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Originally Posted by lensmann
Or, depending on how easy switching is, I could keep handwritten notes in a notebook on the device rather than on the epub, which would make export possible. Am I right in thinking that the advanced notebook is based on MyScript's technology?
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Yes, MyScript's Nebo. It's more than the free app on iOS, but less than the paid iOS version. Perhaps the iPad can read Kobo Nebo files but not vice versa, I'm not sure. I don't have an iPad myself and no digitiser on my Android, so I don't personally have tablet Nebo. It makes more sense than the reMarkable or the Scribe, Kobo "buying in" highly regarded notes/conversion SW. I gave away my reMarkable and narrowly avoided buying a Scribe.
If you had opened a an Advanced Notebook as one of last 3 things and swipe down from the top in an ebook you are reading, then you can jump into the notebook. Then backup by "Export" (usually 1st time I press cancel and do it again or else it spins), and "swipe down" without exiting the Advanced Notebook and you can tap on the book you just jumped from. Be a good idea to text highlight a big chunk and type in a note number and then number your Advanced Notebook notes and use <book title-author>-notes as Notebook name.
Sadly there is a bug where newly added ebooks populate that list of three even though you never opened them.
I use plain text export unless I really want shapes, equations, check boxes, unconverted handwriting and sketches as well as converted text.
But if you do a lot of notes a BT Keyboard does work in epub/kepub annotation. It only allows entry of notebook names and page up/down in notebooks, which seems weird.
It feels like three products: 1. Epub/kepub reader, 2. PDF viewer (both catalogued in My Books and work with search) and 3. Completely separate Notebook system. The Basic Notebook seems pointless. You can't change your mind on type, so best to only use Advanced. You can still have handwriting you don't convert and free-form sketches anyway.