The Quiet Rise of E Ink Tablets – ReMarkable 2 vs. Onyx Boox Note Air

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Syncthing

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Snapdrop

No offense, but the article discusses 10" ereaders heavily (that's the screen size of both the reMarkable 2 and the Note Air). There's also the Kobo Elipsa if you'd like something that's totally focused on reading. I've been using a 7.8" Nova 3 myself for a few months now, and it's a dramatic improvement over the 6" Kindle I was using before. I love having a screen that's closer to the size of your average hardcover page, and it's just large enough to make PDFs readable at 100% zoom. It's also very fast, though there's always a bit of perceivable e-ink related lag unless you put an app on the fastest refresh rate. The warm frontlight is also the best I've experienced on an ereader, even better than what I've seen on Kindles. IMO, 10" might be a smidge too large for comfortably reading in bed -- the Note Air might feel a bit too large physically and heavy to hold up if you're reading for long periods of time with one arm holding it up. If that's a common use case for you, you should really consider the Onyx Boox Nova 3, like I have, or maybe the Kobo Forma, which is a bit cheaper and reading-focused. I'm using my Nova 3 completely disconnected from the internet most of the time, though I do occasionally find it useful to fire up Firefox for random browsing (and to sometimes transfer files with https://snapdrop.net/, which is like Apple's Airdrop on your local network). I don't think using the Nova 3, Forma, Elipsa, reMarkable 2, or Note Air offline most or all of the time would be a problem, though from what I can tell reMarkable has invested a lot in sync functionality that you might not necessarily want to turn off. Though the reMarkable probably wouldn't be for you, since it's focused on note-taking, rather than reading.

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40 Hadiths

Try Dropsync [1], you can sync particular folders to your Drobpox. The sync is bidirectional. There is a similar app for Google Drive as well. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ttxapps.dropsync.

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Supernotes

Shameless plug, but if you like note-taking on index cards but are still looking for a slightly more digital solution to the problem, we've[1] built an online note-taking platform that is based around digital markdown note-cards, which is a bit different from most other digital solutions which are usually document or bullet-list based. [1] https://supernotes.app.

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Zim Wiki

Event scheduling I do in "remind calendar" for Linux with a little notify-send. Most everything else in my life organization-wise, I use http://zim-wiki.org for. I just go through them and file them in ideas or todos. (I try to avoid using my phone as much as possible. The rule of thumb there is for, if it's not a real human communicating to me directly, I should try to just use the computer or not use it at all.).

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DuckDuckGo

That is cool; it was discussed on HN, submitted by the creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26790486 I think that is like wearable computing input devices such as the Twiddler keyboard: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=twiddler2&iax=images&ia=images and the DataEgg was intended to hold notes inside it and be a standalone device. Related, the classic MicroWriter AgendA which was a PDA with chording and normal keyboards from the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MicroWriter,_AgendA,_and_CyKey.jpg I think it should be possible to build that pattern into a multitouch web page on a tablet and take chording notes on a flat screen.

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