Last week I learned about
Daily Notes for Boox, an Android app designed specifically for Boox eInk devices. I installed it on by my
Boox Note Air 3C and the
Boox Go 7 and primarily using it on the Go 7. In function it is a simple app, a page for every day on which I can write notes, but it has a nifty todo function. Anything that I write on a page can be selected and converted to a todo, which I can then tag. There is a simple way to move a todo from one day to the next. Each month's notes an be exported to a PDF for archival. Unfortunately, there is no synchronization between devices and the app's author suggests this may be too complicated for him to add. Still, I am finding the app a very handy personal daily notes and tasks tracker.
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Daily Notes works well on the Go 7 although the plastic on glass writing experience and small screen makes it only comfortable for writing a few sentences, which is fine for tasks and simple notes. As I have written earlier, I am thinking I want a tablet smaller than the 10.3 inch size and among the devices I am looking at
the Supernote Nomad appears to be a perfect fit, although it does not have the Google Play store. Problem is that while the price of the Nomad is $329, that does not include a stylus or a case. With the cheapest stylus and a case the price is $550 which is on the high end of what I want to pay. I also have concern that I can only buy it direct from the manufacturer.
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- I believe today is the day that Apple is to release the "2026" version of their operating systems. I just checked the iPad Mini and it shows no update available. I think the release version of iPad OS 26 was installed on my iPad Air, which I have had the beta versions installed, last week.#
- Checked whether the iPad is available on the iPad Mini at 4:45 PM EDT and it is currently downloading.#
- Installation went as expected with no problems. I don't have an emotional reaction to the glass-like UI changes but I don't know the translucent background of notifications makes notifications better. Same for the control panel. #
- Am I the only one to think the icon for the Journal app doesn't make sense? #
- I enabled the windowing mode, which I was curious to see on the iPad Min so I tested with my primary two window use case, displaying two fantasy football apps (ESPN and Yahoo) side by side. The authors of these apps force them to be in landscape by default, which I hate, so that makes landscape side by side not look like it does on the Microsoft Duo, but I think top down in portrait is workable. I wish the ESPN app fonts weren't so small or there was a way to zoom in a window on the Mini. #