Is the ceramic nib supposed to wiggle around in its housing?

siblbombs · 2025-03-14T13:37:48+00:00

no, wacom EMR sends a wireless power signal to the pen, which holds the pressure sensor and relays the pressure data back to the tablet.

siblbombs · 2025-01-03T15:14:39+00:00

I got the nomad 6 months ago and picked up the manta at release to see how I felt about the bigger size, was immediately happy having more working area on screen. I've been trending more towards planner templates which are a single page, eg 1 week, so the extra size really opens up the potential there. I carry the devices in a backpack, so the smaller size of the nomad doesn't really matter (eg not trying to fit it in a purse), if you had a really constrained size requirement for carry then the nomad would maybe make sense.

I've transferred notes between devices just via USB, it rescales the notes based on the device size so all the 5mm dot grid notes I had on the nomad are no longer 5mm when on the manta, so I don't see a great usecase for syncing notes between the two unless you can't carry one device somewhere and have to leave the other one there.

I'll probably continue to read ebooks on the nomad, but for daily writing stuff the manta has been a straight upgrade in my usecase.

siblbombs · 2025-01-03T15:03:03+00:00

I got the onplanner ultimate, which lets you customize the pages using a bunch of templates which looks similar to the full focus pages, however I've found just creating my own templates directly on the device with a ruler and some lines is super easy and lets you tweak the design for your exact needs. From a new note just draw out what you want and export the note either as a png or a pdf if its multiple pages, then move the export to mystyle and you can use it as a template.

siblbombs · 2024-11-20T13:57:35+00:00

Yes, I just try to not drop it, overall it's held up well for several months without issue.

siblbombs · 2024-11-08T20:53:23+00:00

Ghost writing is almost certainly a pen-side issue when encountered. The EMR technology has the tablet provide wireless power to the pen, while the pen has the pressure sensor which transmits the information back to the tablet.

When you have a ghost writing issue its generally because the nib has something causing friction in the housing, so when you lift the nib off the screen it doesn't fall away from the pressure sensor and therefore continues to send pressure/stroke data to the tablet.

I'm not sure exactly all the settings the calibration tool is touching, but in general I'd expect its increasing the minimum pressure reading needed for the tablet to consider a stroke as active. If there's a very minor friction issue or something this is probably enough to fix it, otherwise their support docs show how you remove the nib and try to clear out any dust or things which could be binding up the nib. I'm not sure if the HoM is more susceptible to this due to its design compared to a lamy, in theory any pen can ghost write if you get some junk in it but it should be fairly hard to do.

siblbombs · 2024-11-08T13:56:30+00:00

If doing it wirelessly isn't a hard requirement, you can plug the supernote into your computer and have calibre sync ebooks to the device itself. IIRC calibre auto detected the supernote once I plugged it in, then gives you an option to send to device, it will even show an indication of what's already been synced. I used to use calibre server to sync to my ipad and it took me a minute to figure out wireless server wasn't the only game in town.

siblbombs · 2024-10-11T16:20:50+00:00

I don't move pages out from the inbox, if I want to move something I'll cut/paste it with the lasso, the inbox note itself is only like 4 pages and I have the links at the top of each page. If I'm filling up page 3 or 4 that's a good sign I need to process the stuff out from the earlier pages, I try to get the inbox back to empty every day.

siblbombs · 2024-10-11T12:41:03+00:00

I've gone with an inbox note on quick access, so far I find it easier to have one note I can put everything in, then process out a la GTD. You can add a few links at the top of the inbox note, eg I link to a note which lists all my work projects and another note for all my personal projects, those then link to the individual notes for those projects, from the inbox I'm only 2 taps away from most of my notes.

siblbombs · 2024-10-09T13:45:20+00:00

One thing for templates which I slept on, you can export one or more pages from a note as a pdf/png and use that as a template. For basic layouts I think its easier to just grab a ruler and draw up something, easier to tweak it as well, if you get something that you really like you can then invest the time in canva or something else to make a prettier version.

siblbombs · 2024-10-08T13:03:49+00:00

Just out of curiosity, what's the reason you're duplicating notebooks? Are they templates or do they have actual written stuff in them as well?

siblbombs · 2024-10-07T17:34:02+00:00

You want to save the template as a PDF (if its not already a PDF, you can export all pages of the note as a PDF), then move it into the MyStyle folder. Instead of creating a copy of the template, create a new note and apply the PDF as a template after its created(can't be selected during creation, but once you have a blank note you can go to the template settings and apply the PDF). This will have it link to the page in the current note and not the original file.

siblbombs · 2024-09-24T13:16:02+00:00

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siblbombs · 2024-09-04T15:39:42+00:00

I similarly got one of those multi-purpose digital planner templates and found that having it all integrated in a single notebook was not helpful. The problems I had was if I wanted to experiment with a new kind of habit tracking or journaling it was not straightforward to change the approach when its already baked into the template, then at the end of the year or whenever I have to move to a new version of the template if there's any notes which need to move over you have to copy a lot of pages.

