If You Tried or Used a SuperNote and Stopped, Why?

[pantulis]

@bx987

I highly recommend the Boox Note Max e-ink tablet. It is especially well suited for reading PDF documents because of the large screen that allows you to view PDF at full siz

It’s a good device.

As I mentioned before, I didn’t feel it was a bad buy, it was just too much friction to adapt my workflow to it. Also I felt that the device, with its 13’’ inches, got very warm under the Madrid summer sun to the point of being uncomfortable to hold in my lap. Which is logical because anyway the bigger screen surface captures more heat! But if I had to resort to use the device in the shade I might as well use an iPad.

[Darkwing]

@Bmosbacker

I’ve just ordered the Paperlike screen protector. I will try this to see if I like it

I’ve been very happy with a cheap version of the “Paperlike” on my iPad both for note-taking and for reading. I sometimes toggle the greyscale accessibility colour filter as well which together with the matte screen protector results in a pretty good impression of an e-ink display while keeping within the Apple ecosystem. I use Goodnotes which syncs seamlessly to my Mac and offers handwriting recognition too.

[Bmosbacker]

@dukelajolla

I find I don’t have issues with being distracted by incoming mail or messages, which is one of the touted advantages of a limited function device

I don’t either. I have notifications for email turned off on all my devices. In fact, I have notifications turned off for most of my applications, Reminders and Calendar being among the few exceptions.

[johnlaudun]

I have one. I used it for a couple of months, and I was pretty happy with it, but then I encountered the limitation that made me put it on a shelf and forget about it. (If anyone wants to buy it, they are welcome.)

I’m a researcher and writer. I bought the SuperNote to read articles which mostly come to me in the form of PDFs. The SuperNote’s ability to mark up a PDF and even allow me to scribble notes in the margin seemed pretty ideal. Using it on its own is not the problem.

The problem comes when you want to connect things back to your computer. I used Dropbox to sync, but the process of merging the notes and markup back to the PDF got pretty tiresome. (Maybe they have made this less onerous.) I also didn’t like that only Dropbox was supported. I keep a pretty large library of articles and books, all managed by Bookends, in iCloud. For me to read them on the SuperNote I needed to drag them out of iCloud, into Dropbox, read and mark them up, merge the markup back with the PDF, and then drag the PDF back into iCloud.

I am lazy. That was too many steps.

To be fair, I still read a lot on paper, and that’s hardly transferable as well.