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IA Writer in Paper
- blueflow 3y agoI thought the pictures were blank white. Which kind of person photographs a pure white product on a pure white background?
- theyinwhy 3y agoPhotographer is the word you are looking for.
- andrei_says_ 3y agoThis is witty, true, a direct response, and a hat tip to photography nerds like me. Much appreciation!
- shrubble 3y agoSeems a bit "twee" or whatever the word is, is it embossed into the paper or just very faint lines? And why show only Japanese handwriting when you are putatively, willing to sell it to people who will write in English?
- cianmm 3y agoThey've got a Tokyo office so they're probably interested selling to that market too
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoMy experience is that no demographic cares about paper quality like the Japanese.
- DiabloD3 3y agoGiven how many extremely high quality, end game, niche items I've ended up buying from Japanese companies, I'd agree.
- tkgally 3y agoMine as well—and not only paper but writing implements as well. I don’t use pens or pencils much anymore, but I still get a kick out of browsing and trying out the vast selection in large stationery stores in Japan. (I live in Yokohama.) Japanese book printing and binding have long been top-level, too. I used to help edit dictionaries for Japanese publishers, and I ended up collecting several hundred paper dictionaries from around the world. The Japanese dictionaries had the clearest printing, the thinnest and most opaque paper, and the strongest and most flexible bindings.
- tiltowait 3y agoFrom my (very brief) foray looking into the "high-end penmanship" hobby, Japanese notebooks seem to be some of the most highly regarded, so it makes sense to me.
- adaboese 3y agoMisread as "AI writer". I thought it is another competitor
- Obscurity4340 3y agoDoes everyone experience episodic, like, dyslexia when they try to read thru and think too fast? I always had this when test-taking as a student.
- GaggiX 3y agoYeah it happens to everyone, I read "AI winter" in the title
- ordinaryradical 3y agoI love iA Writer and will shill it till I die. One of the few pieces of software to genuinely change my professional and artistic life. I screamed for a second when I thought this was them releasing an eink device. Something like Remarkable, that would be a day one buy for me. I tried to get this hacked together with one of those Chinese Android eink tablets, but the save/sync was unreliable (only time I’ve ever lost writing) and the overall experience was poor compared to my iPad. But my soul pants for iA Writer on eink.
- seeknotfind 3y agoI love it too :) so many good memories writing, staring at that perfect blue cursor blinking. The markdown renderer is beautiful too because it still renders a lot of the special characters. Header hashtags off to the left.
- Caddickbrown 3y agoHave you tried something like Obsidian? How would you compare it?
- samsolomon 3y agoNot who you asked, but I like and own both, but have found myself moving to Obsidian more and more. I'm not entirely sure why. IA writer now has document linking and I love the typography. I like the editor better. I think there is something that makes file organization easier in Obsidian. I have a plugin that creates a new note for each given week. And it feels easier to navigate a bunch of files without the descriptions/first few lines of the doc. EDIT: And this thread has encouraged me to second guess myself about some of these things and there's a setting to remove descriptions in the library. Maybe I'll try picking IA Writer back up!
- kstrauser 3y agoFor me, they're so different that it's hard to compare them. Obsidian is a great tool for linking, searching, querying, and visualizing sets of thoughts. It happens to have a text editor, but that's not the brilliant part about it. Obsidian's editor feels to me like a method to get data into the note database. Also, Electron. iA Writer is a one the best text editors I've ever touched. It happens to have tools for linking and searching notes, but that's not the brilliant part. Writer's data management feels to me like methods to navigate around to the note I want to writing. Also, it's a "Mac-assed Mac app", looks and feels exactly like it belongs on my desktop, plays nicely with all other Mac apps, and couldn't be faster or more responsive if it were hand-coded in assembler. If I want to store and search notes, I'd probably pick Obsidian (although I'm currently using Bear Notes for that). If I want the best writing environment I know of, I'll reach for iA Writer every time.
- mrtesthah 3y agoIs it acid-free / archival grade paper?
- trinsic2 3y agoIm not quite sure what this is. Its it just a piece of software, an e-ink reader or paper? They needed to set up what this is before talking about its features
- seeknotfind 3y agoI hope everyone is signing up for the newsletter so they release this. I think I would pay $50 as a one-time gimmick, because I genuinely love iA Writer. Though, if I was to use this as a normal product and buy multiple times, I think I'd be looking for a $20 price range.
- vishkk 3y agoOne of my favorite products -- been using it for note-taking, journaling, and miscellaneous stuff for almost a decade now!
- CharlesW 3y agoThis is a new, unreleased product, iAノートブック (iA Notebook).
- rpastuszak 3y agoI think the Ensō[*] version of this would be a single piece of paper and a pen filled with ink which disappears after 10-15 seconds. Does anyone know if such ink exists or if there's a way of making one cheaply/safely? I want to build prototype and record a video. (* Ensō is a stream of consciousness writing app I built some time ago, hence my very clever idea: https://enso.sonnet.io https://enso.sonnet.io)
- dbtc 3y agoI don't know about on paper, but I have seen (videos of) people writing (chinese) calligraphy on pavements with water and big brushes, which fades in a few minutes as it dries.
- syncbehind 3y agoGet yourself a buddha board :) you can basically do something like that.
