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The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by j-pb »

I agree with the assessment that opening up the remarkable software stack would be a huge selling point.

I bought one for my girlfriend and she's super happy with it, but having a mosh console on there would allow her to ditch her macbook.

Being able to code on it would also cause me to get one and ditch my iPad Pro.

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by ThePadawan »

I bought and returned one a year ago.

I found that the two use cases I wanted most...:

* quick note taking

* syncing and reading long books

didn't work out that well.

As the author says, APIs for syncing are no fun. I also found that the tablet didn't keep up with my writing quickly enough at all.

It also didn't really allow for "let me just jot this down and then check it out later on my PC". Like, all I wanted was a "notes-.png" automatically in a folder on my PC to look at later, and that seemed completely impossible.

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by savolai »

ThePadawan wrote: post #3

I bought and returned one a year ago. I found that the two use cases I wanted most...: * quick note taking * syncing and reading long books didn't work out that well. As the author says, APIs for syncing are no fun. I also found that the tablet didn't keep up with my writing quickly enough at all. It also didn't really allow for "let me just jot this down and then check it out later on my PC". Like, all I wanted was…

The writing experience improved a lot with an update this autumn. Doesn't seem slow at all for me, makes me wonder if you had a flawed or early version.

https://blog.remarkable.com/software-update-1-8-improved-bru...

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by ThePadawan »

savolai wrote: post #5
ThePadawan wrote: post #3

I bought and returned one a year ago. I found that the two use cases I wanted most...: * quick note taking * syncing and reading long books didn't work out that well. As the author says, APIs for syncing are no fun. I also found that the tablet didn't keep up with my writing quickly enough at all. It also didn't really allow for "let me just jot this down and then check it out later on my PC". Like, all I wanted was…

The writing experience improved a lot with an update this autumn. Doesn't seem slow at all for me, makes me wonder if you had a flawed or early version. https://blog.remarkable.com/software-update-1-8-improved-bru...

I bought mine in May, so that sounds like I just missed it.

Bummer!

Unfortunately, retailers in Switzerland don't stock it, otherwise I would like to check out the improvements to confirm that my experience was just blemished by being an early adopter.

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by sandsmark »

j-pb wrote: post #2

I agree with the assessment that opening up the remarkable software stack would be a huge selling point. I bought one for my girlfriend and she's super happy with it, but having a mosh console on there would allow her to ditch her macbook. Being able to code on it would also cause me to get one and ditch my iPad Pro.

> [...] but having a mosh console on there would allow here to ditch her macbook. [..] Being able to code on it would also cause me to get one and ditch my iPad Pro.

Not officially supported or endorsed in any way, shape or form, and I don't even know if it even still builds, but I did a quick proof of concept porting fingerterm; https://iskrembilen.com/fingerterm+vim.jpg

https://github.com/reMarkable/fingerterm

I don't think it's very usable in practice, though, but it was cool for about five minutes to muck about in a terminal emulator on an e ink display.

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