Boox Note Air3 C - Note Taking Tutorial

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5 ай бұрын

I run through the main features in the Onyx Boox Note Air 3 and Note Air 3 C note taking app. This is one of the best note taking tablets that you can buy, and I hope this helps you get over the initial learning curve when first using the app. And if you are an experienced user, perhaps you might learn something that you didn't know it could do! I certainly learn loads from the comments on my channel so please go ahead and let me know if there is anything that you think I have missed.
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@KitBetts-Masters 5 ай бұрын

Check the comments below and join the discussion, I'd love to read your own hints and tips, and if you have any more questions for me! Check out these two great devices below: Note Air 3: shop.boox.com/products/noteair3?ref=0t1qqbSDWLMb (US and HK) euroshop.boox.com/products/boox-note-air3?ref=my_f5MKKrpQRge&variant=43063001448648 (EU and UK) Note Air 3 C: shop.boox.com/products/noteair3?ref=0t1qqbSDWLMb (US and HK) euroshop.boox.com/products/boox-note-air3-c?ref=my_f5MKKrpQRge&variant=42939341373640 (EU and UK) (These are affiliate links, I receive a small commission from sales via the link, but there is no extra cost to you. Many thanks for watching and for supporting the channel. :-) )

@shkrjam84 8 күн бұрын

Thank you for this thorough review of note taking and templates. This device is exactly what I need! I just unboxed a Kindle Scribe yesterday and within 15 mins could see it lacked the functionality I will need, was very disappointed. I have ADHD, and need something that can replace my notebooks/legal pads I use for note taking during patient visits (chart in work device EMR later and prefer handwritten notes during visit), my agenda for personal plus 2 jobs, to do lists for work and personal… and I need less distractions than using my phone - alarm/notification fatigue keeps it from being helpful. I need a personal assistant to keep me organized and remind me to do simple adulty things, so this is next best thing 🤣

@wholeheartedme 4 ай бұрын

I’m a rM user but I love the look of this device - thanks for all your videos- they are super helpful for me as I’m curious about these other devices👍🏻😊

@loumarcellino5738 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Kit, this was a great tutorial. I have the Kindle Scribe, but eventually want to upgrade to the Note Air 3 C and this will be very helpful when I begin to use the device to take notes. This video is definitely a keeper! Thank you again!

@KitBetts-Masters 5 ай бұрын

Glad to help!

@jumpsneak Ай бұрын

This review is brilliant. Never seen such a straight forward, (useful) information dense tech video

@KitBetts-Masters Ай бұрын

Very glad to help!

@jumpsneak Ай бұрын

@@KitBetts-Masters Can you tell if the Air3 has more latency when writing compared to the Air3 C? I'm worried due to lack of the super refresh technology it will be harder to write on the Black/white one.

@immanuelchrist7482 5 ай бұрын

can you make a video on reading and editing, highlighting and defining words ( various dictionaries) in pdf and Microsoft word document with the Boox Note Air3 C

@Ricardosv1 5 ай бұрын

I really want to know about that too

@hunterbrown910 5 ай бұрын

Great video. I’m looking to get my first e ink device and you video are really helpful. I want to replace my notebook I use to take notes for work. Note taking is my main use case. Which do you recommend, Remarkable 2, Supernote, or Note Air 3c? Searching the note would be a great feature.

@johnprosser5035 5 ай бұрын

Great as always. Quick question….. when you use audio to record a meeting can it convert that audio to text?

@johnmanley4528 5 ай бұрын

Nice tutorial!

@sfhgilani 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Kit. I am struggling to export my notes from the notes folder to pdf. Its only giving the option of exporting in the .txt format. or .note (Boox format). Can you kindly help if you or someone else has figured this out

@missdeas 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this. Your channel has been super helpful as I learn the tool. My question is on the ai text recognition. When I select the reflow choice , the page doesn’t give me the option to save my converted handwriting. How do I convert and keep this text

@marcocalesella8519 5 ай бұрын

hi! I have this notepad and I'm struggling with pdf interface: after I add some hand-write notes i can't print the whole pdf with my notes and I can't export the whole pdf with my notes. I only succeeded in exporting only the pages with hand-written notes but it's not what I want to do. If I try to send the whole pdf with notes by e-mail it only sends the simple pdf. To print the pdf with my notes on I have to export every single page as a .png and then print them one by one. Can you make a video about pdf interface? Thank you very much, beautiful videos!

@Rsmin 2 ай бұрын

Kit, thanks for the note taking lesson. How is the writing feel? I have to the a5x Supernote and it's a little slippery, but listening to your video it almost sounds like this is writing on sandpaper 🤪 My Note Air 3C should be coming in a day or so (ordered through one of your affiliate links)

@robinmiller7259 Ай бұрын

Hi there, great start up lesson thank you. My Air 3c is in the post and im waiting impatiently for it in New Zealand. My question please, can you create separate accounts on the device to use at home and work please.? Conscious of having personal notes and planner entres open at work.. would love to leave work at work also by simply switching accounts once im home. Keen to get the device and also get your feedback on this. Cheers Robin.