- CharlesW 3y agoFor anyone looking for a "dark mode" solution: https://www.jetpens.com/Etranger-di-Costarica-Blanc-de-Noirs-Black-Paper-Notebook-B6/pd/14310 https://www.jetpens.com/Etranger-di-Costarica-Blanc-de-Noirs...
- syncbehind 3y agoWhat ink do you use with this? I find a lot of "bright" inks to not be opaque enough.
- starkparker 3y agoMetallic silver or white gel ink works well. I like silver for being a little more reflective in low light. Or white-out pens, unironically.
- wffurr 3y agoThe product pics include one with a lot of ink names showing examples: https://static2.jetpens.com/images/a/000/073/73994.jpg?ba=middle%2Ccenter&balph=3&blend64=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5qZXRwZW5zLmNvbS9pbWFnZXMvYXNzZXRzL3dhdGVybWFyazIucG5n&bm=difference&bs=inherit&mark64=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5qZXRwZW5zLmNvbS9pbWFnZXMvYXNzZXRzL3dhdGVybWFyazEucG5n&markalign=top%2Cright&markalpha=30&markscale=16&q=90&w=600&s=6ebcdd4cba8b7b435da2910e50725d18 https://static2.jetpens.com/images/a/000/073/73994.jpg?ba=mi...
- loughnane 3y agoI didn’t know anything about ia writer before this post. I love it’s specs but I feel I’m halfway to setting up something similar—and more flexible—in vim. I hadn’t spent more than 5m in vim a year ago. Now it’s like a superpower for writing. I’ve got ProseMode that makes it look pretty, custom linting rules through Vale (eg it flags if I try to say ‘amazing’), and lots of other stuff. At this point I even use it for all my work writing. In any case, it makes me feel good that’s there’s software out there letting people reach the same heights.
- xwowsersx 3y agoI use this sometimes and it's pretty nice: https://github.com/folke/zen-mode.nvim https://github.com/folke/zen-mode.nvim
- huhtenberg 3y agoLooks nice, but wouldn't hurt to know the price. At least a ballpark. Given all the pompousness and dripping exclusivity I'm guessing a bit under $100 ... ?
- selykg 3y agoA $100 notepad? Gimme a break. Given Baron Fig and Leuchtturm charge a premium (and are $20-30), I’d guess one of these would be under $30 if they had enough interest to produce large enough quantities. The price really depends on quantity.
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- syncbehind 3y agoThis looks like good paper. I hope it doesn't bleed or feather like most with fountainpen ink. I like the idea.
- threatofrain 3y agoYa'll may also want to check out Midori¹, a favorite of the journaling community. There's also Northbooks², a small American company. And Nanami Paper³ if you want to try out quality paper in the ultra-thin direction. [1]: https://md.midori-japan.co.jp/en/products/mdnote-cotton/ https://md.midori-japan.co.jp/en/products/mdnote-cotton/ [2]: https://gonorthbooks.com/ https://gonorthbooks.com/ [3]: https://www.nanamipaper.com/products/cafe-note-b6-slim-grid.html https://www.nanamipaper.com/products/cafe-note-b6-slim-grid....
- pryelluw 3y agoI bought one of the midori notebooks. It’s so nice that I feel bad about using it.
- maxverse 3y agoI've had that happen. I recently bought a few Muji notebooks for $2/piece[1]. They're thin, beautiful, and relatively cheap. I want to use them to doodle with less constraint or self-judgement, but still with a good experience. It's a weird balance between writing in a way that feels good, but also not judging yourself too much because you're using beautiful tools and materials. [1] https://www.muji.us/products/bind-grid-notebook-9s62?_pos=2&_sid=03906c408&_ss=r https://www.muji.us/products/bind-grid-notebook-9s62?_pos=2&...
- pryelluw 3y agoThank you. This is a good resource.
- zxt_tzx 3y agoI am not much of a pen-and-paper kinda person, but I recently came across CPG Grey's Sidekick Notepad that made me think twice. I like how it's designed to be integrated into a digital workflow and the "signaling" aspect of opening and closing the notepad is a nice touch too. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_7N8MFRJkc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_7N8MFRJkc Website: https://cottonbureau.com/p/XT9MRF/journal/sidekick-notepad https://cottonbureau.com/p/XT9MRF/journal/sidekick-notepad
- kyle_o 3y agoAs soon as I've paid for one version of iA, I seem to always need another. Keep it up!
- dshakti 3y agoUser since day 1 of the launch! Writer and Presenter are my 2 most used apps that I never close. They are both, philosophically speaking, made to make you think and challenge you to articulate better with every single use. The release notes of Writer 7 literally brought a smile on my face. So did the notebook. Simple oceans like these is truly what human craft is all about.
- dabei 3y agoTook me a couple of minutes to realize this is not an AI launch.
- jopsen 3y agoBeen loving the android app until recently, it's started to fail auto save :(
- marcomourao 3y agoIf they follow their app pricing model, it will cost €13,55 more in my country for absolutely no reason.
- vcg3rd 3y agoSo they took 10 years to reinvent Whitelines?
- minikomi 3y agoIn case anyone was wondering, the text is from Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa.
- pivic 3y agoI just have to say, after I discovered the ultra-thin and very fountain-pen friendly Tomoe River paper, I've not looked back: https://www.galenleather.com/blogs/news/tomoe-river-paper https://www.galenleather.com/blogs/news/tomoe-river-paper
- siddbudd 3y agoinformative title... how about: "Notebook with almost invisible guidelines"