Use case: I work in a publicly funded institution where the contents of my notes are often required for lawsuits, settlements, and general FOIA inquiries on occasion. Being able to carry around 50 different notebooks for various uses, cordon them off from each other, and reproduce them in either original form, or converted to text is a remarkable time saver.
The only thing it doesn't have that I desperately wish it did is to be able to tag pages and search via tag. That would make my life so much better.
It's fun to draw on, but I'm a garbage artist. So it's pleasant to be able to doodle while I'm thinking in meetings and then immediately erase the doodle, but I don't use it for more than that.
Marking up pdf or other files is pretty great, too.
So it works better than any other item with written to printed text conversion that I've found. My handwriting is especially bad, and I would say it has an 80-90% correct rate, compared to my last system that I tried (neonotes smartpen) that is light years ahead. That was less than 10% correct.
I have never used the search function. I do not convert to text unless I have a specific use. This is why I wish we could tag pages and search via tag - I had to create my own recordkeeping system via headers that you can see in the gridview to be able to quickly find what I need.
>Does it have the option to straighten lines? Say that I draw a box, will it make it square or a circle round?
When you are drawing, it follows your pen. From what I can tell, there is no 'snap to grid' or whatever option that might be. That might be nice. If you are talking about once you convert to text, it does not convert drawings.
Overall, the search is pretty terrible. Just adding tags would alleviate that, and make this, for me, the perfect tool for work.
I don't have a rm2 but I already love the idea of being able to tag pages (hopefully even multiple tags), and perhaps even to a lesser extent, tag sections of pages. And then search by multiple tags to drill down into specific pages/sections.
My primary use-case right now is storyboarding. The RM2 has dozens of templates (notebook paper, grid paper, etc.) and three of them are storyboard templates at various sizes. I haven't been able to adjust to Wacoms etc., but drawing on the RM2's display feels "right." I can zip through drawing up storyboards and then email the PDF immediately to collaborators. I can choose to send individual pages as PNGs, too. Only small downside is lack of color, but that's the eInk breaks.
I also use it for annotating and displaying PDFs as well as sheet music when practicing piano. I don't read many eBooks on it because I have a smaller Kindle which has a light, making it more versatile when I'm in the mood for reading.
It does— thanks. Storyboarding is about the level of graphic capability I'd need. I keep trying to adjust to using my iPad Pro w/Apple Pencil 2. It's an incredibly capable set of tools, but I just can't get comfortable with it.
The iPads feel like... drawing on glass with a plastic pencil. The expressiveness, pressure sensitivity, and tools are all incredible... but it's definitely in the drawing tablet realm of mark making rather than the paper realm of mark making.
Use case: I work in a publicly funded institution where the contents of my notes are often required for lawsuits, settlements, and general FOIA inquiries on occasion. Being able to carry around 50 different notebooks for various uses, cordon them off from each other, and reproduce them in either original form, or converted to text is a remarkable time saver.
The only thing it doesn't have that I desperately wish it did is to be able to tag pages and search via tag. That would make my life so much better.
It's fun to draw on, but I'm a garbage artist. So it's pleasant to be able to doodle while I'm thinking in meetings and then immediately erase the doodle, but I don't use it for more than that.
Marking up pdf or other files is pretty great, too.