Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-14 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018, at 2:58 PM, Daniel Camolês wrote: > > I understand the sunken cost fallacy, but seriously, there's a reason > handwriting on tablets is not that much used despite the existence of > softwares for such. It can be useful when it comes to short annotations, but > it's really

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-13 Thread Lucio De Re
On 2/13/18, Mart Zirnask wrote: > On 13/02/2018, Lucio De Re wrote: >> Stenography (short-hand)? >> > Yes -- "everything is a line"! > https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/yeah-i-still-use-shorthand-and-a-smartpen/373281/ > Thank you

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-13 Thread Mart Zirnask
On 13/02/2018, Lucio De Re wrote: > On 2/13/18, Daniel Camolês wrote: >> [ ... ] >> >> Maybe it's not impossible that someone would come up with a way to input >> text using a pen over a screen that's even more efficient and convenient >> than a

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Maybe it's not impossible that someone would come up with a way to input text using a pen over a screen that's even more efficient and convenient than a keyboard. So far, such technology just doesn't exist. Dust off the handwriting code that was done for the bitsy.

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-13 Thread Lucio De Re
On 2/13/18, Daniel Camolês wrote: > [ ... ] > > Maybe it's not impossible that someone would come up with a way to input > text using a pen over a screen that's even more efficient and convenient > than a keyboard. So far, such technology just doesn't exist. > Stenography

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-13 Thread Daniel Camolês
Well because... A keyboard is very cheap and if you could pay for your tablet, you can probably afford it? And it's an efficient way to input text, way more efficient than any handwriting on a screen. I understand the sunken cost fallacy, but seriously, there's a reason handwriting on tablets is

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018, at 12:52 PM, Daniel Camolês wrote: > You could use, you know, a keyboard with my ordinary tablet? sure! with a $600 tablet whose main trick is the handwriting input? why would i buy the tablet? -- The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. -- Chaucer

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-13 Thread Daniel Camolês
You could use, you know, a keyboard Em 13 de fev de 2018 10:49, "Ethan Grammatikidis" escreveu: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018, at 2:51 PM, hiro wrote: > > your features sound neat, but they don't solve the problem of inputing > > longer text. > > > > i imagine many would find

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-13 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Mon, Feb 12, 2018, at 2:51 PM, hiro wrote: > your features sound neat, but they don't solve the problem of inputing > longer text. > i imagine many would find handwriting more comfortable than tapping a lot. possibly more accurate too, although an osk on a screen that big isn't too bad for

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-12 Thread hiro
your features sound neat, but they don't solve the problem of inputing longer text.

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-12 Thread Bakul Shah
On Feb 12, 2018, at 5:44 AM, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > i might even run acme > for a day for you. but with mouse and keyboard, i would never replace > them with touch input. Ah, but where’s the challenge in that?! Some ideas to give a sense of what I’m thinking: drawing a line across

Re: [9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-12 Thread hiro
we have two of these devices here in the office and my coworker loves to use it for making notes and sketches. i like the device's size for reading pdfs with annoying layouts, and i prefer this screen technology to the glaring normal displays i get to use otherwise. replace my main monitor with

[9fans] ReMarkable!

2018-02-12 Thread Bakul Shah
https://gizmodo.com/the-remarkable-e-ink-tablet-is-way-too-good-for-its-sof-1822612517 People like writing on its plastic screen much better than on iPadPro with its glass screen. Even with a thin plastic protector screen on the iPad, it does not fell like writing on paper - the screen doesn’t