reMarkable Paper Tablet

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 23, 2017 at 01:47 PM

Bill mentioned the following in the Things 3 thread:

> But then, I am an inveterate CRIMPer - I’ve just managed to (finally) persuade myself out of “investing” in the gorgeous but as yet unproven reMarkable “paper tablet”, a new device that uses eInk not just for reading, but for notes and sketching too (for interested CRIMPers, more details here: https://getremarkable.com). No doubt I’ll have to re-dissuade myself once it’s actually launched…

Being an inveterate CRIMPer myself, I had to follow the link. The reMarkable Paper Tablet does look impressive, but—unless I missed it somewhere—it doesn’t do optical character recognition of your hand-written notes. Without that, it seems to me that it really isn’t any better than actual paper notebooks for managing your notes. The main advantage of keeping your notes digitally is in having indexing and search functions. Maybe it isn’t possible to have accurate OCR on all the possible variations of handwriting, but without that, I can easily resist spending $500-800 on this unit, no matter how impressive it is.

Any other thoughts about this?

Steve Z.