#43

This device seems great to stop using paper.
Here many forests were destroyed to plant eucalyptus for the paper industry.
How well does that device work if you don’t want to use their cloud solution and their apps?

#44

remarkable only (currently ? (*) ) support their cloud solution, and you can email the docs as png/pdf/svg to yourself.

under the ‘cover’ i’ts linux based, and so you can do things like rsync etc.
there’s some in the community doing that, but it’s a bit technical for most users.

there is one company (einkpads.com?) who have just announced they have created an app for the remarkable that will sync to other cloud services. not released yet, so don’t know how good it will be.

anyway, whilst I recognise some might have valid reasons for not wanting to use remarkable’s cloud service, its a non-issue for me and works well - and importantly there is enough open source info out there about the remarkable doc format (etc), that I’m confident if one day it became an issue I could do something about it.

(*) but for sure, I know some in the remarkable community have been wanting remarkable to provide alternatives… but remarkable, like many software companies, have made no comment on if this is something they’d want to do or not.

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#45

thanks for the reply.
My issue is that in 5 years the apps might not work or the cloud is closed and i am left with a unusable device.

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#46

Yeah mine too, but as I’m a developer , I just need to know that I can do something about it if needed in the future :slight_smile:

( there’s a remarkable github repo where various devs have collected the necessary info together)

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#47

Now to get back on topic, i usually use a black Lamy Al-star fountain pen or a muji fountain pen, both with a refillable cartridge.
As for paper, usually get anything that either is A5 or A6 (A6 preferably).
My favorites are a Portuguese brand (Firmo)

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They are top quality and come in different sizes and paper templates (they even have some weird ones that grocers used to have to keep balances).

Would love to completely transition to digital though.

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#48

Umm, at the time probably Tokyo or Osaka.
I did notice certain papers were more susceptible than others. I wonder if it was a combination of paper-chemistry with direct sunlight exposure.

Certainly there was a story going around about a student who failed all their exams after using a Frixion for the papers. And then committed suicide, because, you know, Japan urban myth.

(On a tangential but related note, last summer killed the waterproof lining on four of my bags; two turned to glue, one flaked off, one disintegrated to dust. Tokyo is a hard city.)

#49

I have used notebooks for some 25 years, some Moleskine, some Muji, some Field Notes, some Rhodia, some Clairefontaine. Mine are pretty well disorganised, and I love them to be like that. There’s some work stuff, then some personal writing, some random drawings, stuff that ended in books, lists, all mashed together. Sometimes I skim through them, they’re a random almanac of my life.

The only constant has been the pen: always a Lamy fountain pen. I have a Lamy 2000 and a couple of Safaris (they’re inexpensive, one has a medium nib and one has a broad one) and I’ve managed not to lose them for all this time. I like to change ink colors, but my favourite is Waterman Havana, especially on non perfectly white paper. It looks so good, even if my calligraphy is not the best (sometimes even I can’t understand what I wrote myself).

Now I’m using a Midori Traveller’s Notebook. I’d love the cover to get old with me.

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#50

I have great trouble keeping my brain going in a single direction, it tends to want to go in all the directions, all the time. (I suspect I’m not the only one on Lines with this issue…)

At some point I discovered that writing down my thought process on any given thing helped add some linearity and focus, so I keep a single notebook in which I do that, I like to think of it as a ‘lab notebook’ for my life. Often the contents are fairly trivial.

As an added benefit, when writing my thought processes down, there is usually an obvious conclusion which also gets written down. This act is usually enough to tell my brain to stop thinking about it now.

As to tools… I’m currently using a “Nanami Seven Seas Crossfield A5” which is filled with Tomoe River paper (@bobbcorr) and is delightful to use with fountain pens. I also have SABLE quantities of ink in a drawer (stash acquisition beyond life expectancy).

One tip for anyone that writes daily entries in notebooks, have 2 pens inked with different colours and alternate them each day, it makes it easy to see where today’s entry has started as well as finding older entries. And if you use fountain pens, change the colour whenever you run out of ink, then last weeks entries look different to this weeks.

