In reply to Josiah Wilson.

Thanks for the recommendation! An eInk-based device is never going to be my perfect digital notepad, though, because it’s only going to get traction if it’s a device I’ve always got me with me. So I’ll need it for artwork and playing videos and all the stuff that iPads are good at.

I can see the appeal of something that’s not a single-purpose device, but it is more focused, like an ereader + notepad, but personally I was hypnotized by the old Microsoft Courier demos, which seemed to be designed around the idea of maximalism instead of minimalism, always having access to ALL the stuff you could possibly want.