This DIY PDA has an E Ink display, ESP32 processor, and a thumb keyboard

Smartphones may be pocket-sized computers that can do thousands of different things… but sometimes that’s as much a weakness as it is a strength. I can’t count the number of times I pulled my phone out of my pocket to check my calendar or look up the weather forecast, only to end up get distraction by a notification, switching apps, and forgetting what I grabbed my phone for in the first […]

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It's that yearly moment where I reminisce about my Palm PDAs and Pocket PCs of old, and I realize that I actually miss the stupid Palm Graffiti alphabet as a stylus driven input method.

When you got good at it, you could jot down things shockingly quick. Unfortunately, It also ended up shaping my already weird and shitty handwriting into something weirder and shittier still.

I haven't been comfortable taking notes on anything not keyboard driven since.