I really liked your comparison about eink tablets. Your way to explain Boox aproach is very good. I am now getting my first eink device afrer almost two yeras of reviewing and deciding (and waiting😅). But I did a purchase two years ago of a Booxs tablet (I think it was a Note Air 2) and I return it as soon as I test it becouse it felt exactly as an android tablet but much mote slow... and I wanted just to orgnize my work an take notes, so I started to dig into RM and Supernote,....anyhow, very good videos,...and I like your scottish accent,...I love your country. A place to wrte good novels😊
That is what Kitt always says. If you use notepads a lot and you want to go digital, then supernote, remarkable and the like are way to go. Supernote is just superior in my opinion, for this. If you need apps and to do more than just note taking, then you go with something like Boox. Which to me, it is a bit useless. Android is not Windows, so whatever productivity limitations you find on any Android tablet you will find it in a Boox tablet, minus the performance handicap of an eink display. My conclusion is, that eink devices are only brilliant for notetaking. And this all comes down to the design intention. Supernote and remarkable were designed with the intention of replacing paper. Windows was designed to replace the physical desktop and office space. But, Android was just designed to be an operating system for mobile devices with touchscreens and compete with iOS. So by cramming an eink display, an operating system that is not for productivity work into a tablet gives you a Frankenstein device that does everything, yet it does not do anything very well. Boox devices are not it, and I bought three of them over the years. When you want a specialist knife, you don't go Swiss army. When the Sony walkman was released, its inventor was against putting a recording button in it, because it would confuse the user on what what the product was supposed to do.
• Reader : Kindle • Replacement for a notepad: reMarkable • Review papers and books, organise and control text : The Supernote • An e-ink replacement for a computer: Boox
The supernote isn't able to look up words with a dictionary, so that doesn't make it the best device for review papers and books. If you need this because you read for instance a lot of academic PDFs and also need a good note taking experience, boox is the way to go. I personally would like to replace my 6 year old boox note and switch to another company but unfortunately I don't see a competitor for my needs here 😞.
@@Steffen68596 I agree that not having the ability to look up dictionary definitions is a negative, but the positives far outweigh that negatives in my use case until they add that functionality... until then I'll soldier on by looking them up either with my iPad mini while in bed, or when studying with my Boox Lumi2 sitting in a stand on my desk before me. I guess, Bigme is Boox' closet competitor, but they are still playing catchup... albeit, really quite fast.
I really appreciate this video. I mostly agree with your assessment, especially the idea of starting with a tablet versus starting with paper is compelling. I personally would not lump Supernote and reMarkable into the same category. I see the Supernote as in between the two. Great discussion though.
I really liked your comparison about eink tablets. Your way to explain Boox aproach is very good. I am now getting my first eink device afrer almost two yeras of reviewing and deciding (and waiting😅). But I did a purchase two years ago of a Booxs tablet (I think it was a Note Air 2) and I return it as soon as I test it becouse it felt exactly as an android tablet but much mote slow... and I wanted just to orgnize my work an take notes, so I started to dig into RM and Supernote,....anyhow, very good videos,...and I like your scottish accent,...I love your country. A place to wrte good novels😊
That is what Kitt always says. If you use notepads a lot and you want to go digital, then supernote, remarkable and the like are way to go. Supernote is just superior in my opinion, for this. If you need apps and to do more than just note taking, then you go with something like Boox. Which to me, it is a bit useless.
Android is not Windows, so whatever productivity limitations you find on any Android tablet you will find it in a Boox tablet, minus the performance handicap of an eink display. My conclusion is, that eink devices are only brilliant for notetaking.
And this all comes down to the design intention. Supernote and remarkable were designed with the intention of replacing paper. Windows was designed to replace the physical desktop and office space. But, Android was just designed to be an operating system for mobile devices with touchscreens and compete with iOS. So by cramming an eink display, an operating system that is not for productivity work into a tablet gives you a Frankenstein device that does everything, yet it does not do anything very well. Boox devices are not it, and I bought three of them over the years.
When you want a specialist knife, you don't go Swiss army.
When the Sony walkman was released, its inventor was against putting a recording button in it, because it would confuse the user on what what the product was supposed to do.
Kindness is a skill, It needs to be practised.🤝
Wisdom from my four-year-old!
I realized this when I was over 40. 😅
• Reader : Kindle
• Replacement for a notepad: reMarkable
• Review papers and books, organise and control text : The Supernote
• An e-ink replacement for a computer: Boox
Agree whole heartedly.
The supernote isn't able to look up words with a dictionary, so that doesn't make it the best device for review papers and books. If you need this because you read for instance a lot of academic PDFs and also need a good note taking experience, boox is the way to go. I personally would like to replace my 6 year old boox note and switch to another company but unfortunately I don't see a competitor for my needs here 😞.
@@Steffen68596 I agree that not having the ability to look up dictionary definitions is a negative, but the positives far outweigh that negatives in my use case until they add that functionality... until then I'll soldier on by looking them up either with my iPad mini while in bed, or when studying with my Boox Lumi2 sitting in a stand on my desk before me. I guess, Bigme is Boox' closet competitor, but they are still playing catchup... albeit, really quite fast.
I really appreciate this video. I mostly agree with your assessment, especially the idea of starting with a tablet versus starting with paper is compelling. I personally would not lump Supernote and reMarkable into the same category. I see the Supernote as in between the two. Great discussion though.
Thanks for watching!
You're forgetting about the Kobo Elipsa (2e), which is basically the Kobo version of the Scribe (although it preceded it).