I took notes on an iPad Pro for a semester in college. It worked well and there were some advantages. Infinitely expanding pages, moving notes around, pages only exist when they’re necessary, etc.

But the thing that I missed most was the feel of pencil on paper. A stylus sliding around glass felt... bad and I was always distracted by it.

> But the thing that I missed most was the feel of pencil on paper.

Has anyone tried Paperlike? I'm interested in the "feel" and how it affects display quality.

https://paperlike.com/

I have a cheap matte screen protector from Amazon on my iPad Pro, and it works fantastically. Completely changes the writing experience

I have the first iteration of it and it is very very nice in terms of feel but I found it impacted screen quality more than I could tolerate. I believe this has improved in later versions and I’m somewhat tempted to try one of the current ones. I was really torn when I took it off, it does feel like paper and it even feels nicer with your hands not just the pencil, at the time it really damaged colour accuracy and also made the screen look like it was composed of rainbow crystals, it had a tiny prism effect on every element of the matte surface.

Thanks for sharing your experience with it!

This could be aleviates by adding a special matte screen protector that gives pen and paper feel

But the screen still glows. Paper is not supposed to glow. At least that’s my entirely emotional argument against writing on an iPad.

Yes but at least you don’t get the stylus sliding on glass feeling, the feedback is closer to but not exactly like pen and papet. It’s a tradeoff