I love it - at least the Platonic idea of it - for writing lots of scattered ideas quickly. The recommended workflow for the Alpha is to Just Write: sit down, h

I love it - at least the Platonic idea of it - for writing lots of scattered ideas quickly. The recommended workflow for the Alpha is to Just Write: sit down, hit the buttons to open a new, empty doc, then follow whenever your mind leads. You deliberately don't want to edit at this stage, unless it's a typo you can fix with a couple of backspaces. You're in writing mode, not editing or proofreading mode. Then you can pull the raw text into a full-featured editor on your computer and do all the editing you want later. And yeah, it's not even remotely decent at math or taking (or organizing) notes. It barely handles Markdown. If I were in the middle of writing and got sidetracked, I'd probably insert something like ...were roasting hot dogs on the fire when the UFO came TK NOTE Just remembered I should buy a suitcase and sucked the alligator up out of the lake. and then later I'd stumble across that when I was editing it. But also note that these aren't limitations in what the hardware+software could to. It's more about what the software should do, and for the Alpha, that's get out of the way so you can write.