u/gthing

I have updated my resume everywhere I can find in linked in, but for some reason when recruiters or others come across me, all they can find is an old copy. I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I recently got the Hibreak Plus and was a bit disappointed with the built-in notes app and to find that other handwriting apps had too much lag to be usable.

I was thinking of returning it. That is until u/itsedi let me know about their reverse-engineering eink SDK compatible with bigme devices.

I got the Hibreak Plus specifically to use as a bullet journal and pretty much nothing else other than maybe some reading. So I made an app for taking simple handwritten notes. Best of all, it has palm rejection - unlike the built-in app, making it a much more pleasant experience.

This isn't a drawing app or a big canvas with lots of brushes. It's a simple note taking app with a pen, eraser, color selection, and multiple canvases. The canvases can be scrolled vertically but not horizontally.

It's still a work in progress but I wanted to share it here in case anyone else would find it useful. I assume it will work on other Bigme devices.

Here's the link: https://github.com/sam1am/inkit

Would love to hear if it is useful to you.

I picked up the Hibreak Plus and have been testing it for the last couple days. I was looking for a simple phone sized device with an e-ink screen and a stylus and found the other options too expensive so thought this would be a good middle ground.

The biggest disappointment so far is that other note-taking apps like Saber, Butterfly, and even Onenote (which has a stub pre-installed) are unusable with the pen. There is simply too much delay. And in the case of Onenote, it is so bad you can't get more than straight lines (like it is detecting the start and end point of your stroke and nothing in between).

The built-in note taking app is okay... but you are pretty much limited to it for taking notes with the pen. And yes, I have tried changing the e-ink refresh settings and everything.

One thing I appreciate is the screensave settings. Normal when the device goes to sleep a sleep screen comes up. But you can set it to just show whatever is on the screen. For a daily bullet-journaling device that is useful so I can see my list at a glance without unlocking.

I'm debating returning the device, though - due to the limitations of stylus apps. Is anyone else seeing this or do you know of a setting or something that can make other third party apps work better? Thanks.