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Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2010–2025), in 7 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Hard to search, edit and reorganize handwritten notesUnreviewed
20102026- Slow to search through handwritten notes2025-05-28
- Handwriting is too slow to be legible, and fast scribbles become undecipherable later2022-07-25
- Hard to search, edit and reorganize notes; slow handwriting2014-03-06
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Slow to search through handwritten notes2025-05-28
- Handwriting is too slow to be legible, and fast scribbles become undecipherable later2022-07-25
- Tabs have no content and GitHub doesn't say where to start, so the PDF is hard to find2022-06-29
- Alternative note apps on Linux feel janky and laggy when used with a pen2022-04-02
- Hard to search, edit and reorganize notes; slow handwriting2014-03-06
- Having to rewrite hundreds of tasks and subtasks every day is too slow2011-04-29
- Stylus and gesture conventions are a terrible pain for most people to learn and use2010-03-02