Digital note-taking devices that run yank are all the rage right now and ten point three inches seemed to be the golden standard of
2018-2019
There are a bunch of companies trying to get on board with this. Some are fundraising some are using crowdfunding
Platforms they're doing whatever they can to be a part of it today
We're gonna look at the top five best note-taking devices on the market
Coming in at number five is the Onyx books line of devices
Probably the most confusing line because they have about nine devices that take notes in their lineup
so confusing that is that we actually had a separate video on this they do have a wide array of ways to change your
writing experience
but there is a little bit of a noticeable lag when you write and
It gets a little confusing sometimes because they have so many different devices
Including plastic based displays and glass based displays and actually not all the Pens work on
all the displays for testing purposes
We have a plastic based display in a glass based display and we have realized that
In our testing the Wacom pens work perfectly fine as do the Samsung pens
But when it comes to a more advanced level of Wacom, it doesn't actually work
across all the lines of devices the supernote pen being the most recent
Release of Wacom pen. So it's this lack of cross compatibility and pen support that puts it in fifth place
Just shy of number three is the boyyou line of devices coming in in our fourth spot. This includes the brand-new Aleta
the muses and the me, Maas
Although this device has very good speed and a very very good handwriting text recognition software
That is in fact fully multilingual you can see we just typed out two different languages there
It falls a little bit short when it comes to the actual writing
experience and this is because they went from the me mess to the Alita and this is actually a step down in terms of the
Writing feel there's almost no resistance on the screen anymore
And it's very iPad tablet esque now. It's super smooth
You don't get any resistance or torque and you lose that pen to paper feel so it just feels like you're writing on a tablet
although it does have
extremely good cross compatibility with almost every stylus on the market number three
the remarkable
Going by only one name for its make and model. The screen is very nice
And you do get with certain tools you get this kind of
rough pencil to paper kind of graphite
look
They say it's the closest thing to paper but we have found a couple other devices that are a little bit closer
The pen itself is actually not very good. In fact, they don't have a secondary button or an eraser
In fact, the eraser is taken up by a spare nib chamber and although that is cool. There's a lack of functionality
So actually the nib that is the most impressive part of the pen
They give you 10 to 12
Replacement nibs in the Box depending on the pen you get so the nib itself is a kind of graphite carbon nib
And it does wear out pretty quickly, but it offers a decent writing experience, but the Pens can get very expensive
there's 65 to
$100 USD to replace and they do things like having a little click at the back that has it serves no
functionality and even on the hundred dollar premium pen
There's no secondary button or eraser on it and although it does have some decent ways to change your writing experience
it's over reliance on the computer kind of just doesn't do it for us the whole thing about syncing your software to transfer data and
the lack of other available
functions with this device sets it at number three, although their cross compatibility is
some of the best
Number two the super note by rata
This easily has one of the best latency out of any device and the most pressure sensitivity
customization out of any device we have ever used has
4096 levels of pressure sensitivity and it absolutely shows making
microscopic lines all the way to a thick bleed
these guys are actually the odd bunch out because they're not running Android and
They have a lot of gesture support on their device. So they have hidden menus. Hidden refreshes side bars that pop out
It's actually really cool. They even have their own little accessory rail on the back of the device
We can put cases and stands and everything
These guys also employ a rubber screen protector from factory that goes corner to corner that it you can't even really tell it's on there
But it gives you an amazing writing feel and you pair that with the proprietary
Wacom stylus made in Japan made out of metal and it's actually quite heavy this offers
easily the number two best writing experience out of any
Note-taking device on the market the included super note pen
the Samsung pen and
the OEM Wacom pen all check
Before we get to our number one spot we want to give an honorable mention to a company that came out of nowhere in
2019 and that is the whiskey EE right?
Epad now this thing with its Decca core processor dual SIM card slot stereo speaker
Ten point three inch Android open operating system device you'd think it would be a force to be reckoned with
But the fact is that you can't even really take notes on it without turning on a2 mode and in doing so
You actually defeat the purpose of taking notes because the quality is so reduced
you also have a phone operating system that makes everything kind of just
Small and blown up and everything's kind of washed out plagued with software issues tons of bugs
Terrible battery and a note-taking software that you can't even used to take notes
We found devices that have single core processors that are faster than this and with a ten core processor
We would have figured you could but with all of these cons. We really couldn't place it in our top five and
Number one goes to the Sony DP TCP one
RP one
we're not including the s one in this because we just don't feel it's as good as this there are so many reasons to put
This in tenth place in the market it it's running Android, but you can't install apps. It doesn't have a glow light
It has no pressure sensitivity. You can only read one file format
You can't even look at images. This thing is heavily restricted
You can't even connect to Wi-Fi if you were to go to Starbucks or McDonald's or any open Wi-Fi source
The amount of ways you can change your documents is next to none. There's so many reasons
I would give this last place including the stylus needs to be charged
Constantly because if it runs out of batteries, you can't use your device and there's no loop either
It just has this magnetic snap that falls off ever so easily. It's also very expensive
But the writing experience is just that good
We in the office have never seen a writing experience. So crisp so sharp
so responsive and so
paper like that is the thing above anything else if it wasn't for the fact that this is so
Identical to writing on a piece of paper on say like a hard marble tabletop
this would we would have given it to the supernote now here is the problem with this device is that
Asides from all the other cons. This device is very expensive because the stylus is very expensive depending on where you live
this can be upwards of a hundred and sixty dollars to replace as I said it needs to be charged at the back and
The tips can be very expensive as well because they are graphite and they do wear down
This one's already at a little angle
but this one besides all the cons takes the number one spot for the
note-taking devices in terms of stylus support
There is virtually none the Super note and the Wacom do not work only the one that is included with the device
Currently as of June
2019 these are your only choices. These are the five companies that handle
Note-taking on digital e-ink now there are other things like the Samsung devices and the Apple devices that do note-taking as well
But they're not technically e ink and they're tablets
So if you do want something you can't really go wrong with any of these whether it's complete open Android
Or a closed off Garden there will be something for everyone
So I hope this helped you make a decision for good ereader comm and a top-five wrap-up of the five
Note-taking e ink devices. This is Peter