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Lighted USB volume knob - they're inexpensive, the large aluminum knob is on a sturdy base, can be pressed down for mute.

ReMarkable2 e-ink tablet -- okay, it's a standalone device, but interfaces to the computer in cool ways (like screen sharing), and it's changed my life as far as note-taking goes

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Everyone mentions the remarkable but the degrading pencil tips have got to be the stupidest, most infuriating, most egregiously rent-seeking product conceivable by the human mind. I refuse to play that game. Why would I want that feeling anyways? On paper I choose the slickest paper and exclusively use a fountain pen as wet as practical without being messy. I understand the glass tablet surface isn't nice for writing and I appreciate the alternative, but the $1.50 a pop guarantee that the tablet becomes a paperweight when remarkable goes out of business is insane. (On that note, I also seem to recall that features have been removed from the device via updates.)

There are a bajillion 3rd-party sellers for EMR nibs; they're just little bits of plastic.

You might be interested in the Supernote, though - it's a similar device to the Remarkable, but it comes with a hard-nib pen and has a slightly soft surface on the screen, which gives it more of a pen-on-paper feel.

Just wondering, do you have good handwriting? I love the idea of hand written notes, but while my writing is legible, it’s unpleasant on the eye.

My handwriting is crap, always has been, but I take handwritten notes at times because it is convenient and fast (sometimes), I don't take them to look easy on the eye, I take them for the utility of having taken them. Usually I'll OCR anything that needs keeping long-term and keep it digitally.

Things like BuJo don't appeal to me, because it strips the practical nature of handwritten notes away in favour of making something more akin to art, and thus people become precious about their aesthetics rather than quality of note taking and ability to use their notes. Sorry, bit of rant, been trying to nail notes for a long time, but my conclusion is different tools for different tasks. Trying to compile it all in one place is a nice idea, but perhaps unrealistic for a lot of fields.

I use plug-in Sennheiser HD 569 headphones, for better audio experience. But with that, I have a Koss in-line volume control. I'm very picky with how loud things are, so I use the volume control to fine-tune it frequently. Much easier than having to constantly tweak software settings for volume.

The ReMarkable is so tempting but so expensive. It's just hard to stomach spending $500 at a minumum for the tablet + folio + stylus when I could have an iPad (a gimped base model one, but still) for the same price

I find it very tempting but last time I looked into it the sync is to their proprietary service (unless you mess with it). That is going to be a hard no from me.

Got mine for $279 refurb on their site, $299 new. Get a third party pen w/eraser, I think they can be had for $40.

It syncs to Google Cloud

> Lighted USB volume knob - they're inexpensive, the large aluminum knob is on a sturdy base, can be pressed down for mute.

Any particular recommendations with Linux support?

This isn't standalone, and doesn't have press-for-mute, but the DasKeyboard 4 Pro has a nice, large aluminum volume knob (and a separate mute button near it). Works perfectly in Linux, along with the "sleep" button. It's part of the keyboard so it's close to your hands and doesn't have any separate cabling.

I got two from Amazon recently and they both work out of the box with Linux. I suspect any you can find will work. They’re standard HID devices which send multimedia key codes like KEY_VOLUMEUP and KEY_VOLUMEDOWN

https://www.amazon.com/d/B0BKG11XBQ

https://www.amazon.com/d/B0B5ZXZWS5

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