@RamKumar-vb4et 3 ай бұрын

Excellent review. Thanks for sharing. A quick question: Is Boox Note Air3 C Google certified? If not, what is the downside and risk mititgations please? Thanks

@gurdeepgss 2 ай бұрын

how does the note air series fair in highlighting with pen/marking up a 1000 page pdf?

@andrewmathenge3400 21 күн бұрын

Nice quick tutorial. I've discovered that if I create a link to a note, but only use the icon option (not icon and title), then I cannot edit the target notebook - don't know if this is a bug. However, if I create a link in a note to another note, but use the "icon + title" option, then when I click on the link, and go to the other note, then I can edit it. Strange.

@relicthominin9864 23 күн бұрын

Many thanks for this, very useful. I wish it were possible to be able to select just some text (not all) for AI handwriting recognition. I'd like to be able to mix and match, i.e. keep some handwritten notes but maybe turn titles etc. into printed text. You'd think that this might be easy with a combo of the lasso tool and text recognition but it doesn't seem to be.

@luissinsin 22 күн бұрын

Hi Kit, great channel and great video as always. I've been using a Rocketbook and although I like being able to take notes with pretty much real paper, use different color pens, etc... I don't like their app and how inflexible it is when it comes organizing the notes. Therefore I'm looking at eInk devices. I'm very intreagued with the Note Air 3C, Tab Ultra Pro and recently was even enticed by the Go 10.3 (but as much as I could consider giving up color, I don't think I can give up an SD card) I have two questions. 1.) I have an old Samsung Tab A tablet. If I want to test out my proclivity to actually use a tablet as a note taking apparatus with my current tablet, which app would you suggest that can give me a similar experience to how I would be working in a Boox ecosystem? 2.) I've seen the way that notes are listed in a gallery type view,(large thumbnails) I was wondering if Boox can display in a detailed list type view. I basically would want my notes to be able to be displayed in a similar fashion as windows Explorer shows files and folders. Hopefully with a tree diagram on the left side. I find this method best for me to organize files? Thanks for any info and advise.

@dannyp9410 3 ай бұрын

Hey guys! I was wondering if anyone had info on how many links deep you can cycle through in Supernote vs this device as he talks about here: 5:53 Ty in advance :)

@J3diBlack 16 күн бұрын

7:44 when converting handwriting to text is there a way of overwriting the handwriting on the note ? I know you can add it but it just combines the two. I’d like to write a page of notes and then replace it all with text.

@shahorezai2533 5 ай бұрын

Appreciate this one, thanks!

@KitBetts-Masters 5 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@shahorezai2533 5 ай бұрын

Do you have a video where you go trough different screen settings for note air 3c? Otherwise that would be an appreciated video, all these settings with refresh modes etc are abit confusing for a non technical person like me. Regards

@MikeyG830 5 ай бұрын

Good viedo thank you. One point is with the templates using PDF, the hyperlinks seem to no longer work using them as templates

@KitBetts-Masters 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, not like the supernote where they still work!

@petergreen8026 5 ай бұрын

Boox Note Air 3: highlighting: I tried writing notes, adding layer 2, putting highlighter on layer 2. I don’t have a problem reading the note. I then promoted Layer 1 above layer 2, which should put highlight underneath the note, but I cannot notice any difference. Perhaps because I have the B&W version?

@CarolaRodrigues Ай бұрын

I got mine a month ago and, I'm loving it, I feel it's full of bugs. Highlights is one of them: I use Readera for my pdfs and split the page with notes so i can write as I read. When I at Notes all the highlights disappear from Readera and every time I split the screen the Note app gets all these little annoying bugs, like some of the lines from the templates are missing or the size of the template changes by itself.

@hakunamatatarr 5 ай бұрын

Hey Kit, great video, also really useful for people who don't own a Boox yet and want to see the work flow! 2 questions: 1) I love the idea of searching in the handwritten notes! How does that work in the exported PDF? For me the ideal scenario would be that the PDF looks like the handwritten note but is searchable and it is possible to just mark the text and copy it if I wanted to use it in typed text format (eg in Word). Also can any of the other platforms (Supernote, Remarkable) do that? 2) I am particularly interested in working with scientific two-column PDFs. Could you make a video like this one for PDFs but comparing devices (for me the most interesting would be SN A6X2(A5X2), Boox NA3 and rM2)? I was thinking about the points Reading (how fast/ snappy can you open/navigate big PDFs; how to maneuver inside one page as in zoom, scrolling, keeping the zoom on the next page, ...), Annotating (what functions are available (also in comparison to a note); why is there a difference between using it as a template or opening the PDF in SN; are there colored pens for exporting; can you create your own TOC (ideally with a combination of handwritten notes and text already on the PDF); can you create extra margins in the same page as in rM; split screen, ...) and Exporting (what exporting options are there; how well does it work; how does it look on the computer,...). In the end it would be also cool to compare how much the battery drained during the process. I would love a video like that! Thanks!

