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I have very bad handwriting, especially when not taking care to write carefully, which when making notes, I don't.

Here is an example on how it parses my terrible handwriting: https://websites.instantwebsite.app/wPhkwSStQvStUrzPC9jW5Kw/...

(no, I'm not a doctor)

According to the licenses on the device, the handwriting is "partially powered by MyScript" which seems to be this service: https://www.myscript.com/



Wow, that's reMarkably (sorry) good!


I had band handwriting and spent some time with Write Now! which is a book teaching the Getty-Dubay italics method to adults. It helped quite a bit, but I’ve been meaning to revisit it and I think it would be great to pull PDFs into something like ReMarkable for practice.

https://handwritingsuccess.com/

Edit: looks like they have released an iPad app since I last tried it! I’ll also add that when I first did it I found doing the worksheets pretty relaxing as a wind down exercise, in the same way that mindlessly playing puzzle games on a phone would be, but with much more benefit.


What a great way of telling someone their handwriting is terrible without saying it outright, and also give advice on how to improve it! :)

Jokes aside, practice PDFs for improving my handwriting does sound interesting, thank you for taking the time to share it.


I write small and highly connected (e.g. I often drag from one letter to the next, only lifting a bit), and I'm also impressed with the recognition. It's not perfect of course, and doesn't seem to have many smarts about context (... good and bad. I can write weird stuff easily, but it also turns "recognition" to "hecognition" like in that screenshot), but it's much better than I've been able to get out of other devices.

For me, at least some of it is that the pen is more pen-like ("hard" rather than with a tip that depresses), and the sampling rate is much higher than e.g. a Surface. I have a Surface device and I absolutely can't stand writing on it - I have to write huge and slowly and lift a couple mm, or it screws up all over the place. ipads are dramatically better, but they still sample slower AFAICT, and close many of my "e"s into "c"s and similar loss-of-detail.


Oh wow! I'm in a similar boat - type a million MPH but have to take care to avoid scribbling chickenscratch when I write. I preordered the rM2 (not yet shipped) but was pretty worried about how it would fare against the formidable foe of my illegible hieroglyphs. This side-by-side has given me hope. Thank you for sharing!


I've had to read worse when marking exam papers...




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