alt Hacker NewsWhat is the Nomad like? What were your concerns when selecting an epaper notebook? Which alternatives did you rule out and why?
Sorry, just long wanted to get one but the good ones are expensive and I don't want to experiment with that kind of money.
I’m loving the Nomad. I’d buy it again if I lost or broke it.
The Remarkable Move finally pushed me over the edge to trying an epaper device. I bought it, used it, and sent it back[0]. In short, the hardware was great, but the software’s awful. Remember how iOS use to be skeuomorphic not just in appearance but in behavior, like you could only turn one Calendar page at a time because that’s that it’s like to navigate a paper calendar? Move’s software’s like that, with a thousand grating limitations because “that’s now notebooks work”. Can you add a dictionary to the ebook reader? No, because real books don’t have dictionaries! My gut instinct is that they don’t have the engineering resources to implement new features and that’s the excuse they give.
Supernote goes the opposite direction. Its software is leagues better for navigating within books. Like, circle some text on the page, tap an icon to make that a header, and now it appears in the doc’s table of contents. Tap it there and you’ll jump right to it. You can link to other docs. It’s closer to “a book… but better”.
0: https://honeypot.net/2025/10/24/why-im-returning-the-remarka...