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I'm thinking of buying it for my girlfriend who's a biologist and uses a lot of paper. What are the pros and cons in your experience..?


If she uses paper and is happy with that system, I would honestly suggest /not/ getting her a remarkable unless she specifically says she wants it.

Digital notes are totally different than writing on paper.


Or he could gift it and return it if she isn't happy


Getting a very expensive gift that you don’t want is often an unpleasant experience.


Don't have the remarkable, but consider an ipad. They are roughly the same price but the ipad is far far more capable (at the cost of no epaper)


Best writing experience of all tablets out there. OCR is pretty good for xoncerting wrotong. The quality of the output is pretty noisy and lackluster in terms of sketching.

Beautiful as a notebook. Lackluster if you want it as an artist and you plan on using the drawings you make as anything other than a png.

I happy with mine :D.


Honestly my experience has been great so far. To me it feels like I’m writing on the paper and sharing the notes have been so easy for me


I checked with a bunch of biologists and all of them find the results here to be merely correlational and misleading. Have asked to wait for more evidence


Try Mermaid-cli


1. It would help to know what doctors have said so far so that we can eliminate some from our hypotheses

2. I had a minor case of myofascial pain which has reoccured over 2 years but physiotherapy gets it down and strength training helps it stay at bay

3. However my girlfriend, who had a fundamentally similar pain has been suffering for more than a year and a half with days when she is bed ridden. It doesnt help that she's a biologist so her work at the microscope severely messes up her neck. The pain and stiffening keeps increasing, there's soreness and what have you. It is diagnosed as fibromyalgia.

4. The way we have gotten better at managing it is. a. Physiotherapy. I can comment more on this once I know about how much of this maps on to your condition

b. Harm reduction of the occupational hazard(which applies to desk job folks too).

c. Very regular exercising

d. Majorly, diagnosis of nutrient deficiencies. She's been a vegetarian all her life so she was deficient in protein, Vitamin D and B12. Supplements helped with her recovery.

e. Some CBT. Chronic pain fucks your brain and muscular pain is exacerbated by mental distress. So mental health managrment is part of our stratergy for her.

Im sure this is super hard man. Don't give up. It's really about finding the right path.


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