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For this exact reason, I decided to instead buy Surface Pro 9 and installed Ubuntu Linux on it. It works amazingly well. Moreover, all my notes are automaticall

For this exact reason, I decided to instead buy Surface Pro 9 and installed Ubuntu Linux on it. It works amazingly well. Moreover, all my notes are automatically converted to PDF and syned to my gitlab.

Robotbeat 3y ago
ooo, tell me more. what is your workflow like on the surface to enable this?
diffeomorphism 3y ago
How is the support nowadays? It used to be that you needed custom kernels and some fiddling (e.g. see reddit's r/surfacelinux). What software do you use for the note taking? On Windows there seemed to be OneNote (and nothing else) and on Linux xournal++. Sorry for all the questions, but I am currently looking for a new laptop/tablet and thought I'd ask for experiences of others.
- whatisyour 3y ago
  Apart from camera, almost everything is working correctly. Camera doesn't work at all. https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface I use this kernel, you can use this with most operating systems. Once things are setup, everything is extremely smooth. I use xournal++ for note writing, and using GNOME is necessary. KDE doesn't have support for screen rotation etc. When you use GNOME, make sure to disable gestures and screen edge detection, because that might occasionally cause interfere with writing. So, the workflow is quite simple with xournal++, you run a `inotify` based watched which automatically compiles and pushes stuff on every save. I of course assume that only `xournal++` on tab can change those handwritten notes. You can get some fancier git logic if needed. By putting the baselink as `https://gitlab.com/user/repo/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw https://gitlab.com/user/repo/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw`, you can get the list of PDFs directly on readme of your git repo. pretty nifty for referring to later. while inotifywait -e modify,create,delete,move $INPUT; do publish.script --input $INPUT --output $OUTPUT done # publish.script pushd $INPUT pushd $INPUT printf "# Handwritten Notes\n\n" > readme.md printf "| Index | Date | Title |\n" >> readme.md printf "| --- | --- | --- |\n" >> readme.md INDEX=0 for i in $(ls -r *.xopp); do BASENAME=$(basename $i .xopp) PDFNAME=$BASENAME.pdf xournalpp --create-pdf=$OUTPUT/$PDFNAME $i BASENAME=$(basename $i .xopp) PDFNAME=$BASENAME.pdf LINK=$BASELINK/$PDFNAME$SUFFIX INDEX=$(( INDEX + 1)) DATE=$(echo ${BASENAME:0:10}) printf "| %d | %s | [%s](%s) |\n" $INDEX $DATE $BASENAME $LINK >> readme.md done if [[ $(git diff --stat) != '' ]]; then git add . git commit -m "$(date)" git push fi popd You can run the inotify as a `systemd` service [Unit] Description=Starts Sync Service [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=%%%SYNC_BIN%%% --input %%%INPUT_DIR%%% --output %%%OUTPUT_DIR%%% ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID KillMode=process TimeoutSec=180 Restart=on-failure RestartSec=5s [Install] WantedBy=default.target

Robotbeat 3y ago

ooo, tell me more. what is your workflow like on the surface to enable this?

diffeomorphism 3y ago

How is the support nowadays? It used to be that you needed custom kernels and some fiddling (e.g. see reddit's r/surfacelinux). What software do you use for the note taking? On Windows there seemed to be OneNote (and nothing else) and on Linux xournal++. Sorry for all the questions, but I am currently looking for a new laptop/tablet and thought I'd ask for experiences of others.

whatisyour 3y ago
Apart from camera, almost everything is working correctly. Camera doesn't work at all. https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface I use this kernel, you can use this with most operating systems. Once things are setup, everything is extremely smooth. I use xournal++ for note writing, and using GNOME is necessary. KDE doesn't have support for screen rotation etc. When you use GNOME, make sure to disable gestures and screen edge detection, because that might occasionally cause interfere with writing. So, the workflow is quite simple with xournal++, you run a `inotify` based watched which automatically compiles and pushes stuff on every save. I of course assume that only `xournal++` on tab can change those handwritten notes. You can get some fancier git logic if needed. By putting the baselink as `https://gitlab.com/user/repo/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw https://gitlab.com/user/repo/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw`, you can get the list of PDFs directly on readme of your git repo. pretty nifty for referring to later. while inotifywait -e modify,create,delete,move $INPUT; do publish.script --input $INPUT --output $OUTPUT done # publish.script pushd $INPUT pushd $INPUT printf "# Handwritten Notes\n\n" > readme.md printf "| Index | Date | Title |\n" >> readme.md printf "| --- | --- | --- |\n" >> readme.md INDEX=0 for i in $(ls -r *.xopp); do BASENAME=$(basename $i .xopp) PDFNAME=$BASENAME.pdf xournalpp --create-pdf=$OUTPUT/$PDFNAME $i BASENAME=$(basename $i .xopp) PDFNAME=$BASENAME.pdf LINK=$BASELINK/$PDFNAME$SUFFIX INDEX=$(( INDEX + 1)) DATE=$(echo ${BASENAME:0:10}) printf "| %d | %s | [%s](%s) |\n" $INDEX $DATE $BASENAME $LINK >> readme.md done if [[ $(git diff --stat) != '' ]]; then git add . git commit -m "$(date)" git push fi popd You can run the inotify as a `systemd` service [Unit] Description=Starts Sync Service [Service] Type=simple ExecStart=%%%SYNC_BIN%%% --input %%%INPUT_DIR%%% --output %%%OUTPUT_DIR%%% ExecReload=/usr/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID KillMode=process TimeoutSec=180 Restart=on-failure RestartSec=5s [Install] WantedBy=default.target