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tbh the write path on just paper is so good, and at least for me it's very rare that I need to actually digitize anything.

I just invested in a printer that works and print out a lot of stuff I want to deeply annotate. Otherwise I have the ipad for some other stuff.

I really enjoy eink for reading but it's really a super specific market. Competing against the ipad is tough! The generalist devices tend to get so good that the specialized devices stop being worth it.

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Agreed, but paper fails at organizing. My brain loves folder structures and hyper specific note files. Remarkable seemed like the perfect device for me.

I’ve settled on markdown in vscode and a todo list app.

You've probably heard of Org mode. Go look it up - md and a todo app is exactly poor man's Org mode.

does not have paper ergonomics

Right, I replied to the guy who holds the stance that "paper fails at organizing".

I’m a big lover of the ecosystem and a heavy Emacs, but after several attempts I couldn’t get into Org mode: (1) it’s too complex and full featured, while my loose mind requires a strict and minimalistic system to be productive; (2) mobile support is quite lacking — yes, there’re beorg and Mobileorg, but they don’t do it for me for one reason or another.

So I’ve a custom GTD-like system build using iOS reminders, .md files, and a couple of scripts.

Yes, or Org mode can be quite complex if you let it be. I mostly only use the same features as markdown supports: headings and code fences.

For mobile (Android) I use Orgro.

My experience has been that it's very easy to flip through a pile of papers, and I tend to "know" where the info is.

The beauty of physical interfaces like for paper is that you really can just flip through a stack while talking to someone and find what you need.

The big thing that I think works well in paper world is simply having things organized chronologically. I often remember around when I collected a piece of info.

The RM2 also fails at organizing: no text search in PDFs and not in notes, if you don't convert every handwritten note into text on a new page; only tags, which means if you don't add tags everywhere, you can't find anything by searching; etc. It's extremely expensive for the functionality it offers.

I googled "just paper" thinking it was another device...

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