it.
Based on a focusing-style attempt at understanding why, it seems like there’s a certain sense of pleasure and delight associated with using the Kindle Scribe to write (and read) on, in my mind, and a sense of inelegance and awkwardness associated with writing on paper. Whatever experiences, beliefs, and sense of aesthetics underlies this is probably the driving factor.
I did have access to notebooks and pens and whiteboards when I bought the second Kindle Scribe, but hesitated to use any of them for writing down my thoughts. One thing that comes to mind when I imagine such alternatives is that I fear losing a log of what I thought and wrote, and I didn’t imagine doing so if I wrote it on the Scribe.
oh, one question: if you mostly don’t look at your notes afterwards, why do you need a kindle scribe for them instead of a notebook?
data point: when I got my scribe, I was shocked at how good writing on it felt. It might or might not beat my favorite pen on the best possible paper, but it certainly beat anything less than that. I’ve tried the remarkable, and ipencil-on-ipad and didn’t have this experience. Maybe that’s because the scribe hasn’t seen much use and it will feel worse once it accumulates dirt, but I think Amazon did a really good job with the feel of it.
I also find there’s a difference emotionally between “this note is not optimized for reference and will be a pain in the ass to find later” vs “this note will disappear from history the moment you look away”. Knowing I could find something if I really really needed it frees up my brain from having to retain it.
Based on a focusing-style attempt at understanding why, it seems like there’s a certain sense of pleasure and delight associated with using the Kindle Scribe to write (and read) on, in my mind, and a sense of inelegance and awkwardness associated with writing on paper. Whatever experiences, beliefs, and sense of aesthetics underlies this is probably the driving factor.
I did have access to notebooks and pens and whiteboards when I bought the second Kindle Scribe, but hesitated to use any of them for writing down my thoughts. One thing that comes to mind when I imagine such alternatives is that I fear losing a log of what I thought and wrote, and I didn’t imagine doing so if I wrote it on the Scribe.