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Quoth · 08-05-2022, 05:34 AM

A BT keyboard works on the Sage and Elipsa, but only when the touch Keyboard might work, so not in the Notebooks, only epub Annotation.

You could make ebooks with headings, subjects, days of the week etc and annotate them.

I have a decent text editor on an Android eink (Boyue Mars, now Meebook P78) using a good BT keyboard, Jota. It's not great. Handwriting recognition on the Sage is better (I use a 3rd party "Adrawpen" model for a Microsoft Surface as it's cheaper than the kobo pen. Performs identically to the Kobo pen that came with my Elipsa).

The problem is scrolling and eink. I've never found a Wordprocessor or text editor that pages. They all treat screens like 1928 teletypes, endless paper roll. Books were invented over 2000 years ago (Codex vs Scroll).

Something more like Jota, Nano or Joe would be better than vi or emacs. But really the Advanced Notebook on Sage (will only use BT keyboard to navigate!) with handwriting recognition, export to docx or txt is far better.

I also have Jota on 10" LCD tablet and all my phones. I don't use it since getting the Sage unless I'm in a shop or such with only the phone.

08-05-2022, 05:34 AM	#2
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,141 Karma: 105211945 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	A BT keyboard works on the Sage and Elipsa, but only when the touch Keyboard might work, so not in the Notebooks, only epub Annotation. You could make ebooks with headings, subjects, days of the week etc and annotate them. I have a decent text editor on an Android eink (Boyue Mars, now Meebook P78) using a good BT keyboard, Jota. It's not great. Handwriting recognition on the Sage is better (I use a 3rd party "Adrawpen" model for a Microsoft Surface as it's cheaper than the kobo pen. Performs identically to the Kobo pen that came with my Elipsa). The problem is scrolling and eink. I've never found a Wordprocessor or text editor that pages. They all treat screens like 1928 teletypes, endless paper roll. Books were invented over 2000 years ago (Codex vs Scroll). Something more like Jota, Nano or Joe would be better than vi or emacs. But really the Advanced Notebook on Sage (will only use BT keyboard to navigate!) with handwriting recognition, export to docx or txt is far better. I also have Jota on 10" LCD tablet and all my phones. I don't use it since getting the Sage unless I'm in a shop or such with only the phone.