I love handwritten notes. I don't love writing notes on paper. It's just too messy. Even though I romanticize filling notebooks with ideas, scribbles, and everything that goes through my mind, I always arrive at the unfortunate conclusion that it's just too much of a mess to be useful to me.

So I went down the rabbit hole of e-ink tablets.

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My goal was to find a perfect digital notepad with:

  • A good writing experience (pen feel, latency, writing tools)
  • A good and easy-to-navigate interface
  • Focus. No clutter, no weirdness
  • Beautiful hardware, bonus points if it's pocketable
  • A backlight
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