Hacker News loves their note taking apps. I've seen at least a dozen apps this year that have solved the exact same problem in just about the exact same ways.
Am I the only one that still uses pen and paper? To me, there's a certain je ne sais quoi about closing my laptop and putting my phone away, grabbing a pen and my notebook, and brainstorming without technology.
I do most note-taking on paper. Problem with paper is that it's not searchable, as I discovered to my cost trying to find some specific reference details for a job I did last year and am repeating today. My problems are probably more due to ad hoc disorganisation - particularly, sometimes going off-piste and making critical notes on random sheets of paper, away from my main notebooks.
I'd love some kind of e-paper solution, in a notebook form, but I've no idea how it could gracefully and capably mimic the act of turning pages and having a chrono-spacial awareness of where the content in each of those pages lie.
In some far future we'll have paper-thin writeable electronic displays and can literally make a notebook to rule them all, but it'll be a while. And even then, likely very expensive.
This sounds sort of like what Remarkable[0] claims to be (not affiliated). I pre-ordered one because I'm very similar with my notes - I have a ton of ad-hoc notes taken on legal pads floating around.
Request for HN submission: in-depth Remarkable 2 review after months of daily use. Have they got a good data format & transfer story? Does the tech work?
Context: every time Remarkable hits Hacker News I'm intrigued, but I couldn't pull the trigger on a pre-order. I love the idea they're selling.
The customers at the top of the preorder queue for v2 got their tablets about a month ago[1] so the number of people able to write such a review will be limited for the next month or so.
Worth noting there is open source tooling for modding/ssh access to remarkable tablets[2].
[1] https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000264587...