[jessriedel]

I ~exclusively use ZoomNotes, which is very customizable but is quirky and comes with a steep learning curve.

For me the main benefits of the tablet are:

- Copy/paste/drag. Pretty helpful when you manipulate long expressions, or want to condense a bunch of scratch work.

- Relatedly: easy erase. When I used real paper, pencil was too low contrast, and “erasable pen” never worked well. So I used a real pen and just crossed tons of stuff out; ugly.

- Keep a decade of notes with me wherever I go. (And cloud backed up so I won’t lose them.)

- Infinite zoom and no page boundaries. Seems silly, but it’s really nice to write as big as I want without worrying about running out of room on the page.

- Text search of handwritten notes. Works surprisingly well.

- Easily switch to different colors. 99% of the time I only use 2 or 3, but I find it helpful to visual distinguish the main argument/computation from “side commentary”.