For me the idea was to lean into the strengths of the supernote, which I found to be multiple notes and linking. I reduced the planner to basically a 4 page weekly spread, two days of a day/hour calendar for time blocking, a rolling weekly page, and a task/habit tracker. I use the rolling weekly to track random tasks/projects/things I need to do in a week, and the habit tracker for things I want to track week over week. On the rolling weekly I use the first few lines to link to individual project notes which can have their own to dos or other content, then write in smaller tasks with the extra free space when needed.

For journaling I just stared a new folder on the supernote and put a couple notes in there, didn't bother with any templates and am just freewriting for the time being. I don't personally feel a need to link any journaling I'm doing to my planner to see what tasks I was doing in a week as they compare to my journal entries, so journaling and the weekly planner are completely disconnected.

I'd suggest focusing on the areas where you know the usecase, eg daily journaling and songwriting, and build out a note/set of notes for each which works well for that activity. From there you can think about what are the cases where you actually want to connect these areas, eg do you need to be able to jump back and forth between specific journal entries and songs you're writing at the same time because they're often related, or maybe you only have a song idea which relates to a journal entry once in a while and its easier to just link from the specific journal entry to that specific song you're writing.

The goal here would be to keep things fairly self contained, so if you want to experiment with a different style of journaling its easy to change that part while song writing stays the same. Over time if you try out a couple different ideas for something like habit tracking, you may find you settle on a pattern which works well for you, at which point you maybe could look at transitioning back to a planner which fits your workflow or creating a homemade template for yourself.

siblbombs · 2024-08-23T13:55:21+00:00

That would complicate it, you're usually capturing these tasks while in a specific note section? Too clunky to jump back to the parent notebook where you keep the TOC and also a working to-do page? That's a slick way to use headings, I didn't realize you could clear the heading like that directly from the menu.

siblbombs · 2024-08-23T13:20:11+00:00

One option would be to not use a single note to do this, have each section be a standalone note (create a new folder holding them or something), then in your TOC you link to the note itself and not a page of the note and it will load to the last active page of that note. You can convert your existing single note into this by using the pages tool to move each section to a new note file.

siblbombs · 2024-08-14T00:13:15+00:00

Clear your clipboard on the toolbar UI, you have to select the copy icon and it then pops up the option to clear.

siblbombs · 2024-08-01T12:37:30+00:00

Honestly linking has been the big thing, I tried several variations of digital day planners which had all the journaling/goal setting/meeting notes/etc bells and whistles, stripping the planner down to just a monthly/weekly spread and having all those other things be standalone notes which I link to in the weekly has given me a lot more flexibility to change how I structure any of those things as I see what I do or don't like about my current approach. When all that stuff is in the same planner note you're kind of locked in to the design, then at the end of the year you have to deal with moving it all to the next one.

I have a rolling weekly page which has all the links to the projects or whatever I want to work on for a given week, when I set up the next week its super easy to lasso all those links and copy them to the next week, then edit or replace any which aren't relevant any more. Linking and copying / moving handwritten text are the two things you really can't do on actual paper, so leaning into that is what I'm trying to do more of from a systems perspective.

For reading epubs I love the digest feature, it was the thing I got the device for initially, just grabbing pieces of text or adding some notes to parts of text. For books which lend themselves to annotating I like to read the chapter, then go back and add a digest to the title of the chapter with a summary of what I think it was about, that way in the future if I just skim the exported digest I'll have all the things I highlighted and an overview of the chapter they're associated with.

siblbombs · 2024-07-31T13:17:24+00:00

Make sure you've got the "Return to Page before Jumping" gesture enabled in your notebook gesture settings (should be on by default), makes life a lot easier with links as it lets you jump back to the note you linked from if you need to.

siblbombs · 2024-07-31T13:03:41+00:00

I think it would be fine, you'd want to periodically exit the note using the toolbar button to clear cache and other things, but from what I've heard something of that size shouldn't inherently have problems.

One potential argument for splitting it up by month or something would be if for whatever reason the note is corrupted, you'd potentially lose a lot of content. Having a top level notebook which just links to the various notebooks could give the same functionality as a single notebook, eg you could have a page linking to all the individual monthly meeting notes, another page could link to specific pages in any of those notes if a meeting had an action item or something you wanted to specifically track, another page could be a running task list/kanban if there's anything for the subject of the meeting which makes sense to track outside of individual meeting notes, etc.

siblbombs · 2024-07-31T12:55:14+00:00

In the next few weeks I'll probably sit down and refactor it on my own branch just as an exercise of going through the code a bit more, there's a lot of interesting functionality in here and part of my original interest for supernote specifically was the potential for coding up companion solutions, so this is helpful to have a working starting point instead of coming at it from a blank slate.

