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I’m addicted to paper. When reviewing documents I prefer to print them out and scribble on them. That’s all well and good in an office located on a planet with infinite trees, but I find myself in neither of those situations.
As a programmer, I also find it useful to scribble things down on paper, point at various scribble marks and ask people questions. I do enjoy making carefully perfected, data generated, diagrams with arcane tools. But scribbling is a necessary precursor.
I’ve had my eye on the ReMarkable Tablet for a while. It’s a tablet computer with a pressure-sensitive pen input and an e-ink screen, about A5 size. The makers of this device are as resolute about what it is meant to be, as what it isn’t. It is meant to provide an experience as close as possible to writing on paper. It isn’t meant to be almost anything else.
The main interface is a blank piece of paper. You can choose whether you want it lined squared or a dozen other backgrounds. You can choose what kind of pen or pencil you want to use. You can turn the page back and forth. These are collected into multi-page documents (called ‘notebooks’).
