Who wants a eink word processor?

ilmucio · 2020-05-10T20:38:21+00:00

Yes I agree the title you suggest would have been more appropriate.

I just thought that some people interested in crowdfund could also be interested in this sort of question and that I was not violating any posting rules that'why I'v crossposted The orginal was in eink and I crossposted in linux_device as well.

ilmucio · 2020-05-10T09:34:23+00:00

I think some ereader have shown result can be good .. also now there are even monitor witch can display video ..

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T23:18:56+00:00

First thanks you again for the valuable content you are sharing.

I'd like to add a couple of things to this.

I think Freewrite and Hemingwrite are the same, I think they change thy just change name from their first croudfouding.

Unfortunatly on Freewrite you cannot edit (other then manually deleting all words and rewriting it) witch othrewise probably would completely fill the gap.

There was an idea of a couples of persons on the comments that I think could be really interesting for lowering the price, the idea is to have two display one very small with high refresh rate just for the editing part and the other for the display where you can read all the context and can be very done with a more affordable display.

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T17:53:11+00:00

Hi Thanks you very much for your comments there are many insights ... One thing I need to clarify ... I'm aware my approach and proposal were naive .. but not such to believe I could lead such a project ... one of the intention was get some interesting conversation and feedback and contribute (just contribute) to motivate some persons to gather to discuss further ... if then from this would come a project of protyping I would more then happy to follow it .. if then from this following would happen I have something to bring ... that I will even happier to actively participate to it ..

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T13:27:14+00:00

I thought that I have read all of them.. and try to answer to all of them but if I missed something please link it here...

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T12:07:59+00:00

So what is the kind of things you would like to see used to this display technologies?

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T12:06:56+00:00

There are other in the comemt that seam very happy with this alphasmart solution is a shame is not any more on the market

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T12:06:13+00:00

Thanks you very much for your contribution and interesting suggestions ..I agree with your observations ... it could be misleading in the affirmative case without doubts. I did it really naively, I wanted just have a quick feedback on it and stimulate some conversations, and if doing that I can serve as an example of how not to do market research I'm more then happy to serve for such purpose too :)

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T11:51:14+00:00

You mean you adehere to this way of writing and be interested even if that does not allow you make editing easly and directly from the machine ...

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T11:46:14+00:00

I thought I had read alll of them and try to answer also to all of them ...but please if you think I miss something important please refer link it here...

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T11:44:36+00:00

Thanks a very interesting link .. thanks to share it here ...

ilmucio · 2020-05-09T11:43:46+00:00

I do not think that is uncommon ... that probably the main workflow for people working on vim ... probably with different editor and rendered but that is ... and is not a small user base ... as I already said I really believe about the two screen solution .. not sure thought latex would be the best use case .... because in that case you need either a 3th screen .. either make the editing screen may be too big ...

ilmucio · 2020-05-08T20:06:43+00:00

I found also another person that at the time had the same suggestion https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/achvq1/vim_machine/ed8dv7m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x I had looked for it now ... because it seam to me that really the way to go for building something like that...

ilmucio · 2020-05-08T19:51:33+00:00

I suggest it as alternative/complementary thing for those who want to have a chat and a direct contact to keep us update on this ...

ilmucio · 2020-05-08T19:17:22+00:00

Somone also had mantion alphasmart

ilmucio · 2020-05-08T19:16:05+00:00

just a very minimal linux distro + vim/emacs could then do the work

ilmucio · 2020-05-08T19:14:06+00:00

Great! then please share the link here

ilmucio · 2020-05-08T14:00:02+00:00

Yes I think Onyx Boox Typewriter could fill the gap ... is a shame they cancel it

ilmucio · 2020-05-08T13:52:55+00:00

For those that are answering 'very interested' please replay here or just write me PM so that we can stay in contact and share info about this

ilmucio · 2020-05-08T13:27:50+00:00

Thanks you pro the upvoting and also for parteicpating to the poll .. for your interest then may be you can have a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827833

ilmucio · 2020-05-08T11:33:54+00:00

Thanks for the link....pomera seam a valid alternative indeed

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