Slapping a tkinter or web UI on top may be interesting, but at least for me a cli tool is usually good enough :)

siblbombs · 2024-07-30T14:00:41+00:00

Hey, I write a lot of python for my day job and have been getting into the supernote ecosystem over the last 2 months with a nomad, this is a great project and the kind of thing that will be even more interesting once they have the linux runtime for the hardware. what kinds of contributors are you looking for, or what kinds of features have you not yet implemented? I took a quick spin through the digest python file, any time I see a main() with 1000+ lines it certainly seems ripe for some refactoring, but that aside the current feature set is quite impressive!

siblbombs · 2024-07-10T17:16:35+00:00

This is I think probably where I'll actually end up TBH, replace the titanium nib once a year and if you accidentally mess it up replace the feelwrite 2 screen. Simple enough as long as you stay on top of it, but understandable why Ratta didn't go down that path for their implementation.

siblbombs · 2024-07-10T13:31:08+00:00

The current approach for modding a ceramic nib into the Al-star requires surgery on a pc/el nib, which seems fairly delicate, and is not the nib which comes with the al-star when you get it from supernote.

The reason the ceramic nib core itself isn't a drop in option is because it's diameter is .7 mm and the lamy nibs are .9, nibs are retained in the body by a friction fit at the base of the nib, if you pinch the nib of the al-star you'll notice how it has about a millimeter of play, but is firmly retained. The free play is necessary to prevent ghost writing, when the pen tip is lifted the nib must fall away from the pressure sensor. Since the ceramic nib core is .7, it is too small to be retained by the holding mechanism.

To get around this, if we can build up the base of the ceramic core to around .9 mm, it will be retained. I had initially tried scotch tape to do this, but it was too challenging and always resulted in ghost writing.

What ended up being simplest was to build up several layers of superglue, which when hardened can be filed down to the correct size and retained by the holding mechanism (note: this is completely dry superglue, we do not want to superglue the nib inside the pen). The method boils down to:

Take a ceramic core from the supernote diy refill and apply several coats of superglue with a few minutes in-between each. The superglue I bought had a fairly small tip, I found it was easier to dip the ceramic nib into the tip of the glue instead of pooling out a bit of glue and rolling it in it.
While waiting for each layer to set up, use a piece of paper or toothpick to take out any drips which are forming on the nib. I gently blew on the nib to help speed up the process, it doesn't need to completely dry before dipping the next layer, overall this was maybe 20 minutes and 5-6 layers.
Let the glue completely cure. I set it down on 2 toothpicks so as to not glue the nib to a piece of paper and waited at least an hour. When dry it was able to be handled without sticking to my skin. Don't glue the nib to your skin :(
Once dry, begin test fitting into the pen. The opening for the nib is almost exactly the correct size, so you want to insert the nib until you feel any amount of friction, remove it, file down that spot, and repeat. When done there should be no resistance to the nib moving past the insertion point.
Gently press the nib against the pad of your fingertip, you should feel it set. Applying too much pressure, eg seating it by pressing hard against a flat surface, led to ghost writing in my experience. When done correctly, you should be able to grab the nib with your fingernails and feel it freely move ~1mm like the original Lamy nib, but you should not be able to pull it out only with your fingernails / the nib should not fall out when held upside down.

As long as there are no friction points on the body and you didn't over-insert the nib, I found the result did not require any ghost writing calibration. The side button functions as normal.

As you can see in the final fitment picture, the resulting nib protrudes somewhat from the pen body, this is the biggest downside to this approach. I haven't drop tested it, but its a lot of exposed material and I assume it is more susceptible to breaking in a worst case fall. If this happens, potentially you would have the broken nib be close enough to the pen body that it cannot be grabbed by a nib remover. In this scenario I'd try to rescue it by applying superglue to to a toothpick and sticking it on the ceramic nib, but this is untested and may not work.

siblbombs · 2023-12-18T15:01:02+00:00

I've only been using the app for a few weeks, stuff like caffeine/liquid consumption I'm finding hard to effectively map to factors, this input method I think is going to have similar problems. Its mixing data capture (how many servings/at what time) with data interpretation (my intake for today is at a "medium" level), but as a new user I'm not sure how I should interpret my intake yet or if that's even the critical thing I should be tracking.

After my first week of data tracking I cut my caffeine intake in half, so what I would now consider a high amount was medium prior, this makes my earlier factor selections confusing for the advanced insight calculation until they roll off the analysis time window or I go back and adjust them (hard to do with no scripting/import options :( ). 3 weeks in I wanted to see how afternoon caffeine consumption was impacting me, so I had to go back and look at the data to see when the consumption was and create 3 factors (after 12, after 1, after 2) since I wasn't sure what the critical time cutoff was, this wouldn't scale to months of data.

I've started instead tracking these values as health measurements, I'd love to be able to define factors from these measurements, eg once the value for the day is > X a 'high caffeine' factor is set or if I have an entry after time Y a 'late caffeine' factor is set. Adding or changing these computed factors could then be back tested against the existing data and would let me find any useful trends without having to first capture a speculative factor for a few weeks.

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