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Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by goatherders »

dalbasal wrote: post #16

Nice. I'd like to see e-ink continue to develop. What I want is an e-ink laptop with simple but good word processing, coding, text-mostly browsing, emails and such. I like my reader. It doesn't feel like "device" and I'm much more relaxed using it. Im on my third one and all three were on airplane mode since the day I bought them. Reading on tablet/phone triggers my hyperactive "device mode". Checking emails, hn, tin…

I would 100% buy this. I make lots of business trips that are 36 hours long. I have to take my laptop because some emails and documents just aren't conducive to handling on my phone. But a lightwieght and thin laptop style device with crazy good battery? And all it does is email, documents, and text browsing? Definitely would buy that and stuff it in my bag for these trips.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by plasticchris »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #197
wvenable wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For $600 it better do more than that. If I wanted something to write on that does nothing else I'd just use a pad of actual paper. And that's the real competition for a device like this -- paper. I think it would need to come down in price significantly for it to be just what you want it to be.

I have put a few hundred pages of notes through this thing since I've had it. That's a lot of paper I don't really want to carry around. I have old notebooks, binders, loose-leaf collections of everything from letters to myriad projects to random musings. My notes on this are organized into folders. When I'm at a SAR meeting, I tap "SAR", and there's everything from the last meeting and training notes and anything el…

Type what you can, draw diagrams on white boards or paper and take pictures of what you can't. Very simple and cheap workflow.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by monkmartinez »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #197
wvenable wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For $600 it better do more than that. If I wanted something to write on that does nothing else I'd just use a pad of actual paper. And that's the real competition for a device like this -- paper. I think it would need to come down in price significantly for it to be just what you want it to be.

I have put a few hundred pages of notes through this thing since I've had it. That's a lot of paper I don't really want to carry around. I have old notebooks, binders, loose-leaf collections of everything from letters to myriad projects to random musings. My notes on this are organized into folders. When I'm at a SAR meeting, I tap "SAR", and there's everything from the last meeting and training notes and anything el…

I can do all of that on an iPad pro... and a lot more. If I don't want to check my email, I don't.

So GP was right, this is competing with iPad Pro's and actual paper.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by thaumaturgy »

plasticchris wrote: post #202
thaumaturgy wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have put a few hundred pages of notes through this thing since I've had it. That's a lot of paper I don't really want to carry around. I have old notebooks, binders, loose-leaf collections of everything from letters to myriad projects to random musings. My notes on this are organized into folders. When I'm at a SAR meeting, I tap "SAR", and there's everything from the last meeting and training notes and anything el…

Type what you can, draw diagrams on white boards or paper and take pictures of what you can't. Very simple and cheap workflow.

Help me out here: what's a polite way to ask you why you think I'm such an idiot that that never occurred to me?

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by oever »

jay-anderson wrote: post #181

This looks good and feels like the larger screen e ink devices are getting better. Unfortunately I haven't found one which ticks the boxes I want (mostly to use for sheet music): - Hands free page turning (a bluetooth foot pedal would be idea) - Large size (at least as large as a4 paper). - Split screen page turn (That is do a page turn in two steps: (1) show the top of the next screen and the bottom of the current (…

Fellow musician here can confirm that two step page turns is very nice and easy to implement feature to have.

The device seems great for adding notes to sheet music.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by cptskippy »

lima wrote: post #175
cptskippy wrote: post #139

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So because it's not easy, it shouldn't be done? Personally I would be ok with my device disabling it's UI while it emulated a mass storage device when plugged into a host.

It's not only difficult, it's an inferior solution compared to a file-based protocol, so I'm glad they didn't go that route. However, here's what Martin (the CTO) has been playing with: https://github.com/reMarkable/vfatbuse

It might be inferior technically but from a user experience perspective it's superior on most every platform.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by willcodeforfoo »

JasonFruit wrote: post #125
dalbasal wrote: post #16

Nice. I'd like to see e-ink continue to develop. What I want is an e-ink laptop with simple but good word processing, coding, text-mostly browsing, emails and such. I like my reader. It doesn't feel like "device" and I'm much more relaxed using it. Im on my third one and all three were on airplane mode since the day I bought them. Reading on tablet/phone triggers my hyperactive "device mode". Checking emails, hn, tin…

I've actually been working on something of this sort with a battery-powered Raspberry PI running Debian and a Pervasive 7-inch e-Paper display. I whipped up a pretty decent prototype that had a terminal (so, Emacs, w3m, newsbeuter, etc.), PDF reader, and rough support for keyboard-driven X apps, but then my little girl got to the wiring with scissors, and my momentum died. (It also had a small character LED display t…

Looking forward to more information about this as well. I'm thinking about wiring up an e-Paper display to a Pi for some digital signage applications and curious how you got it all to work, and the prices for doing so!

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by Kiro »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #150
m-p-3 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still wish it was slightly more than that. If I could read my emails on that thing instead of my violet screen, I'd consider it for work.

No . I own one. I've had mine since last November. I love it. I love it in large part because when I'm working on it, I -can't- read email, browse HN, read blogs, check on a server. The only thing I can do is put thoughts to words and diagrams. What you want is a tablet, maybe something from Amazon. The ReMarkable is intended for a different audience, people who remember what it's like to be undistracted and want tha…

No, most people are not like you. Saying "impossible to do other things" is a main feature is just nonsense.

Re: The ReMarkable E Ink Tablet

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Post by dkarl »

Major_Grooves wrote: post #42

I've got one too. I take most of my notes in notebooks but would end up with loads of notes that I would never refer to again and I couldn't be bothered uploading to Evernote. I got this 100% in the assumption that hand-writing recognition will come eventually. Or maybe some kind of link to Evernote so they can do that bit. Funny the review mentions the battery life being good - it's really not as good as was expecte…

A good Evernote app would persuade me to buy this device. Otherwise I'd be more inclined to get a cheap Kindle and only use it as an e-reader.
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