Can someone who uses a tool like this explain to me why they use it? I am of the opinion that nothing beats pen to page and recently bought an e-ink tablet that fulfills that role. Based on a cursory glance and my biases, it seems frivolous and over-engineered.
Sure, I started using (emacs) org-mode about a decade ago after deciding I wanted to get my notes out of Evernote. Obviously I wanted to avoid migrating again in the future, I wanted something as close as possible to plain text that wasn't in a SaaS.
org-mode happened to tick all the boxes while allowing me to:
* make links to lines from e-books I can click and go straight there
* refer to part of an email
* todo and agenda
* export in a easily to many formats to share with my coworkers or friends
* have some basic spreadsheet functionality (I don't really have need for an office suite)
* inline source code I can eval like a REPL, etc etc.
I probably could have used a handful of tools to get what I wanted, but org-mode offered all that and more. I expect I'll probably use it the rest of my life.
as for this particular project? I'm not a vim user, but it's nice to know that should I decide become one, I've got options.
I feel like remarkable is too barebones (especially with the subscription) while the android tablets are too “everything and the kitchen sink”, which an e-ink screen isn't the right tool for.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 25.4 ms ] threadorg-mode happened to tick all the boxes while allowing me to:
* make links to lines from e-books I can click and go straight there
* refer to part of an email
* todo and agenda
* export in a easily to many formats to share with my coworkers or friends
* have some basic spreadsheet functionality (I don't really have need for an office suite)
* inline source code I can eval like a REPL, etc etc.
I probably could have used a handful of tools to get what I wanted, but org-mode offered all that and more. I expect I'll probably use it the rest of my life.
as for this particular project? I'm not a vim user, but it's nice to know that should I decide become one, I've got options.
I feel like remarkable is too barebones (especially with the subscription) while the android tablets are too “everything and the kitchen sink”, which an e-ink screen isn't the right tool for.
A good place to start researching it and comparison to other e-ink tablets is this very elaborate YouTuber - MyDeepGuide