3/2/2024 0 Comments Onyx boox note air vs nova air![]() I’ve been playing with it for a couple of days now and it’s delightful.Ĭheck out the full video review at to see all the various features in action: TL DR: The ONYX BOOX Note Air (which I shall refer to hereafter as just the Note Air) looked like exactly what I was after, and, well, it’s been a rough couple of weeks and buying gadgets is one of my coping mechanisms, so I ordered one from Amazon. Last week, after a particularly bright and sunny day which I spent indoors, with the curtains drawn, because I had work do to and every screen I own is so super-shiny and reflective, I asked on Twitter for any recommendations for an e-ink device that supported an external keyboard, and Scott Hanselman pointed me to a review he’d just done comparing the reMarkable 2, the ONYX BOOX Note Air and the ONYX BOOX Nova 3. Ditto the reMarkable – although there’s an active hacker community working on extending the capabilities of those devices, they’re still a closed platform and for me that’s a deal-breaker. They run an “experimental” web browser that’s just about good enough to sign in to airport Wi-Fi if you’re patient, but there’s no filesystem access, no app store, no way to connect an external keyboard or install your favourite writing app. I’ve owned every generation of Kindle, and loved them all dearly, but they’re closed devices. (I recall reading that Neal Stephenson wrote all 2,600 pages of the Baroque Cycle longhand, using a fountain pen, and I get carpal tunnel syndrome just thinking about that.) I own many pencils, and an embarrassing collection of notepads, sketch pads and jotters, but when it comes to getting words out of my head and onto a page, give me a QWERTY keyboard every time. But I’m one of those people who vastly prefers typing to handwriting. ![]() There are some wonderful handwriting devices out there – I tried out a reMarkable tablet a few years ago and was blown away by how good the UX was. Something that’s digital, connected, lightweight, syncs to the cloud - but with an e-ink display I can use outdoors, in bright sunlight, and that doesn’t feel like using a computer. For a long while, I’ve been looking for something that does for writing what Kindle does for reading. ![]() Maybe the odd heading or bullet list, but really it’s just getting a few thousand words out of my head and into an Evernote document, where I can review, edit, and eventually do something useful with them. Conference talks, blog posts, articles, song lyrics, training material – almost everything I do starts off as words. The ONYX BOOX Note Air: Android 10.0 on an E-Ink Tablet Posted by Dylan Beattie on
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