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I found remarkable [0] recently and ordered one. I love writing with pen and paper. Remarkable looks the closest to that experience and can save digitally. It's like having your cake and eat it too :)

[0] https://remarkable.com/

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I have found my rocketbook[0] extremely useful for the task. Its almost as good as real paper and you can find the pens anywhere. Only issue is once you scan it you can't edit it.

[0] https://getrocketbook.com/

Wat?? Could you explain me how it works? Is it a screen? Regular paper? Something in the middle? Really curious...

It's a kind of plasticky paper. It's got QR codes on it and little circles at the bottom so you can save each scan to different places. The paper is a little slick to pass for real pen and paper writing experience, but it's not bad.

The pen used is a Frixion pen. If cleaned in a week or so, the ink can wipe off with a damp cloth (similar to wet erase markers). But it can also be cleared with heat/friction (be aware, sufficiently cooling it can cause it to reappear, at least faintly). This also means you shouldn't leave something written with these pens in the car on a hot summer day unless the intent is to clear the page to write over.

Along with Rocketbook notebooks, you can also look into "stone paper" products which offer similar usability but without the scanning tool/app that Rocketbook provides.

It´s a normal notebook but with some kind of plastic-coated paper sheets. You can use certain type of pens to draw on it which is deleted with heat.

I bought one for my wife that can be heated in the microwave to "reset" it. A pretty nice gimmick for someone that still write in paper.

I went with the Fujitsu A4 as i wanted the bigger screen, but everything I read about it said it worked wonders with the writing feel as well. Should arrive next week, and I'm already beyond excited for it.

I love remarkable. Really worth checking out rehackable as well. There is a growing community of people building mods.

Is there a web browser mod? This would be the killer device if it could browse the web

EDIT nevermind, I see that they have a Chrome plugin that sends web pages to the device. Would much rather have a built-in browser https://remarkable.com/

if remarkable offered an integration with G-Suite, specifically Google Docs, I would buy one right now

boox air has full android. I use google books but you won't be able to use google docs for writing because apps need to be designed to account for eink latency.

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