[aithrowaway1987]

I learn best via writing things out by hand in my own words, and almost never read the notes afterwards. I am also profoundly disorganized :) Before I got a reMarkable I had accumulated (and thrown out) dozens of bulky paper notebooks. Now those are all digital.

Despite reMarkable's marketing around high-quality hand-drawn professional notes, I suspect crappy "transient" notes to aid memory and mental organization are the most common use case. For me it's really a thinking device rather than a writing device.

If I actually need to reference or organize my notes I will type something out in emacs.

[jamespo]

This is spot on, and my main use case as well.

However it would be good if it OCR'ed in the background and created a searchable index.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-ha...