Yes. The main reason I do not want to take notes on paper is the lack of instant backup and sync. These devices seem to have the same drawback.
Maybe you could have networking enabled, but only in the background and without any software at all that could distract, just a background service syncing files?
I used to have a laptop running FreeDOS for distraction free hobby programming. Used a USB floppy drive and moved files using floppies, which seemed appropriate for a DOS laptop, but was not very convenient. If I set something like that up again I would probably use Linux or some BSD instead, with network in the background somehow. (But possibly DOSBox or QEMU+FreeDOS for the user interface to be less distracting).
Maybe you could have networking enabled, but only in the background and without any software at all that could distract, just a background service syncing files?
I used to have a laptop running FreeDOS for distraction free hobby programming. Used a USB floppy drive and moved files using floppies, which seemed appropriate for a DOS laptop, but was not very convenient. If I set something like that up again I would probably use Linux or some BSD instead, with network in the background somehow. (But possibly DOSBox or QEMU+FreeDOS for the user interface to be less distracting).