Month: January 2019

The best digital notebooks in 2024

The best digital notebooks in 2024

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › There will always be a place for pens, pencils, and paper, but a digital notebook can make it a lot more convenient to get your analog ideas onto your computer for editing and sharing. They offer the same tactile feedback as a traditional notebook—doodle, sketch, annotate, write, and edit to your heart’s content—but allow you to digitize them with ease. In some cases, a digital notebook can be an entirely computerized device where you use a stylus to sketch on a touch screen, though these devices stop short of being a full-on tablet like the iPad, which can cause distractions. The best digital notebooks will fit seamlessly into your existing writing workflows with added benefits you won’t get elsewhere. How we chose the best digital notebooks Our recommendations for the best digital notebooks are based on in-depth research and hands-on testing. We considered the most common users: office workers, students, and creatives, and made sure to …

Durba’s Escape: Secular Rescue Story

Durba’s Escape: Secular Rescue Story

Secular Rescue is a program of the Center for Inquiry that identifies those writers, activists, and everyday citizens in countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Iraq who live under the threat of violence and death and provides financial and diplomatic assistance to help these them escape to safety. A woman going by the name of Durba Zahan has been at the epicenter of the crisis from before the time of the Center for Inquiry’s direct involvement with the threats to secularists and free expression in Bangladesh. A student of art and history, Durba was familiar with the work of the secularist bloggers and activists that had been hacked to death or gunned down for their outspoken criticism of religious extremism. In 2013, hardline religious political parties cast women bloggers as threats to the state. “They tagged us as being whores, that we did not belong to good families and we should be raped and killed,” Durba told us. That same year, fellow atheist blogger Rajib Haidar was hacked to death. It would be the first …