One month with the SuperNote A5X
| supernote, drawingI've had my SuperNote A5X for a month now, and I really like it.
Text from my sketch
I use it for:
- untangling thoughts
- sketchnoting books
- planning
- drafting blog posts
- drawing
A- uses it for: (she's 6 years old)
- practising cursive
- doing mazes and dot-to-dots
- drawing
- reading lyrics
Things I'm learning:
- Exporting PNGs at 200% works well for my workflow. I rename them in Dropbox and upload them to sketches.sachachua.com.
- Carefully copying & deleting pages lets me preserve page numbers. I use lassoed titles for active thoughts and maintain a manual index for other things.
- Layouts:
- Landscape: only easier to review on my laptop
- Portrait columns: lots of scrolling up and down
- Portrait rows: a little harder to plan, but easier to review
- Many books fit into one page each.
- Google Lens does a decent job of converting my handwriting to text (print or cursive, even with a background). Dropbox → Google Photos → Orgzly → Org
- Draft blog posts go into new notebooks so that I can delete them once converted.
- The Super Note helps me reclaim a lot of the time I spend waiting for A-. A digital notebook is really nice. Easy to erase, rearrange, export… It works well for me.
- Part of my everyday carry kit
Ideas for growth:
- Settle into monthly pages, bullet journaling techniques
- Practise drawing; use larger graphic elements & organizers, different shades
- Integrate into Zettelkasten
I put my visual book notes and visual library notes into a Dropbox shared folder so that you can check them out if you have a Supernote. If you don't have a Supernote, you can find my visual book notes at sketches.sachachua.com. Enjoy!
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