Anyone use Boox?

Knowledge management
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Does anyone use a Boox device? I bought one to try (only way to know if the writing “feel” is good is to actually use it), and Iso far I’m kind of ambivalent about it. The writing is great, but the learning curve for the UI is steep and, more importantly, its text recognition for handwriting has been pretty terrible so far.

I only have so long to try this out before I decide whether to keep it or return it, so I’m hoping someone else’s experience might help with the learning curve. Anyone have an effective, efficient, cost-effective way to take notes on this and then get them, transcribed, into Obsidian, given the poor quality of the built-in handwriting recognition?

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Identical problem to yours: Boox handwriting recognition is poor. I eventually went with a Rocketbook reuseable paper notebook https://getrocketbook.com/

You write on paper which can be wiped clean using a Frixion pen. Text is scanned using the phone app, which you can then extract as a pdf or have your handwriting converted to text. Accuracy is astonishingly good! I have a RocketbookPDF folder in my vault, which is set as a ‘destination’ in the Rocketbook app.

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I’ve seen people mention using them on the Obsidian Discord. Searching “Boox” here and there might turn up something useful.