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I take extremely detailed hierarchical notes all day, using software similar to org mode. Enough that it isn't feasible to use handwriting. But when it comes to
by emerged 6y ago
I take extremely detailed hierarchical notes all day, using software similar to org mode. Enough that it isn't feasible to use handwriting. But when it comes to working out a particularly difficult problem, there's no substitute for pen and paper IMO. I'd really like for the two to be better integrated, but writing with a stylus doesn't feel good to me.
- cgriswald 6y agoI took notes on an iPad Pro for a semester in college. It worked well and there were some advantages. Infinitely expanding pages, moving notes around, pages only exist when they’re necessary, etc. But the thing that I missed most was the feel of pencil on paper. A stylus sliding around glass felt... bad and I was always distracted by it.
- grugagag 6y agoThis could be aleviates by adding a special matte screen protector that gives pen and paper feel
- Aeolun 6y agoBut the screen still glows. Paper is not supposed to glow. At least that’s my entirely emotional argument against writing on an iPad.
- grugagag 6y agoYes but at least you don’t get the stylus sliding on glass feeling, the feedback is closer to but not exactly like pen and papet. It’s a tradeoff
- CharlesW 6y ago> But the thing that I missed most was the feel of pencil on paper. Has anyone tried Paperlike? I'm interested in the "feel" and how it affects display quality. https://paperlike.com/ https://paperlike.com/
- dchuk 6y agoI have a cheap matte screen protector from Amazon on my iPad Pro, and it works fantastically. Completely changes the writing experience
- mindri0t 6y agoI have the first iteration of it and it is very very nice in terms of feel but I found it impacted screen quality more than I could tolerate. I believe this has improved in later versions and I’m somewhat tempted to try one of the current ones. I was really torn when I took it off, it does feel like paper and it even feels nicer with your hands not just the pencil, at the time it really damaged colour accuracy and also made the screen look like it was composed of rainbow crystals, it had a tiny prism effect on every element of the matte surface.
- CharlesW 6y agoThanks for sharing your experience with it!