Have been experimenting with this unusual Dasung portable e-ink display for park working sessions. It's surprisingly responsive—plenty good enough for writing, coding, studying. HDMI driven, weighs about 1.5lbs, sits in front of my normal display (& uses much less power, ofc).
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Working on the reMarkable is pretty nice, but it makes me feel so passive. The device makes it so hard to write while I read, to jump around, to synthesize—I'd rather use paper most of the time.
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Part of the trouble, I guess, is that this use case is too niche to get a really thoroughly-developed software stack. So things like the Kindle, reMarkable, Boox etc feel awfully "unserious" about workflows compared to my laptop. It's nice to just use my "full" setup in the park.
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Downsides: this display is really quite expensive, fairly bulky, requires some fiddling to get the contrast right, obviously only works well for some types of work.
Not sure if I'll keep it… but… gotta chase those lux!! 🌞🌞🌈
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Correction: on the MacBook Pro, using an external display requires the discrete graphics card, so even though the e-ink display uses less power than the internal LCD with backlight, the net power performance is somewhat worse (but still fine for an afternoon).
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Amusing update: the M1 Macs don't have discrete graphics, so the battery performance with the e-ink display is just silly. I've been out here writing for an hour and a half, and I'm at… 99% battery?! I'll run out of batteries long before this thing does.
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Oh, but (noting in case others encounter this) for whatever reason, the built-in HDMI port doesn't work with the Paperlike, produces weird noisy artifacts. But with my HDMI->USB-C adapter it's fine.
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That's what gets me about e-readers too. I like annotating + handwriting and manipulating the text, but ugh, they seem solely and utterly designed around light consumption with no regard to active consumption (or any creation at all)
Even the "designed for writing notes" isn't
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Boox has been improving gradually. I have a 13.3" Max Lumi that I use for reading and anotating A4 pdfs, splitscreen reading and note taking, or just note taking. If there was more demand for productivity eink devices, competition would result in better solutions.
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