@KitBetts-Masters 5 ай бұрын

Hiya, the only one that can do exactly that at the moment is the Kindle scribe I believe. It has that cool feature! Two column pdfs are great on Boox with the article mode. And I'll bear that in mind when I do future comparisons. I'm going to drive deep into the Boox neo reader app next. 🙂

@user-xz4qn4ld9w 5 ай бұрын

thanks for your reviews I noticed something : in the beginning of the video it was 88% in charge and in the end of the video it was just 83 % the color screen and BSR take a lof charge that's why I chose NA3 balck and white

@d.j.roberts187 5 ай бұрын

Can you move the side bar menu to the right? For left handed people

@boy19801 5 ай бұрын

Yes, easily. I do it via the menu, two taps and then my daughter can use it (I have an older Boox, but expect it to be there to in the NA3

@jenniferdubay3769 4 ай бұрын

So my use case i think will be reading a book on kindle and trying to use the split screen to take notes of the book into One Note. Is that something that you think this will handle pretty well? I understand OneNote isn't flawless but I am think I am comfortable with the work around.

@Mekuzee_Khen 3 ай бұрын

Exactly...

@jenniferdubay3769 3 ай бұрын

I have had my NA3C for 3 weeks and actually haven't used it for this yet at all. I have enjoyed writing in it so much that I have been mostly using it for work to take notes in. And I have been "sharing" those notes to OneNote from the Boox N of the app which I find easier to use consistently. I also have downloaded some forms that I use daily for work and have been using NeoReader to annotate those and then "sharing" with OneNote as well. I have been pretty happy so far with the set up.

@JakubKlubkoSmejkal 3 ай бұрын

I've been using Note Air3 C for a week now and I'm returning it and going to get samsung tab S9 probably with samsung Notes app. I'm really disappointed with NAC 3 handwriting recognition and laging and how it didn't react to my commands either by pen or a finger. I thing I gave myself enought time to learn how to lay my hand on the display so that it catched the pen and started writing immediately but it just didn't work. I actualy got into situation when a contractor called me and I wanted to note down price offer information during the call, but I just wan't able. I created a blank Handwriting notepad and started writing, but it catched like 50% of what i tried to write (3 lines with product variants, it's price and date of delivery). I don't know if it cathed my palm instead or what. And Text style notepad where I was expectiong the recognition to be instant so that I could use it on meetings? No way. You write a line of 6 or 7 words and wait 2-3 seconds to have it recognised and inserted to the notepad. You lose a half the notes and the meeting just waiting for the text to be converted. A few times the line was being recongised, but it probably failed and I didn't get te recognised text and the original hand written text was lost as well. Another thing I didn't like was that you write a few words, wait to be recongnised and inserted but unless I pressed space button, the editor didn't make a space between the last, already inserted word and the new first word. This means, when I was writing on top or somewhere in the middle of the page, I had to move my hand to the very bottom of the screen, press space bar and the back to top and hope to lay the pen fitst so that it caught the beginning of a new word. Here a floating key could ne useful to place it closer to where you write but it doesn't work this way. Once you switch to the floating keyboard, you can't write on the page, but only into a small window, where you fit 1-3 words. Then have to wait for them to be recognised, inserted, you press the spacebar and write another 1-3 words and so on and on. Another strange thing, after this week of using it a half of the pen is gone. I don't know, if this is normal or not, but half of the pen is simply grinded off.

@mzmel1 Ай бұрын

This is really helpful

@donkemper2572 10 күн бұрын

I'm thinking of getting this one or the Go 10.3 and i will only be using it for note taking and making to do lists for work. Which one should i get? And should i even get one?

@KitBetts-Masters 10 күн бұрын

You should definitely get one. :-) Check out my live stream from last night. I compare them in depth!

@kustomkure Ай бұрын

3:05. wait, there is no way to highlight underneath the text? really?

@dashie4yt 4 ай бұрын

Is it normal that Air3C used as a note taking device has a battery life around only 12-14 hours? I'm having one, but I'm not able to make the battery lasts longer.

@lucasl1047 4 ай бұрын

it’s probably the light or auto refresh thing eating your battery.

@captainh2o77 4 ай бұрын

Do you have a PDF reader that you recommend above Adobe, or is Adobe the best in your opinion?

