Ask HN: Do you own a E-ink tablet to take notes

Yup, I have a mobi scribe, I&#x27;m an electrician and use it for whole projects, keeping notes, and the ability to draw diagrams, make free hand notes, draw pictures, etc., is fantastic.<p>It feels similar to paper, and the stylus hasn&#x27;t worn out in the year I&#x27;ve been using it, but it came with a spare.<p>It&#x27;s slow, but I don&#x27;t usually find it a problem, unless a client is there and waiting for information, then it&#x27;s a bit embarrassing waiting for page changes to refresh.<p>The software is a bit limited, but I find it very usable for my applications within it&#x27;s limitations.<p>It has a micro usb port to download your data, or I assume print it, I don&#x27;t know as I don&#x27;t need to do either.<p>Oh, it also has a switchable back light, and an on-screen keyboard that I rarely use, and one can store and read some ebooks with it, no sound, no Wi-fi.<p>The battery life is finally getting to where I need to charge it after a couple of days, instead of every week.<p>But yes, it&#x27;s replaced pen and paper for my needs, and I&#x27;m just fine with that.

Tried but decided against the e-ink option. The reMarkable is nice and closer to paper then an iPad but I&#x27;ve actually come to like and use the iPad pro with an apple pencil for manual note taking. It gives me the hand-writing experience while still being useful for other applications so it&#x27;s not a single use device I have to carry around. Paper still feels better, but I usually lose paper.

No, you&#x27;ll have to pry my fountain pen from my cold dead fingers. I have tried a lot of digital note taking solutions and I always find that they distract from the task of actually taking notes, including typing. Or, perhaps it is that taking notes with pen and paper doesn&#x27;t distract from what you are actually taking notes about.

Personally I wouldn&#x27;t consider any electronic note taking that doesn&#x27;t have automatic bidirectional syncing with my other devices (phone, desktop). That should really be table-stakes by now, because ubiquity is one of the main upsides of &quot;going paperless&quot;.

Own- yes, take notes- no. My Pocketbook eReader supports note taking but those devices are too slow to mimic real note taking.

I want to like the remarkable tablet and am an e-ink fanboy. I want to use this for notes but think it is overkill

I use a typewriter to take notes in general, though it isn&#x27;t very practical if you need something mobile

No. I sometimes take notes in my phone, and even that lag is too much. If I need freehand notes, I use paper.

Remarkable baby!