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Originally Posted by Quoth
No, not like Apple pencil, or Surface Pen or a Wacom stylus.
The note taking eink gadgets have a digitiser. A dumb stylus on a touch screen is poor resolution. The Advanced notebook (Sage, Elipsa) has handwriting recognition using Nebo. The stylus is electronics based.
Actually the Elipsa/Sage annotation is still best with touch and onscreen keyboard. The stylus input is useless for that as you can't export text annotation. I only used the stylus annotation on some PDF manuals to add additional info to read on the Elipsa, though if you copy back the PDF it might have the annotations. That doesn't work with real ebooks (epub).
The Sage Advanced Notebooks can replace taking text notes on a phone or a paper notebook. You can do limited maths formula, visio style shapes and free form sketch as well as handwriting to text. A docx export has all of it and txt export is plain text with only converted text.
The Notebooks won't work with a keyboard. The notes window on Annotation will work with BT external or onscreen touch keys, but not with stylus.
So for - epub use like any Kobo with no Stylus. Stylus will scribble, but pointless
- PDF some ability to scribble on it. Most use on 10" Elipsa for manuals.
- Advance Notebook is a ewriter, but ONLY works with Stylus (but fast). Copy/Paste as yet useless.
- Basic Notebook is simply a multipage dumb sketch pad exported as png or PDF. Best avoided as Advanced Notebook can be used like this with images in docx.
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Thanks for the description of Kobo functionality. A dumb stylus has its uses as a fingertip substitute, keeps fingerprints off the screen, and that’s what I had in mind, not handwriting.
I’ve used Nebo on iPad a little, of course now HWR is built in to iPadOS now so there’s no need for it. I’ve yet to get very comfortable with it.
I’m not much for taking notes or using notebook apps, and don’t have need to mark up PDFs. iPad is better at this stuff in any case, so devices like this don’t have any appeal for me.