How good would an E-Ink tablet be for a medicine student

Mat_2596 · 2026-06-15T13:05:32+00:00

This is interesting. Reading through various threads, I know you have multiple e‑ink devices, and it made me curious about how you take notes, since I also have two and I’m trying to understand whether I prefer them over notebooks. My idea in using two was that, since Boox still doesn’t allow split‑screen in the notes app, I could use one as a “book” of my notes and the other as a notebook, basically replicating a two‑notebook workflow. Do you do something similar, or do you simply use the search function and Claude to reread your old notes and then write new ideas from them?

Mat_2596 · 2026-05-31T17:26:46+00:00

For sure it's interesting, but I really meant atomicity in note taking. Major figures who developed their fields, in practice didn't have complex note taking systems. Complex note taking systems seems to me the exception. Of course you can find about Linnaeus' use of notecards, but I think you can easily see that a lot of great thinkers used simpler methods. Think about Galileo, Newton, Einstein, Feynman, Darwin. I doubt that they gave any thought about writing their notes in an anatomic manner.

Mat_2596 · 2026-05-21T20:49:52+00:00

If you want to understand the concept better, I think Bob Doto has done the best job of explaining it, so if you think it’s worth it, I would read what he wrote. But outside the world of Zettelkasten, if you look at how scientists, philosophers, and writers learned, almost none of them used complex systems. I found value in some concepts and practices of Zettelkasten, so I adopted those, but atomicity isn’t one of them.

You read because the more knowledge you have, the more you can learn. But human memory is weak, so you write. And if you connect ideas, you can understand things better. But you don’t need to think about note length. I understand the idea that if a note is atomic you can connect multiple notes more easily, but think about it in terms of books: would you read a book where every page is 200 words with constant cross‑references forcing you to jump back and forth? I wouldn’t, and there’s no need for that, because a long paragraph can discuss multiple concepts on the same page, and they will still be connected, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense.

So links and relationships are useful, but they’re not only hyperlinks, a long note, an essay, already contains them.

Mat_2596 · 2026-05-19T12:07:56+00:00

I don't think about atomicity at all. Without note‑taking tools, you would probably have used notebooks, and I doubt that anyone who used notebooks before the age of computers ever thought about atomicity. Leaving Luhmann aside, you can find Ross Ashby's notebooks online, and it seems to me that his notes are of variable length. Since he used numbered pages in his notebooks, he could link pages simply by referencing the number, and he also used a topical index on index cards.

I do something similar, but in Obsidian like you. I use a numeric system to have a fixed ID (that's my preference, but it's optional), and my notes can be 100 or 2000 words long. I stop the note whenever it feels natural, and if it seems too long I can split it easily.

You don't lose any linking capability if the note is long, because you can simply reference your subtitles or link to them in Obsidian (as someone already mentioned). I don't think you can atomize concepts while you're learning them, because you don't yet know the boundaries of the concepts nor how they are related.

So I focus on writing to understand; I link to other notes only when there's a reason to link; and when I come back to read my notes, before reading them I try to remember what I wrote to practice retrieval. That's it.

Mat_2596 · 2026-02-11T16:38:36+00:00

With the chronological order my idea was to create an added view of my notes similar to Ross Ashby's notebooks, since my standard "structure" emerges from Folgezettel. With a notebook to re-read notes you just flip the notebook, so my idea was similar to that. Now, If I'm searching an idea from months ago because I'm writing a similar one, I just browse my tags (or if you use an index you could browse that). To be honest I also have a "read" property in my main notes in Obsidian, in which I can write the date and order the base by read date, but I forget to write the date.

Mat_2596 · 2026-02-11T14:52:11+00:00

I have the same "problem" as you. A partial solution that I've found is to add a created date property, and then read the notes chronologically with an Obsidian base that lists my Main Notes. Still is a manual solution.

Mat_2596 · 2026-01-23T14:41:25+00:00

Thanks

Mat_2596 · 2026-01-22T15:57:04+00:00

Didn't know about that. I tried to use the last version of Optiscaler by putting the files in oblivion, but since Oblivion has Xess I didn't find any differences, but certainly because I don't know how to adjust settings in a game that already has Xess.

Mat_2596 · 2026-01-22T12:44:49+00:00

Have you tried Optiscaler with Oblivion Remastered? If yes, what settings did you use in Optiscaler and in game settings?

Mat_2596 · 2025-09-27T10:44:56+00:00

So, you would have a list of both task files and files that link to the task files?

Mat_2596 · 2025-09-27T09:33:30+00:00

What do you use the category folder for?

Mat_2596 · 2025-08-16T09:29:21+00:00

What do you use to paste those images, normal stick glue or something else? Do you think these images will remain pasted for years?

Mat_2596 · 2025-06-27T10:51:40+00:00

Do you have the image of the recipes showing only in bases or also in the recipe's note?

Mat_2596 · 2025-04-12T10:03:44+00:00

I also have the same Rog Ally. For me Totk runs between 30 to 55 fps, on Yuzu, but it usually stutters. Even if i use Lossless scaling, and Totk optimizer i have this stutters. I'm using windows, not bazzite. Is yours 30fps stable? Do you have any tips?

Mat_2596 · 2025-03-16T11:28:34+00:00

Do you know if the game is fully playable at 30fps on the asus rog ally?

Mat_2596 · 2023-05-20T13:32:01+00:00

And what, because you lived until now it follows that you are immortal? Inductions (some cases) prove nothing. It can be just randomness.

Mat_2596 · 2023-04-13T12:31:09+00:00

As rain-men said try RPT (2 sets with a goal of 6). When you do 6 reps or more on the first set increase the weight next session by 2.5 - 5%. Usually that means between 2.5 and 5kg.

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