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In my daily routine, the thought of printing anything for work seems peculiar. Anything I have to read that's more than 2-3 pages always gets printed. Especia
by dagw 8y ago
In my daily routine, the thought of printing anything for work seems peculiar.
Anything I have to read that's more than 2-3 pages always gets printed. Especially if it's non-trivial.
- reificator 8y agoNot trying to fix what isn't broken, just asking: Have you tried an ereader? I have one that's 8", has a frontlight, and runs full on Android, I use it after my no-tech nighttime threshold and during meetings. But I especially use it for any long form reading I have to do.
- grantc 8y agoMarking up documents with your notes and questions is a critical part of the process. It's ultimately why I end up preferring paper.
- reificator 8y agoI was about to include this in my original question and decided against it, but I don't like marking up the original document. I would much rather have a separate set of notes.
- dagw 8y agoHave you tried an ereader? I have (a cheap Kobo something or other), but it was completely useless for handling most pdf documents and slow enough when navigating a document to get really annoying. It also didn't have any support for annotating or making comments. I've kind of had my eye on this: remarkable.com, but I can't quite bring myself to spend that much. What do you have/recommend?
- reificator 8y agohttps://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/boyue-likebook-mars-e-reader-review https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/boyue-likebo... Still not the perfect device, you can see some criticisms in the review above, but it's my favorite I've seen so far. Forgot to mention it has an SD card slot in additon to 16GB internal storage, compared to, say, the Kindle Voyage which has 2GB and that's it. Still waiting on the dream of color eink monitors, but in the meantime this will do. EDIT: It also has a togglable faster refresh mode, which doesn't clear the screen as well but is much easier to use for scrolling/panning around.
- alkz 8y agowhich ereader is that?
- reificator 8y agoSee my above post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124120 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124120
- noir_lord 8y agoIf I have a particulary gnarly function I didn't write that has no comments (it happens more than I like) I'll print it out and use colored pens. It's a once/twice a week thing but nothing is as effective (I tried using my 2018 ipad/pencil but I just don't really like writing on it, the lack of surface resistance is wrong).
- stephencweiss 8y agoRandom question -- how do you print code? Do you copy the file into a text editor? I've looked a few times and it seems like Sublime and VSCode both don't have a print feature...
- mroche 8y agoI mean, just save the file as .txt and open it in Notepad, TextEdit, or whatever is the default editor in your desktop environment of choice. Should have a print function. Otherwise you could stick it in <pre> / <code> tags in an html file, open it in a browser, and print from there. Lots of options...
- noir_lord 8y agoI paste the function into geany (I’m on Linux) and print from there. Usually I have IntelliJ open and it can print quite nicely.