Fraga, Eric writes: > On Monday, 24 Oct 2022 at 17:42, Jeffrey DeLeo wrote: >> I am very happy with my Kobo Elipsa > > Your workflow is very similar to that of mine on the reMarkable and the > two units are similar in size etc. It's a workflow that is fine for > annotating documents (which is what I want) but definitely no link to > org mode for the OP... ;-)
Indeed. Both Kobo Elipsa and reMarkable are very tempting and in a similar price range. The main problem I find is that they both also run closed and, presumably, proprietary software. I don't know if my knowledge (and my time) would be enough to try to hack them. And I imagine that I would run the risk of ending up bricking the gadget. The annotations by hand with the stylus are difficult to translate to Org :-) but in any case they are tremendously useful and save considerable paper and ink. I wonder if these devices are capable of exporting normal annotations in plain text or xml? Anyway, I think it would be possible to write some python script[1] to extract the annotations and then parse the resulting xml from there to get a nice and beautiful Org document. Which also leads me to wonder if anyone has tried that. I think it's a good entertainment for a vacation... [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1106098/parse-annotations-from-a-pdf
