Oh wait! I just realized you weren't talking about the Detroit Lions!
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This explains why you communicate so clearly! I have been impressed. My compliments to your mother.
Yes. I have to begrudgingly admit that PDF is the best available solution for mixing text and vector drawings. They save a path and a tool. The path itself, I think, encodes angle and pressure.
You can certainly put all you math PDFs on it and add note pages to them or write on them etc. There is copy/paste functionality but I don't think it works on the text layer. I vaguely think I tried it awhile back for the same reason.
I cannot compare it to a modern iPad. I have not tried one. I imagine an iPad has better features, color, responsiveness, integrations etc.
But I didn't want better. I wanted to write. With a reMarkable2, you turn it on and write, it doesn't do anything else. It is nice to look at, nice to hold, and nice to write on.
If you have a could subscription. It does have OCR but I am not sure it works well with math. I haven't tried it in a while. I don't publish, I just use it as a notepad. Math still seems best done by hand. I don't need to hunt for symbols, I just write them down, same as Euler, and Gauss did.
The main benefits over paper are endless scrolling pages so you can work a problem to its end, and staying organized.
The drawbacks are poor scrolling if you need to look at prior work, smaller than paper screen size, and lack of export options.
Also, while you can make straight lines by holding your stylus down, there isn't a way to make a circle, so diagrams are limited by my own limited artistic ability. I 3d printed my own compass to use. But it is never around when I need it.
Yes. There are more open alternatives. Like the Supernote that are android based that you could put some effort into. I really don't like embedded browsers though. The idealist in me recoils from the waste and bloat.
They have a cloud and a USB web interface. If you don't want to use a USB cable you have to pay for cloud access. Then you can do Dropbox integration, get an app on you phone etc. it's annoying.
No. It has a file structure and PDFs with layers. That is it.
It is barely acceptable for what I need it for. It is the right direction.
I'd love to try a daylight.
Part of the charm of a remarkable, though is that it really is just a notebook. No apps etc. also I charge it maybe once a month. That feels like magic.
It is more than that. If you allow hand writing, you've added an aspect ratio and text flow constraints. Otherwise they won't appear in the right place on a new device.
Try the reMarkable2. Seriously. I got one a few years ago to do math on/jot down any of a million ideas, because I am always losing papers. As soon as I got one I knew I needed more for the kids because keeping homework straight was a nightmare.
It actually helps with the perennial "show your work" problem. We still have that, but the mental block of trying to be space efficient is removed. They can just scroll the page further down or add a page. Also there is less hassle in fixing mistakes since, unlike pencils, stylus erasers don't leave a mark.
The only bugger with remarkable is that they are very locked down. That is the appeal. Apps are a distraction, but it would be nice if I could have the files rsync to another device or something.
Yup. It is kind of my end goal for whatever I build. I want learning to be a book, a stylus, and a slate. No learning to use an app. Just read and write.
Paper is actually horrible for this since you end up with too much of it. But make the slate a magically infinite notebook, then you can learn any time anywhere. I still prefer physical books, but having a library on you magic slate is ok too.
Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic. It is stupid but that is what we have called it here in the states forever.
I actually fell asleep last night thinking how nostr and nostr:nprofile1qqsggm4l0xs23qfjwnkfwf6fqcs66s3lz637gaxhl4nwd2vtle8rnfqprdmhxue69uhhg6r9vehhyetnwshxummnw3erztnrdakj7qfqwaehxw309ahx7um5wghx26tww4hxg7nhv9h856t89eehqctrv5hsz8rhwden5te0w35x2cmfw3skgetv9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5hsjmvd7t could help me with homeschooling. Alexandria is a no brainer. But I have a dream where my kids can do the majority of their schoolwork on a reMarkable2 like tablet.
We use them as notebooks for the kids and it is amazing for organization, but horrible for grading since file sharing is a nightmare. But if they could submit their note books as a nostr event to a school relay I could mark it up with a grading event. Asciidoc wouldn't work unfortunately so that is why I was thinkinging it over as I fell asleep.
I love this formulation. I had not heard similar, but it rings true. I am homeschooling most of my kids and the curriculum I use does this but I often focus in my own mind on the three Rs.
The whole of the modern world needs to understand beauty. But we hate anything that can be concretely defined as good because it makes demands upon us.
Brutalism and utilarian design are things precisely because Beauty makes stark contrast with the vileness of our desires.
I think you will find that "studies" programs have no great love for literature or the humanities.
I've never been a member because I had never heard of them, but now that I have, I am appalled at their lack of a stance against those impossible to clean broiler pan inserts.