For this exact reason, I decided to instead buy Surface Pro 9 and installed Ubuntu Linux on it. It works amazingly well. Moreover, all my notes are automatically converted to PDF and syned to my gitlab.
I use this kernel, you can use this with most operating systems. Once things are setup, everything is extremely smooth.
I use xournal++ for note writing, and using GNOME is necessary. KDE doesn't have support for screen rotation etc. When you use GNOME, make sure to disable gestures and screen edge detection, because that might occasionally cause interfere with writing.
So, the workflow is quite simple with xournal++, you run a `inotify` based watched which automatically compiles and pushes stuff on every save. I of course assume that only `xournal++` on tab can change those handwritten notes. You can get some fancier git logic if needed. By putting the baselink as `https://gitlab.com/user/repo/-/jobs/artifacts/main/raw`, you can get the list of PDFs directly on readme of your git repo. pretty nifty for referring to later.
while inotifywait -e modify,create,delete,move $INPUT;
do
publish.script --input $INPUT --output $OUTPUT
done
# publish.script
pushd $INPUT
pushd $INPUT
printf "# Handwritten Notes\n\n" > readme.md
printf "| Index | Date | Title |\n" >> readme.md
printf "| --- | --- | --- |\n" >> readme.md
INDEX=0
for i in $(ls -r *.xopp); do
BASENAME=$(basename $i .xopp)
PDFNAME=$BASENAME.pdf
xournalpp --create-pdf=$OUTPUT/$PDFNAME $i
BASENAME=$(basename $i .xopp)
PDFNAME=$BASENAME.pdf
LINK=$BASELINK/$PDFNAME$SUFFIX
INDEX=$(( INDEX + 1))
DATE=$(echo ${BASENAME:0:10})
printf "| %d | %s | [%s](%s) |\n" $INDEX $DATE $BASENAME $LINK >> readme.md
done
if [[ $(git diff --stat) != '' ]]; then
git add .
git commit -m "$(date)"
git push
fi
popd
