Another adoring Pomera DM30 owner here. I use git worktree to sync writing projects with my laptop.

I could not bare needing to go through Freewrite's cloud.

Wow Pomera looks very interesting. Is it the only one of its kind? And is it actually that small that you can put it in your pocket?

Which document formats does it save to?

> Is it the only one of its kind?

I'm not aware of any directly comparable non-DIY devices. There are a few other "electronic typewriter" devices that usually come up in these discussions, like the Alphasmart range and the Freewrite, but the DM30 checks more of my boxes.

> And is it actually that small that you can put it in your pocket?

I (a man who wears men's clothes with generally usable pockets) can fit it in a pocket, but not very comfortably. It has a footprint similar to a basic e-reader, but it's thicker, I'd guess an inch and change.

> Which document formats does it save to?

It just saves to plain text, which is perfect for me since I write in Markdown. The editor uses a (sort of ugly) monospace font and has some simple but useful navigation commands.

Thank you, I actually went ahead and bought a DM30 last night. Seems like it could be the perfect thing to take for an outside writing. session. Yes the screen could have been somewhat bigger, but then it would absolutely require an iPad-sized bag.

I just hope the screen is not tooo small :)

Hi, sorry to bother you, but I got the Pomera DM30 and can't seem to figure how to disable the Japanese substitution for the text. Every time I enter English text and add a punctuation mark everything changes to Japanese. I have switched the interface to English, that was pretty straightforward.