I use a Boox E-Ink tablet with the built-in handwriting notes app. It exports to PDF and I can copy everything to my Debian machine via ADB. I absolutely love it. E-Ink is close enough to paper for me, and the EMR (Wacom) stylus is close enough to a pen for me.
replyYeah but do you trust those guys?
replyI am aware that people don't trust the Chinese. Which brands do you trust?
replyAs another poster mentioned about the ReMarkable, the Boox works just fine offline. I do use mine online, e.g. for reading HN as I prefer the E-Ink screen for text. But as for note-taking, everything I do is offline, including moving the PDF documents to the desktop via ADB.
reMarkable tablet, for example, works offline just fine
replyI was in the same position as you when I started my law degree!
replyMy solution was:
- Take notes on paper
- Scan with Genius Scan (free) or similar
- Upload to Microsoft Document Intelligence on Azure to get character recognition and a PDF output (standard OCR sucks for handwriting; also free for up to like 50 docs a month)
- Tidy up the text and store in Mediawiki long-term (you can also upload a copy of the OCR enabled PDF) (FOSS)
- File paper notes
- Throw paper notes once module is complete