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I have an RM1 and RM2 and love the device. My kid has been doing remote learning during the pandemic and using my RM1 for her school work. Wrote some scripts t
by agentultra 5y ago
I have an RM1 and RM2 and love the device.
My kid has been doing remote learning during the pandemic and using my RM1 for her school work. Wrote some scripts that sync the handouts her teacher posts online to the RM1 and she can work on them as if she was drawing on paper handouts like she would in school. This is much better than what the teachers were trying to teach her to do: using Adobe's PDF reader and marking up the PDFs using all those menus and buttons and typing things in.
I enjoy writing long-form especially when I need to think. I find that I get a lot of subtle anxiety and distraction using a modern computer these days that I can't just sit and think deeply about a problem anymore while using one. Instead I can take the RM2 to a quiet place, take my notes, and I can use the transcribe features to email myself plain text later or send a copy of individual pages where I've scribbled diagrams, etc. I then refine and edit my thoughts down later on a computer.
I want to be able to do more of my computing this way to be honest. Document-oriented, using long-form writing, being able to step away into different physical spaces without missing anything.
Overall though I am really happy with my RM2. It doesn't replace my paper journals... I still prefer those for longevity/archiving -- but it does great for ephemeral notes, books, marking up papers, etc. It's great for capturing the seed of ideas and letting me work without distractions.