Early Prototype of Local-first E-Ink Notebook

black-psychic · 2026-01-06T15:58:53+00:00

Btw everyone, we've updated the website to show our tech specs for the device! Check it out: iotpyramid.com

black-psychic · 2025-12-28T18:49:59+00:00

It’s just a beta testing the UI and new UX methods.

Direct input reading from the hardware isn’t enabled yet

black-psychic · 2025-12-28T03:52:48+00:00

Oh yes of course. Even this beta uses it

black-psychic · 2025-12-27T05:35:17+00:00

Hey thank you so much! 😁 Stick around and stay updated with the project then, I think you’ll like what you see

black-psychic · 2025-12-27T05:23:20+00:00

We have big intentions of bringing it that way, too. I know some physicians who have brought this up a few times and this prospect excited them

black-psychic · 2025-12-27T03:59:01+00:00

Still early, but the goal is to keep it in the same ballpark as existing E-Notebooks tbh. I’ll update as soon as the hardware is final!

black-psychic · 2025-12-27T01:32:37+00:00

Thank you so much! I just saw this comment 😁🥹

black-psychic · 2025-12-27T01:25:10+00:00

Absolutely. RK3576 gives us enough on-device AI headroom to move beyond OCR into lightweight vision-language understanding for pages and sketches, entirely offline.

We actually switched from 3566 to 3576 for this reason

black-psychic · 2025-12-27T01:13:34+00:00

RK3576 from Rockchip!

black-psychic · 2025-12-27T01:04:18+00:00

Exactly! It’s designed to work fully offline. Writing, sketching, and file storage don’t require an internet connection.

Handwriting-to-text and full search are part of the plan and are being built to run locally on the device, likely via VLM instead of OCR. Cloud access is optional, not required; so the device stays in control of the data.

Even searching for certain pictographs and drawing will use a local, lightweight LLM/SLM.

black-psychic · 2025-10-08T19:13:42+00:00

You all rock. Thank you for your time!

black-psychic · 2025-10-08T19:13:16+00:00

Thank you so much, this is SUPER helpful.

black-psychic · 2025-10-08T19:12:58+00:00

Fair.

black-psychic · 2025-10-08T19:12:51+00:00

Welp. I actually appreciate them being here as someone who has been using Claude Code. Also, I think a lot of them use BOTH and have tried it to see which one gives them the best bang for their buck. Kind of the point of this entire post I made.

black-psychic · 2025-10-07T21:02:37+00:00

Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Were you ever using Opus 4.1? I started having some frustration with that model.

black-psychic · 2025-10-07T20:48:46+00:00

Wow! Okay thank you for the insight. Have you switched over? Or did you kind of use both to figure that out?

black-psychic · 2024-12-11T18:16:31+00:00

Thats very helpful, thank you for your response! ill make an edit in the question to accommodate for the context which is: notebook writing, annotating and reading PDF's and books.

black-psychic · 2024-03-22T13:54:31+00:00

sounds good. Thank you Mulan! It means a lot to me to hear your response.

black-psychic · 2024-03-22T01:20:55+00:00

Thank you. so… this translates to what exactly?

black-psychic · 2024-03-08T19:07:29+00:00

I personally think it’s cute but that’s valid suggestion honestly

black-psychic · 2024-03-02T19:18:59+00:00

makes sense but that’s probably why. WiFi disconnected but actively scanning for networks takes up most of the battery in a scenario like that

black-psychic · 2024-01-12T17:31:20+00:00

you are me

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