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NoteSlate: the $100 tablet that will replace your legal pad forever

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2180623 covers the original (and it doesn't exist yet)

Putting aside the obvious issues with comparing a $100 device with something that costs maybe as much as $5, would anyone really use something like this?

It seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem with a couple of nice features but I'm not sure if they're enough to make me change my habits.

Besides, I can always just take a picture of my notes with my iphone and put them in Evernote.

Maybe with some more features. I take a lot of notes when studying so being able to search and tag notes would be handy. Backups are nice when your notes are valuable. It would also save me carrying around huge binders full of paper.

I do like the idea of putting things onto an SD card, but the $100 price tag seems to be way too high.

Then again, for people that spend a lot of money on notepaper (how much do people spend over say, 3 years? More than $100?) and pens there might be a positive tradeoff.

how do you find the text recognition in evernote using a camera to take pictures of notes? I've tried using it with business cards and a nexus one to no avail - would be great if this worked

I don't scan them. My handwriting is truly terrible. I can barely parse it myself, I wouldn't put someone's servers under the kind of strain needed to pull it off successfully!

If this device existed and worked as advertised I would but one and use one.

If it is thin and light I would carry one everywhere - the way Kindles get carried around. I currently carry pads and paper everywhere.

However - I don't want features. I want a really good writing/sketching/doodling experience - something that an iPad cannot supply. The only feature I'd want is the ability to easily get my notes onto other devices

Why shouldn't we carry an iPad, a Kindle and a Notepad?

This is a fantastic device in environments where you take lots of notes. As others have pointed out, the 'digital' aspect of this device makes it much easier to take notes and share them. No more scanning your notes!!

Besides, I would rather have an SD card of notes than a 1" binder full of notes!! I could always print the notes later.

I just wonder how the refresh rate of an eInk display would affect the writing experience...is it going to refresh on every pen stroke or is there a creative solution to that problem that I'm not thinking of?

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