Very interesting thoughts. I have used remarkable tablet very briefly, so this reflection is not much about that tablet but more along your philosophical stand about in defence of handwritten notes. For centuries, people have written by hand, and we have done well. Remarkable may be good as a tablet but be that as it may, it cannot or rather should not aim to replace paper, because papers are different media. You can write on paper with pencil, pen, charcoal, even burn a stick and write from the carbon deposition at the burnt end - my point is the versatility of the medium you can use. Your tablet that depends on touch devices and batteries will not match it. I can take a paper notebook and pencil anywhere in the world and can write for hours as long as my pencil will allow me and as long as the sheafs of paper will allow me, and that in most cases outpaces a tablet on a single charge. That aside, you can bend a paper even as you write, tear them apart and they still work the same. You can always improve your handwriting, write slowly, experiment. Of course you can do pretty much the same thing with tablet devices, but the cognitive feel of a paper is very different from a rigid electronic device.

I believe the two media are different and I quite like how you have articulated your feelings about what a tablet that gives a “feel” of paper.