@KitBetts-Masters 4 ай бұрын

The other two I've tried and like are UPDF and PDFelement. I have some content featuring them on my channel.

@captainh2o77 4 ай бұрын

@@KitBetts-Masters Awesome, I will definitely check out those videos.

@CarolaRodrigues Ай бұрын

Readera is great!

@tools4339 Ай бұрын

i can t se clearly the tablet

@mikaelsanchez7258 5 ай бұрын

Honestly m biggest gripe is that there’s no good way to erase using the included pen. It takes you out of a writing flow state in a super annoying way

@lucasl1047 4 ай бұрын

what about that strike through AI feature?

@JakubKlubkoSmejkal 3 ай бұрын

@@lucasl1047 that works only in handwriting document. But once you convert handwriing to text or create a text notebook, you only have to use the backspace on the virtual keyboard.

@hugolencastre3337 5 ай бұрын

There is 3 things I would love to have in boox... One is the hand recognition as the supernote but another is regarding the export after the save... I would like to have it exported to pdf on OneDrive and both pdf and note file to boox, but for now is only 1 possible and is for all places. Also a way to share live a notebook by url so I could share my note while writing. The boox website works but you need to wait a bit and the longer the documents the longer the time...

@lucasl1047 4 ай бұрын

what you mean hand recognition, so while i’m writing it will not recognize my palm??

@hugolencastre3337 3 ай бұрын

@@lucasl1047 my bad, hand writing recognition. Meaning when I select AI recognition the process already occured in the backend. At the moment the time it takes to do the process depends on the size of the notepad and it can take more than 1 min to recognize, at least on my notepads

@lucasl1047 3 ай бұрын

@@hugolencastre3337Wow, but does it affect the search tho? I mean, if I have the recognition turned on, finish writing and leave the device standing by, will that note I made be converted and hence searchable? Or only if I explicitly request for recognition while with the note open? I’m asking this cause I’ve seen Kit more than once showing how global search takes a long, long time on Boox devices because it needs to convert all notes that were not yet converted. In my mind I was just “well, so just turn on the automatic background recognition, and it will never need to bulk convert.”

@hugolencastre3337 3 ай бұрын

Maybe I don't know where that is but in my case the global search worked but it took 7m45s to find a random work in 1 notebook in the entire system.

@airestocky 5 ай бұрын

background text recognition is doing nothing.

@KitBetts-Masters 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's not working as well as the supernote is it?!?

@lucasl1047 4 ай бұрын

so even if i have it turned on searching would take long?

@eddellow4285 7 күн бұрын

I expected you to demonstrate actual note taking (since that was the subject). Instead, this was just a rambling description of features with little context.

@jamesthompson7282 5 ай бұрын

Whoa!: "You can't read on other devices the Boox Notes file type." [10:18] WTF???? You can't just gloss over that, Kit! If my Notes on Boox can't be read ANYWHERE ELSE on any other software, how do I export Notes into a PKMS? How can I actually USE my notes elsewhere? THIS IS CRUCIAL. Again: you just gloss over it! This was supposed to be a Note Taking Tutorial, yet there's no info on how to export my Notes into a Zettelkasten system like Notion, Obsidian, Lattics, EccoPro or InfoQube??? You're a teacher, and generally pretty good at explaining stuff in your videos. Complete FAIL in this one. I get that you don't actually keep notes on Boox & use them, I guess. But surely you can put yourself in OUR shoes & work through the workflow, start to FINISH, to demonstrate how we'd use this hardware to get the job done. Please either edit this video to update it with that info, or create a new video that actually DOES explain how to use Notes you've taken on a Boox device. Boox appears to offer a terrific hardware platform with incredibly rich e-Reader software that, as you've demonstrated, enables users to take notes & associate them with files. You mentioned doing so with .PDF files. How about other book file types? Can I read an .epub book & keep notes? And crucially: how do I then export Bookmarks with associated Notes to my Zettelkasten system? One other request: I've seen numerous reviews of such hardware/software by RIght-handed reviewers who comment that palm rejection is great - no probs. NOT MY EXPERIENCE. I'm LEFT-handed. For some reason that makes a difference in many cases. For instance, handwriting recognition in OneNote on my Samsung Galaxy Fold 4 smartphone is pretty good, but jumps all over if I write more than a word or two, pretty obviously because of failed palm rejection. Switch to writing badly with my Right hand: no probs. I find the problem even more pronounced using OneNote on my Lenovo Tab X1 3rd Gen tablet (their version of Microsoft Surface). Admittedly, Windows is a crap tablet OS - which is why I am investigating Boox. But Boox isn't available anywhere to trial. So your reviews (some of the best) are not enough. Please try to address this - perhaps switch to your left hand & try there. And not just for sketching or drawing a few demonstration lines on screen (your typical demo): write a few lines of text please. Thank you.