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You might like the Rocket Book notebooks. You write with a pen on paper, but then you use the app to scan your notes to email or cloud storage, and then you use

by kej 5y ago

You might like the Rocket Book notebooks. You write with a pen on paper, but then you use the app to scan your notes to email or cloud storage, and then you use a wet cloth to wipe the pages clean. You get digitized notes like an expensive note tablet, but also the feel and replaceability of a plain old notebook. (Despite making variants of this comment multiple times, I have no affiliation with them beyond happy customer.)

omarhaneef 5y ago
Adding the extra step of taking a picture loses a lot of the productivity gain. I think the remarkable tablet is the right balance in 2022. It automatically pushes notes into the cloud.
- tadbit 5y ago
  Did remarkable ever add the MAC address information to their control panel? Or do you still have to collect it from your DHCP server logs?
  - omarhaneef 5y ago
    Not added, still collected: https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002674778-Wi-Fi-settings https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000267477... "Currently, there is no way to display the MAC address on the device. A temporary workaround is to connect to a router you have admin access to and copy the MAC address from the list of connected devices."
    - tadbit 5y ago
      Booooo. Bad form!
- cupofpython 5y ago
  >Adding the extra step of taking a picture loses a lot of the productivity gain. Does it really? I feel like I spend many minutes filling out the page, and a few seconds taking a picture of it. And I still have the paper.. I do not need to take a picture of it right away. I scan my notes with my phone in one batch setting. Remarkable seems very expensive to save me from a 5 minute scanning session after a few hours of writing notes. On top of that it's another thing i have to carry and charge and possibly troubleshoot. honestly, it is kind of silly to me that remarkable tries to sell itself as a place to take notes. It's main selling point to me is that it is a kindle I can take notes on. but I dont read enough to warrant purchasing an ereader
  - omarhaneef 5y ago
    If you are diligent about scanning your notes at regular intervals, then I think you are fortunate to have that capacity. I have every intention of taking a photo of my notes but have not done so. What is your process/ritual? end of the day? end of the week? do you set a trigger or reminder? Do you review them while scanning?
    - cupofpython 5y ago
      I do them in bulk, when i have bits of downtime here and there like waiting for water to boil. I use my phone to scan, and then move the photos I try to be up to date by the end of each month because i also scan receipts and like having them for reference when looking over my spend for month. That said Ive still got some march notes to scan in. I dont review them at all in relation to scanning them. I am making a digital archive of things Ive written down for any reason. If it is not worth archiving then i can delete it later, which i often do. What helped me most with becoming consistent with it was a few key things listed below - and the overall process can be picked up and put down whenever i feel like it without causing chaos 1) Respect the page. when taking the note, I do not assume context will exist for it later. If a stranger were to get a photo dump of all my notes, they have a reasonable chance of organizing them appropriately. Missing context is written on the page first before putting it away, like date, page number, header keywords 2) I scan everything with my phone 3) I move scans from my phone to a single 'destination' folder on my computer / cloud and delete from my phone. 4) Within the destination folder, I subfolder for items of multiple pages. Not categories or dates or anything fancy. Just a very simple grouping of page x of y situations. No thinking involved. Similar to a stapler 5) I move things out of that scan dump folder into my regular digital file organization as needed, if needed. Personally, I have a "Handwritten Notes" folder - and within that folder I have an "Unfiled" folder which is my scan dump location for #3. After Im done with step 3 I move everything up a level out of the "unfiled" folder In general, most of my digital file organization is with shortcuts anyway, so at this point im done with the scanning process. I find getting things scanned is meaningful by itself, and i dont see the need to comingle my handwritten notes with my digital notes. shortcuts used whenever i want both types of things in the same folder
petercooper 5y ago
That's the sort of response I was hoping for - interesting lead, I'll check it out! :) (At first glance, I think one aspect of the OP post that I'd still be missing is the ability to link different parts of notes together with other historical notes, perhaps. That "image map" type feature in the OP link is very compelling.)

by kej 5y ago

omarhaneef 5y ago

Adding the extra step of taking a picture loses a lot of the productivity gain. I think the remarkable tablet is the right balance in 2022. It automatically pushes notes into the cloud.

tadbit 5y ago
Did remarkable ever add the MAC address information to their control panel? Or do you still have to collect it from your DHCP server logs?
- omarhaneef 5y ago
  Not added, still collected: https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002674778-Wi-Fi-settings https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000267477... "Currently, there is no way to display the MAC address on the device. A temporary workaround is to connect to a router you have admin access to and copy the MAC address from the list of connected devices."
  - tadbit 5y ago
    Booooo. Bad form!
cupofpython 5y ago
>Adding the extra step of taking a picture loses a lot of the productivity gain. Does it really? I feel like I spend many minutes filling out the page, and a few seconds taking a picture of it. And I still have the paper.. I do not need to take a picture of it right away. I scan my notes with my phone in one batch setting. Remarkable seems very expensive to save me from a 5 minute scanning session after a few hours of writing notes. On top of that it's another thing i have to carry and charge and possibly troubleshoot. honestly, it is kind of silly to me that remarkable tries to sell itself as a place to take notes. It's main selling point to me is that it is a kindle I can take notes on. but I dont read enough to warrant purchasing an ereader
- omarhaneef 5y ago
  If you are diligent about scanning your notes at regular intervals, then I think you are fortunate to have that capacity. I have every intention of taking a photo of my notes but have not done so. What is your process/ritual? end of the day? end of the week? do you set a trigger or reminder? Do you review them while scanning?
  - cupofpython 5y ago
    I do them in bulk, when i have bits of downtime here and there like waiting for water to boil. I use my phone to scan, and then move the photos I try to be up to date by the end of each month because i also scan receipts and like having them for reference when looking over my spend for month. That said Ive still got some march notes to scan in. I dont review them at all in relation to scanning them. I am making a digital archive of things Ive written down for any reason. If it is not worth archiving then i can delete it later, which i often do. What helped me most with becoming consistent with it was a few key things listed below - and the overall process can be picked up and put down whenever i feel like it without causing chaos 1) Respect the page. when taking the note, I do not assume context will exist for it later. If a stranger were to get a photo dump of all my notes, they have a reasonable chance of organizing them appropriately. Missing context is written on the page first before putting it away, like date, page number, header keywords 2) I scan everything with my phone 3) I move scans from my phone to a single 'destination' folder on my computer / cloud and delete from my phone. 4) Within the destination folder, I subfolder for items of multiple pages. Not categories or dates or anything fancy. Just a very simple grouping of page x of y situations. No thinking involved. Similar to a stapler 5) I move things out of that scan dump folder into my regular digital file organization as needed, if needed. Personally, I have a "Handwritten Notes" folder - and within that folder I have an "Unfiled" folder which is my scan dump location for #3. After Im done with step 3 I move everything up a level out of the "unfiled" folder In general, most of my digital file organization is with shortcuts anyway, so at this point im done with the scanning process. I find getting things scanned is meaningful by itself, and i dont see the need to comingle my handwritten notes with my digital notes. shortcuts used whenever i want both types of things in the same folder

petercooper 5y ago

That's the sort of response I was hoping for - interesting lead, I'll check it out! :) (At first glance, I think one aspect of the OP post that I'd still be missing is the ability to link different parts of notes together with other historical notes, perhaps. That "image map" type feature in the OP link is very compelling.)