Partner had remarkable. I bought a scribe. Tried both side by side for a month.

Scribe lets you read your kindle books, draw on them, and write notes. Hard to get the notes off the device.

RM lets you sync automatically. The rest of their software is total junk (see App Store ratings). It was more glitchy. Marginally better writing. Monthly fee.

Both make exporting notes more difficult than it should be.

My current go to - paper and pen with chatgpt app on phone - snap a photo to extract my writing.

I kept the scribe for reading books - rarely use it over the kindle app on my phone.

Hope it works for you though- love the idea.

I'm trading classes with my partner on my remarkable (she's teaching me Social Choice Theory, me her Physics), I agree with almost everything you said but there are a few reasons why I'm going the Remarkable route here:

- I don't need to take pictures manually, all lectures are automatically stored, and much easier to flip through instead of a library of photos (which I'd have to later organize).

- I use the screenshare feature which turns my Remarkable into a whiteboard. I could get an actual whiteboard but then we're back to taking manual pictures in the middle of lessons, which will definitely be an impedance.

> My current go to - paper and pen with chatgpt app on phone - snap a photo to extract my writing.

I‘m not sure what you‘re writing but sending it all to a US cloud - do you not care about privacy at all?