I made the switch to Kagi January last year.
I know it's all just personal experience and everyone can have their own needs, but I was skeptical at first as well.
Almost a year and a half later I've got no complaints.
My searches feel like how Google felt years ago: mainly I never think about it. I search, find what I want and I'm off. It just works as I'd expect without the nonsense ads and AI Google has now.
Worth a free trial. See how it works for you.
So it's just the forward/backwards buttons you want at the bottom?
That's so interesting. I can't say I ever use the forward button when browsing and for backwards I just use the back gesture (same as any other app).
But thanks for the screenshots. I didn't even know people use that sort of setup.
FF should offer it then, if that's something people use/expect as a norm.
To offer another take, FF has never been buggy for me. Never had this keyboard issue, or any of the stuff mentioned so your mileage may vary.
As for the bottom nav, I have that on normal FF. If you go to Settings-->Customize, the option to pick top or bottom address bar is right there.
Having used both, personally I highly preferred the Pebble over the Bangle JS.
Pebble was solid software, good designs and it all just worked simply and did what I needed. I also thought the Pebble Time Round was near perfect in design and execution. I'm not a fan of the geeky look of the normal pebble and bangle watches (or the apple watch look).
The Bangle was fun to dev for, and I love that it exists, but it all felt like a dev project. Not a finished product. Granted it was early on in the project so I'm sure it's in a better place now.
They both have similar capabilities. I say go with whichever you think is going to fit what you need a smartwatch to do.
This was my exact experience as well.
I'll keep an eye on it for sure and will most likely try to set it up again in another year or so. But right now, I have no time to fiddle to make things work.
This is great, thanks!
Picked up this case from Amazon since I didn't like the colors on the official case.
I had to buy a pen loop for a stylus, but aside from that, this is a basic no-frills magnetic case that I don't have much to complain about. The magnets hold the device secure enough that I don't feel worried about carrying it around.
If you search that case on Amazon you'll see it comes in other colors too. For ~$26 it's not a bad deal.
Some more pics:
Another sketch on the Boox Go 10.3 using the Staedtler Mars Jumbo stylus.
Really digging the feel of the screen on this device. Shame that the pencil tool is pretty garbage. But the pen tools are definitely great.
Here's the exported png:
The first sketch I did on my Boox Go 10.3. Top one was the brush pen tool. Bottom was the normal Pen tool.
Unlike my Supernote, I use the pen tools on the Boox exclusively and hate their pencil.
It's the opposite on the Supernote in the Atelier drawing app. The pencil on that is fantastic.
Here's the exported png:
Here's how it looks exported as a png:
I definitety prefer how everything looks on-device vs the export, but I found if you don't use the marker or any shading tool, things look better when you export.
I'm not a fan of the zip-a-tone look of the shading when you export the markers so I stick to the pencil tool.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20446230
Still messing around with Atelier and figuring out the combo of which tools it offers and which stylus to use.
The pencil tool and the Staedtler Noris Jumbo is the best combo for how I like to sketch so far. This sketch is the 8B pencil.
I wish the pen/ink tools were better. The screen on the Supernote really is nice to draw on
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20925524
I've had the Staedtler Noris Jumboand love it for drawing. I just purchased the Staedtler Mars Lumograph Jumbo and wanted to test the differences using the pencils in Atelier.
Here's a photo of the results.
The columns are:
L - Light pressure lines
H - Hard pressure lines
T - Tilt/attempting to shade lightly
X - Crosshatching with various pressure
The Mars is soft feeling like the Noris, which I like. But I found that I could not get as light a pressure /line with the Mars as I could with the Noris. You can see that in the photo too.
I think I'll stick with the Noris for art, but will add the Mars to the rotation for note taking.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21501878
I've just started using the Boox Go 10.3 for 2 days now and did some very early tests with the pen/pencil tools in the notes app to get a feel for which will work best for my note taking and for drawing.
I made a gridded up note to test the same types of strokes and sketching with the 3 pen types and the pencil tool.
TL;DR is all 3 pens will be useful for line drawing, but the pencil is pretty bad. Especially when compared to the pencil tool in the Supernote Atelier app. I will keep using the Supernote for pencil sketches and use the Boox for ink sketches.
I tested the 3 Wacom emr styluses I own, the Jumbo Noris, the Jumbo Mars, and the Dr Grip. I did not test the official Boox stylus yet.
For each tool I did the same test:
First row:
Vertical shading lines with as light pressure as I can get
Vertical shading lines with hard pressure
Normal pressure cross hatch
Horizontal scribble shade from top to bottom
Vertical scribble shade with light pressure
Vertical scribble shade with hard pressure
Second - Fourth row:
Horizontal line with very light pressure
Horizontal line with hard pressure
Horizontal line starting with light pressure, then pressing hard, then ending light again (should produce a line with thin ends and a thicker center for tools that support pressure sensitivity)
Fifth row (Pencil only):
Horizontal scribble tilted with hard pressure
Horizontal scribble tilted with light pressure
Vertical scribble with light pressure
Vertical scribble with hard pressure
Results:
All tools with the exception of the Ballpoint Pen are pressure sensitive.
The Pencil tool only uses pressure to change line darkness, not line thickness, which is a bummer.
Another odd thing with the Pencil tool was when making horizontal lines, the pencil is "softer" and shades in a thicker manner than tilting the pen and making vertical lines. If you look at the scribbles in the last row of the Pencil section you can see what I mean.
Next up I'm going to attempt the same sketch using each tool. After that I'll do some tests for note taking to see which feels the best and looks most like my handwriting. I'll post those later this week.
I'll also try and post some photos of how the android apps I use look/render.
Hope this helps any other people looking for art-specific examples for the Boox. I couldn't find much out there with reviews where people used it for sketching so I'm going to try and fill that gap.
Here's a png export of the note:
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