{Photograph}: Nena Farrell
The Manta additionally has a built-in artwork mode, however you may need to hunt to seek out it. In contrast to different digital notebooks, you possibly can’t simply swap over to the pencils, however as an alternative you may have to entry the settings and obtain the Atelier app, which is free and fairly quick to obtain through Wi-Fi. When you try this, a bit paint palette icon will seem on the highest proper subsequent to your buttons to make a brand new observe or Phrase doc, permitting you to generate an artwork file. You can inform which is which while you see .spd on the finish of a file identify, which is Supernote’s file sort for the Atelier program.
As soon as inside an Atelier file, you may acquire entry to seven pencil weights, 5 ink-pen types, and three marker choices. You too can choose the lock button to seek out two totally different spray pens, although the lock icon is not what I might have guessed to represent that. You may add layers, too, and a grayscale vary of 16 shades of grey (ending in white and black). The drawing instruments are conscious of strain and enjoyable to make use of.
Pen Station
{Photograph}: Nena Farrell
This overview is perhaps for the Manta, nevertheless it’s additionally for Supernote’s pens that pair with the Manta—and with Supernote’s smaller digital pocket book, the A6 X2 Nomad ($299). Whereas each different digital pocket book firm gives about two digital markers, often a fundamental possibility after which an improve that usually options an eraser, Supernote gives 4 pens. Not solely that, however its Coronary heart of Metallic Pen 2 ($75) has 10 shade choices, one thing no different digital pocket book firm gives. Even Supernote’s Push-Up Normal Pen ($59) truly appears like an actual pen slightly than a flowery pill stylus. Supernote’s pens additionally do not require any charging.
I have been testing the Manta with Supernote’s Lamy Safari Vista EMR Pen ($89), a digital pocket book model of the famed Lamy Safari pen. It is light-weight and comfy and appears so actual I generally seize it and by chance attempt to use it in my paper planner. I additionally actually just like the Coronary heart of Metallic pen, which I examined with the Supernote Nomad final yr, although it is heavier than the Lamy. (They weren’t joking in regards to the metallic!) Each are snug to write down loads of notes with, whether or not you are in six hours of conferences or a five-hour Dungeons and Dragons session. If you happen to’re choosy about your writing utensil, even when it is a digital one, Supernote is the most suitable choice.
The one draw back? No erasers. If you happen to suppose you is perhaps an eraser or keyboard individual, then the Supernote, whether or not this Manta or the smaller Nomad, is not for you. However in case you do not want both of these equipment, it is an ideal digital pocket book for notes and sketches alike.
