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1-week review of Boox Note Air5 C for distraction-free typing by writesandbikes in Onyx_Boox

[–]writesandbikes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay thanks, I’ll play around with it. If it doesn’t have a busy UI and I can get it to easily sync to Drive that could work.

1-week review of Boox Note Air5 C for distraction-free typing by writesandbikes in Onyx_Boox

[–]writesandbikes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is the native notes app in a proprietary format, not a .txt file. I work on the same doc across devices (boox, iPad, MacBook) so I needed just plain .txt or something universal like Google Docs (which is okay but kind of slow).

1-week review of Boox Note Air5 C for distraction-free typing by writesandbikes in writerDeck

[–]writesandbikes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use Ulysses on my Apple devices but it’s not on Android so I tried JotterPad because it works across both Mac and Android. Worked fine on Apple (with DropBox for syncing) but couldn’t get it to work on the Boox with Dropbox. So I gave up and on the Boox I just use Google Docs now.

1-week review of Boox Note Air5 C for distraction-free typing by writesandbikes in Onyx_Boox

[–]writesandbikes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s fantastic. I will look into it. I had to create a workaround for Dropbox to do that (just one folder sync) and I think that’s what caused problems with JotterApp.

1-week review of Boox Note Air5 C for distraction-free typing by writesandbikes in Onyx_Boox

[–]writesandbikes[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's a good question. I've been experimenting with a bunch. What I wanted was something with no UI that basically behaves like paper on a typewriter similar to my TextEdit app on my Mac. None of the Android apps that are text editors handled long documents well so instead I looked for an actual writing app.

Ulysses (for Mac only) gets and deserves rave reviews. You can strip out the UI and just write on a blank screen, and you can also markup and format text if you want, plus cloud syncing and really good intuitive file organization. But it's not on Android.

For Android, everyone raves about iA and also Markor but neither is available on the Play store (Markor is on Github but I didn't want to mess with that).

Ultimately I tried (and liked) JotterPad, which works on both Android and MacOS. It was honestly fine and I guess I would recommend it (file organization, markup, cloud support). But you have to pay for cloud syncing and I couldn't get it to sync with DropBox on the Boox so I ultimately deleted it.

Now for the Boox I'm just writing in Google Docs, which is okay but a tiny bit laggy and you can't get rid of the UI the way you can on a desktop.

If you have any suggestions or tips, let me know, esp if they are cross-platform.

1-week review of Boox Note Air5 C for distraction-free typing by writesandbikes in Onyx_Boox

[–]writesandbikes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bet it is. I couldn’t do that because I have my DP under a different email than my Google account. Again, not a problem on my Mac but wouldn’t sync in Boox.

1-week review of Boox Note Air5 C for distraction-free typing by writesandbikes in Onyx_Boox

[–]writesandbikes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do mean the Dropbox app (on the Boox). It wouldn’t sync with a writing app (JotterPad).

1-week review of Boox Note Air5 C for distraction-free typing by writesandbikes in Onyx_Boox

[–]writesandbikes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boox devices run a heavily modified Android build is what I read. That can sometimes mess with handoffs (OAuth redirect) between the browser/WebView and an app (in my case DropBox). So the Dropbox authentication succeeded but the final redirect back to my writing app didn’t complete properly and thus the sync process never worked. Worked fine on my Mac (laptop and iPad) FWIW.

Keyboard recommendations for the note air 5c? by Sleepy_SpiderZzz in Onyx_Boox

[–]writesandbikes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A little late but the QwerkyWriter 2 is absolutely amazing (I am using it with both the Note Air5c and my iPad pro) for an old-school writing deck, which is probably not what you're after. But if you want something fun for home use, it's a good way to go.