I hand-write notes extensively. The biggest thing I'd like to do is be able to search through a 'notebook' to find areas that I tag. If I write something important on paper, I'll put a star next to it. If I have a question, I write a question mark and circle it, and I circle the letter "A" near action items I'll need to push to a to-do list at the end of my writing session or meeting.
For example:
bla bla bla
(A) ask about my use case today
bla bla bla
I'd need to be able to search through a document for markers like these ^ and either see them in one place, or be able to jump through them from one to the next. They don't have to resemble what I currently draw in my paper notebook, just that functionality.
Is the remarkable able to do something like this? I see that the a5x is able to do this kind of stuff, but the a5x is extremely expensive to get my hands on in Canada at retail.
Thanks!
Yeah. I do a few different things. I do sometimes "tag" with a notation in the left margin but the digital format allows for other techniques. One example- I arrived at using a single "document" per week, and then using a "pattern" of pages within a document for structure. Each day I create two or three pages, the first for the start of unstructured notes, then one or two distinct summary pages, depending on the work.
When writing unstructured notes, when getting to the end of a page, it is easy to insert a new page to continue the notes. But since the summary pages immediately follow the current unstructured page, I can also just flip ahead one or two pages to capture something specific on the appropriate summary page, when it comes up, and then flip back to continue notes.
I also keep a weekly summary-type page as the "last" page in the document, and it is easy to jump ahead there as well.
I used to use Levenger Circa notebooks and would add and remove and move pages around, but digitally it is much more fluid.
Hope that makes sense- it just an example of the sort of behavior mnemonics that are available with a digital tool. I sort of had to go through the process of trial and error to understand how my brain wanted to structure things given these new affordances. And different things work for different people.
Something that a lot of people like on the RM and I don't are page scaling and scrolling. If I could turn them off, I would, but there does not seem to be a way to. And a lot of people find them valuable.