The latency is also an interesting exercise for touch typing: you either have to be confident enough to believe that you've typed the right thing, or slow down to match the screen.
Using an eink screen as almost my primary monitor for a few months has firstly made all the difference to my eyestrain — I can actually read for more than 10 minutes at a time now, and very likely won't have a headache by the end of the day — but has also made me see UI design in a completely different way. Dark themes don't work well on eink, but I can't really criticise designers for that; what I can say though is that many pages simply don't have adequate contrast, regardless of their colour scheme.
@matigo I don't know if it's just nostalgia talking, but I get the feeling that basically all the features I care about were introduced by Snow Leopard, give or take a version. (And I do miss the Aqua UI days.)
It seems there's no way to bring back Spotlight's preview column as a default [apple.stackexchange.com] which is an insane design decision.
I think it's time to revisit the old alternatives. Let's start with Alfred.
Shame Quicksilver development isn't what it used to be. That was a classic.
Spotlight (Mac) has been a disaster for a while now. The calculator used to display the results in a huge font, as did currency conversions etc., now it's so small as to be impossible to use, and apparently with no way to adjust.
Even worse on an eink screen.
@matigo Probably. I'm not too annoyed about it: I did get it for 1/5 of RRP because it had a broken USB cable (needed heatshrink).
@matigo As close as possible. The on-board memory, stupidly, doesn't store settings for the volume wheel and media keys, so I can't use the volume wheel as a scroll wheel on Mac. They also don't allow you to re-program the Windows key, which is bizarre.