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@dried at one point, I had a kneeling setup with my notebook propped up on an easel to the right of me. The point of friction here is your body needs to turn. Also, it's not easy writing on an easel!
If I had time, budget, space, etc to think about this problem again, I'd probably try using a swinging monitor stand for my notebooks, and make it a clamped 30-45 surface for a writing. That would make the task of moving the notebook out of the way a little bit easier.
@reillypascal I actually found Finale harder to use than Lilypond, especially when it came to things that you couldn't intuitively figure out with the Finale GUI.
When I needed to look up something, the documentation was this confusing mess of screenshots showing the menus to navigate and the buttons to press.
Lilypond documentation was much more straightforward: here's the term for the thing you want, here's an example of what it looks like, here's the code for that example. Usually I could work the example to fit my needs.
Towards the end of all my classes with sheet music assignments, I was all Lilypond.