Switched from Moleskine to iPad for note-taking. Anyone else miss the real pages flip?

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I've been using iPad for notes for years, but something always felt off

compared to a physical Moleskine. Then I realized: every "notebook" app

on iPad is actually an infinite canvas with a notebook skin on top.

There are no real pages, no end, no shape.

So I spent the past year building Perenne Note — a digital notebook

where pages are finite, you flip them like paper, and each notebook has

a fixed page count. When you fill it, you start a new one.

Sounds simple but it changed how I use it. There's a strange psychological

effect when pages are limited: you write more deliberately, you don't

treat it as an infinite dumping ground, and the notebook feels like

an object rather than a database.

Site: https://www.perenne.app

I am I the only one missing this? Or do you also feel

like infinite canvas makes your notes more chaotic than freeing? it's an open discussion

Posted May 12, 2026, 2:53 PM UTC

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