The things that stop me from buying a Remarkable or any similar products are:
* Too expensive. I want to have one everywhere in my house, all wirelessly connected so I can just pick one up and scribble a note anywhere. I may carry one also, but mostly I'd rather have something I treat as paper and keep them handy to places I frequent.
* Stores data in the cloud. I want to create personal notes, I do not want to share my personal notes with a cloud.
* Wireless sync is not trivially easy. I should not need to manually sync it, configure it for a wireless network, connect it to the internet, or make backups, or manage the network, or manage the device.
* Good organizational software for the notes. Many ways to sort notes/drawings, ways to search them, writing-to-text converters, drawing recognizers, all local and protected by good default encryption.
If you're going to replace paper in my life, it's got to be as ubiquitous and easy to use as paper, as reliable, and offer advanced features as well. Otherwise it's an unnecessary expense that is more difficult to use and requires maintenance time.
> * Good organizational software for the notes. Many ways to sort notes/drawings, ways to search them, writing-to-text converters, drawing recognizers, all local and protected by good default encryption.
A love-child of Obsidian and OneNote would be my dream.
Obsidian does the text bits just like I want it, it's mostly just standard markdown with frontmatter and a few plugins that do fancy stuff (like dataview)
Canvas lets me make fancy displays of stuff like RPG character sheets.
But what's missing is the ability to just freeform write/draw with a stylus. ReMarkable could be the tool for that, but I don't see it happening.
* Too expensive. I want to have one everywhere in my house, all wirelessly connected so I can just pick one up and scribble a note anywhere. I may carry one also, but mostly I'd rather have something I treat as paper and keep them handy to places I frequent.
* Stores data in the cloud. I want to create personal notes, I do not want to share my personal notes with a cloud.
* Wireless sync is not trivially easy. I should not need to manually sync it, configure it for a wireless network, connect it to the internet, or make backups, or manage the network, or manage the device.
* Good organizational software for the notes. Many ways to sort notes/drawings, ways to search them, writing-to-text converters, drawing recognizers, all local and protected by good default encryption.
If you're going to replace paper in my life, it's got to be as ubiquitous and easy to use as paper, as reliable, and offer advanced features as well. Otherwise it's an unnecessary expense that is more difficult to use and requires maintenance time.