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by DoingIsLearning 1251 days ago
If you don't mind the question how is the Remarkable helping you in this. Just to avoid the clutter of paper? Or does it some how OCR you're handwriting?
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I hate the clutter of paper and how hard to organise it is for me. Plus, how messy I am writing on paper and crossing things out all the time.

The Remarkable, at least for me, is good because I can organise my notebooks into folders by certain math lessons or concepts. And I can undo any mistakes, so my notes are clean. Even if I am quickly working something out I am clean it up and make it a good note for future me. The feel of writing on it is much nicer as well versus my laptop's pen or my iPad's pen.

Also, I like that it basically just does notes. There's no Android bullshit, it's just no nonsense note taking. Some competitor tablets have Android and all that baggage.

It can OCR you writing, but I don't know how good that would be for math.

The Remarkable isn't the only tablet that can do this, but it's the one I bought because I like the style and the simplicity of the software.

A similar solution might be https://getrocketbook.com/ RocketBook. It can be a $0 dollar solution if you download their app and then print out the free PDF pages that are pre-formatted.
I have a remarkable 2 and a Microsoft Surface Pro, intended to de-clutter math coursework. Both work, but I found that the real estate on the remarkable was too limited, even though its a great device, so I tried the Surface Pro. I can fit just about any sized work onto it, and you can endlessly scroll down which was something I couldn't figure out on the remarkable. It makes doing math easy or at least takes away some housekeeping which I find really distracting. And saving and organizing work and being able to import and export files is a bonus.
For what it's worth, version 3.0 of the RM's software now allows endlessly scrolling down.