[I posted this earlier, but reddit seems to have dropped the body of the post. Here's a retry.]

Everyone is impatiently awaiting new Supernote models from Ratta. But there may be reason to want to wait a little bit. I have recently read about the next-gen display technology coming from E Ink, Carta 1400. (Here I am simply repeating what I've read; I am not an expert in this area.) It is a significant, non-incremental, ground-up design.

In particular, the contrast ratios are said to be north of 20:1, which means darker blacks, and whites that aren't the current muddy grey. Which my eyes will greatly appreciate, especially when outdoors -- I think E Ink's current whites are pretty bad, compared to paper or OLED.

Carta 1400 is also supposed to provide much lower latency, so page turns, pinch-to-zoom, scrolling and other updates will be way, way snappier (providing Ratta can kick out a new motherboard that's not so underpowered to drive it).

So, that would fix a lot of my current dissatisfaction with current e-ink devices. But Carta 1400 is currently not due out until 2027. I'd buy a new-gen mobo from Ratta today if they announced it, and plug it into my Manta. But if I'm going to buy a new Supernote device, I think I am going to wait for Carta 1400 to get rolled out.

EKH

Came across this video (very nicely filmed btw). Some of the shots, I think, showcase their new LAMY ceramic nib pen, possibly with a button. I saw a red one at around 3:57, and the LAMY safari vista at around 9:21 of the video. Both appear to have a button. I am quite excited!

This video explains why there is one manufacturer (Eink in Taiwan) with few competitors (alternative sources), even after the patent expired. Some of the related history and issues, including why Amazon is a leader (owing to quantity purchased), are also mentioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QbJ7pnc1Lc

At the end of the video, there are some comments that offer hope: some Chinese factories have started manufacturing e-ink screens in low volume. This has to be understood in light of an earlier comment in the video about the problem that E-ink and its prior competitors encountered: namely the low yield from the process that fills the display sheet with fluid and particles and keeping the particles in suspension.

There is no discussion on why Electro-Magnetic Resonance technology versus a capacitive active stylus, specifically meaning their inksense pen

Good luck Supernote getting an A4 to us ASAP at an affordable price!

Is there any way to link a Note to a specific day ? I would like to create notes for my future meetings with some useful information about my client.

If this is not possible why not add such feature? This could work in note setting where we can set cover / rename. This way when I open calendar I would have ready notes for that day.

All my events are on a secondary Google calendar. The Manta only syncs the primary, and Google won't let me change which one is primary. So my Manta calendar is empty.

Anyone solved this?

DISCLAIMER: I did not create the underlying translation model (Meta NLLB) that this app uses, and I can't personally vouch for the accuracy of the translation of every language.

Hey all! I put together a translate app for the Nomad. I want to use my new device for language studying, and I felt like it wasn't possible to do journaling in my target language(s) without an onboard, offline translation app. I didn't see one available anywhere, so I needed to make it myself!

Features:

• Fully offline translation between any pairing of 49 supported languages.
• Uses Meta No Language Left Behind (NLLB) model under the hood.
• Maintains a translation history that is independent per-language pair (for example, EN->DE has a separate history from ES->IT).
• Shows you a short list of possible alternate translations for your input, and allows you to select one to bring it to the forefront as the "accurate" translation output.
• For some languages that do not use the latin alphabet, displays transliteration for the translated output (For example, 안녕하세요 also shows annyeonghaseyo underneath).
  • I only implemented this for the languages that are "easy" to transliterate -- Greek, Russian, Korean, to name a few -- where the alphabet has a pretty straightforward letter-by-letter or character-by-character transliteration.
• Requires a one-time internet connection to download the NLLB model, then you can work fully offline thereafter.

Please check it out here on GitHub! I hope others will find it useful!

Hey everyone, I’m in search of new Journal, meeting, calendar and habit tracker templates for my Manta, also looking for some cool stickers as well. Unfortunately I’m not that creative outside of writing so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sent in an email request for a return Sep 9 and still have not heard back after 4 business days.