After a few years away – it was a 2018 post by Aral Balkan that initially turned me on to it – I started using my Boogie Board Blackboard writing tablet instead of legal pads this morning: I've lost the penchant for the over-romanticization of handwriting and paper and turned more towards writing in Obsidian / Drafts so I don't need the paper to write, only to think, and the Boogie helps me do that (and prevents me from killing too many trees in the name of my inane and mostly illegible jottings). Pen / stylus nearly same weight as my beloved Lamy Studio fountain pen so there's little lost in translation; also nice that my inveterate southpawness doesn't result in (as much) smearing as it does with dry erase boards and ink.

Current workflow: determine the specific point – the more specific I am, the more useful it is – that I'm working from, then spew thoughts and notions all across the "boogie-page" (nice to use my right fingernails to circle stuff as I go about scrawling with my left), scan for something worthwhile (though I do tend to do that as I go, a habit picked up from living with my shitty handwriting because it's hard for me to read what I wrote five minutes later), type that up, hit the delete button on the Board, and start again.

One complaint: a bit hard to see in my low-light Paintshop cavern, especially when my left hand covers much of the light. Moving lamp to right side helped considerably - though I wish I could write in white on the black screen as I do in the computer on Obsidian. Still, a useful tool – glad to be back with it.