My Writing Tablet Progress

📆 15 Jun 2026 21:55 UTC +01:00
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Hello world! This blost has been on my mind for about five months and now I have finally got round to writing it. The last time I wrote about this tablet, was back when I first got it - Android Writing - New Tablet, Keyboard and Pen, back in December 2025. Since then, lots of things have changed in my workflow and the software that I’m using. So, let’s go through what has changed.

Applications

Let’s start off with the launcher. In my original post, I had swapped from the default launcher to Nova Launcher. I used that for months, until they introduced ads in the free version. I didn’t want to pay to remove ads so I had to find an alternative launcher to use.

I did a bit of research and discovered Niagara Launcher. I have got a pretty simple setup with this, my homepage is just a date/time widget at the top, a Vivaldi search bar in the center, and then 4 apps pinned - these being: Vivaldi (my web browser), Quillpad (my go to markdown editor), YouTube (because I can always have time to waste on videos), Collabora Office (the office suite I use).

I haven’t changed much else in terms of the apps I use, so that’s all for this section.

Workflow

While my workflow for writing hasn’t changed too much, I thought I’d rewrite it all anyway.

Blosts

When I get the urge and inspiration to write a blost, I open up Nextcloud Notes and create a new markdown file. I write my lovely work, whatever that may be, then I copy the contents of the file to the Codeberg repo for my site. I then go to Termux and pull the git repo. I have got a build script to deploy my website.

The script goes a little something like this:

$ ./polymaths.sh
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#!/bin/sh
echo "Building..."

bundle exec jekyll build

echo "Build Complete!"

pause 0.5

echo "Deploying..."

rsync --delete-during --zc=zstd --update --progress --itemize-changes --stats -r "_site/" "orbitalmartian@polymaths.page:orbitalmartian.polymaths.page/"

echo "Deploy completed!"

pause 1

echo "Pushing to Git..."

git add .
git commit
git push

echo "Pushed to git!"

What this script does is build my website using bundle exec jekyll build, which builds the site using Jeykll into the _site/ directory; converting the markdown files into html files with all my “fancy” CSS.

Then it pushes it to the polymaths.page server with rsync --delete-during --zc=zstd --update --progress --itemize-changes --stats -r "_site/" "orbitalmartian@polymaths.page:orbitalmartian.polymaths.page/" - I must admit I don’t know what all of the flags do exactly, but it’s the instructions I was given for pushing, so I am not going to argue :D.

And then, last but not least, it adds all changes, commits them (opening the commit message in my default editor), and pushes to the Codeberg repo for my website.

I have added some progress messages, which just inform when each section is starting and then finishing. I want to add some error messaging for if any section fails to execute, with a different echo but I don’t know bash that much.

Other Writing

For my other writing; novels, etc., I use Quillpad - all of the files are synced through Nextcloud as well, but I just like to have a seperate app for my novels and for my blosts. (I’m odd like that)

For my novel writing workflow, I simply open Quillpad and open the Markdown file then start letting the creative juices flow onto the page.

Conclusion

Overall, I am still happy with my choice of tablet and setup/workflow. Of course, things are subject to change… this is me after all, I can’t stay on one thing for long. BUT for the most part, my workflow on this tablet has stayed largely the same over the 6 months that I have been using it.

And that’s it for this blost, I hope you enjoyed the read and I’ll catch you in the next one. BYEEE!!!