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#51

I actually use exactly the same pen but in blue. I really like the way it feels but sadly the ink doesn’t last long at all and replacing it isn’t cheap. I got it from the same store I buy my notebooks from, which is manufactum here in Germany. The notebooks are Atoma copy books, which are the best notebooks for me as I tend to be too precious about what I write down.

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In these notebooks you can remove and add pages easily as they are just metal rings with pages and covers slotted in. This means I can write and write for as long as I need and then go back and reorder the pages according to content, which I love. One day I’ll buy the fairly expensive perforator that can turn any page into one that will fit inside the notebooks but for now I’m content with the pages you can buy. Especially because they have parallel projection ones that are great for outlining rooms and such!

If you’re into stationary (and I’m assuming you are if you’re reading this thread) and you ever get a chance to visit one of the manufactum stores in Germany, I really recommend it. I could get lost there for hours.

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#52

How well do these stand up to being bashed around and kept in the bottom of a bag? I’m very tempted by the idea of a binding system rather than a variety of notebooks, but am concerned at the thought of it all coming apart.

#53

I’d say as long as they don’t open up in your bag (which you could ensure by using a rubber band or something), they are absolutely fine. I’ve been carrying mine around in a tote bag for the last semester and the way it looks now, I may only have to replace the cover in half a year or so but thats about it. Maybe you can see it on the pictures but the lower and upper left corners are probably what’s going to give out first.

I just tested pulling a page out straight to the side of the notebook and it held up surprisingly well, there’s a lot of paper holding it inside the metal ring. And even if it falls apart, putting it together again only takes a minute.

As a sidenote, I’m using A5 but I also have an A4 at home and the A4 is considerably more floppy, as the pages are heavier, which means that the cardboard cover doesn’t hold them in place as well as it does with the A5. It’s not really a problem for me because I like the A5 way better for taking with me but maybe that’s important to you.

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Wow, I easily took more than 50 pages of notes this week.

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#55

Sounds good to me. I’ve found a shop in London, so am off to feel it in the flesh.

This one.
This is the one true notebook.
The one that will solve all my woes.

#56

this is a wonderful suggestion, thank you!

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#57

Report back with what you think, I’d be interested to hear! Also try to find out if they have the perforator thingy and how much it is, I think it makes the whole system way more useful.

It is the notebook saviour.
It forgives all notebook sins.
Begone, bad doodles!

#58

love things like this where I see words I recognize, but have no idea what they all mean together - the vastness of knowledge! :slight_smile: and it’s always good to be reminded that “the rules are if you think you see a cube, there’s a cube”

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#59

Hmm. Had a look in Choosing Keeping (https://choosingkeeping.com). The Atoma is not for me, I think. While the utility of it appeals, something about it just felt off. I think I prefer a stitched spine, with all the limits that entails…

Plus, you know, I’ve got several unfinished notebooks on the go as it is.

#60

I use mostly moleskin but im not in love with he marketing which is a bit smug and they are overpriced. that said they do last well as i fill them up slowly and carry them around a lot. The one thing I ask from a notebook is that they stay open at the right page when flat on a desk. those field notes do look a bit too crappy for me if they are fold and staple.:nauseated_face:
I always use pencil - never pen -and put creative stuff at the front and designs and technical ideas at the back. My favouite thing is to sit on a train designing instruments I will probably never build. and waiting for the next station to rub out a wonky line and draw a straight one.

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#61

in school, i always took notes by hand because with a keyboard i would just end up transcribing lectures instead of synthesizing key points. always had difficulty tracking and organizing where specific notes lived though, once i got too lazy to copy my handwritten notes into a computer. i’m going to grad school this fall after a few years off, and looking forward to implementing some bullet journal strategies to help solve this problem.

i love my muji notebooks especially putting cute lil stamps on em to keep track of what they’re for. love their pens too. the horizontal lines, dotted columns, grid system is ideal for my brain’s dislike of straight-up ruled notebooks and inability to handle the chaos of the fully empty page.

here’s an artsy pic of my piggie notebook, muji pen, and overpriced mocha i’m really regretting as a beverage - as a prop, it is exceptional.

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#63

I’m finding it difficult to justify buying a nice (pricey) notebook because of my messy handwriting and crossing things out. Anyone else experience penmanshame?

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