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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 codetrotter »

sandsmark wrote: post #7
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 do…

I didn’t realize it until visiting your HN profile but I see you are one of the people behind reMarkable!

And you guys are based in Norway too!

A few questions if you don’t mind.

How many people are in your company?

What are the current and future plans of the company in terms of product? Keep improving the software for the current hardware? Make new models with different hardware?

Where in Norway are you located?

Are you looking to increase the number of people working in your company? Planning to hire more software developers?

And in terms of the open source parts of it, I don’t have this product, nor have I really heard about it before, so I haven’t had a chance to try it but, is everything that the community would need available in order to create a fully open source alternative “firmware” (or really, a “distro” might be a better name for it since it’s running a Linux kernel and all) that can run on your hardware?

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by ngcc_hk »

The hard work of syncing kill me.

I have to switch from these kind of paper device as it is hard to manage info across them. Pad like devices are paper to me and kindle. It is more like in Star Trek you see captain use a few pad devices as if there were separate books/doc. It would be better if the two New iPad Air can manage the files in their app. As it can’t, I bought new old stock of macbook 12”. It is all portable and all work together.

as background I own kindle, boss the pad size and the huge one (max 2). Once the ipad has the paper like screen protector i did the switch. The newly bought 15” i9! Is not portable. Hence the macbook 12

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by michaelmior »

Tharkun wrote: post #22

I've stopped using mine. It's gathering dust in a corner somewhere. The hardware is pretty decent, and the writing experience is good. The software, on the other hand, is not good. There have been a couple of updates since I bought it, but they've been few and far between. Everything about it is mediocre. The file manager, meh. The note taking app, meh. The sync, meh. Getting stuff on it automatically is all but impo…

My experience has been quite different. I've found the software updates to be great and fix a lot of the issues I had with the device. As far as getting things on the device, my primary use case is reading academic papers, so I wrote a script that uploads documents from a Zotero folder.

https://michael.mior.ca/blog/zotero-remarkable-sync/

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by michaelmior »

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…

Agreed that syncing APIs aren't great, although there's been a lot of third party software developed now that makes the use case you describe at least possible.

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by diggan »

ACS_Solver wrote: post #28

I'm a fairly early adopter of the RM, and bought it for keeping handwritten notes. I don't produce a great amount of notes as a student might, but I find that the experience of writing really helps me think. Some thoughts on the device: * The writing experience is top notch. It feels like pen and paper. I recently had the chance to try Onyx Boox Max 2 (very briefly), and it's nowhere close to the RM as far as the tac…

> * It's an open-source Linux-based device but not entirely. The actual UI application isn't open source. But as others have said here, it has pretty good hacking potential, and it's definitely more open than most commercial devices. The company's support of open-source was another reason for me to buy it.

Can you tell us a bit more about this? Took a look at their website and searched around a bit, but don't find anything about it. What makes ReMarkable more open than most other commercial devices? Seems any device running Android and alike would be more open to hacking.

Also can't find anything about the company's support of open source.

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by Waterluvian »

What I need in my work life is an e ink tablet and the software to draw diagrams.

I have terrible legibility. Using mouse based draw apps feel so tedious for rough iterative sketches that it's hard to ever justify.

The app would ideally be like the Newton in the way it autocompletes the shapes. The tablet would likely be something like this one.

Re: The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review

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Post by sdrothrock »

cassowary37 wrote: post #30

Here's my use case: as a scientist, I'm often in the position of needing to review multiple 20+ page grants or manuscripts, resulting in hundreds of pages at a time. I find it far easier to read closely and retain info when I can write directly on the documents, then circle back to collect my comments, vs typing directly. At a certain point, looking at reams of paper coming out of the printer made me feel slightly si…

> I had tried the various ipad and equivalents, and the RM's big advantage is that it feels like reading/writing on paper, mostly - something about the matte screen and stylus, though the stylus is sort of craptastic.

I have a few artist friends who said the same thing about the iPad and Apple Pencil, but then they started buying paper-like non-glossy protective sheets and said it improved the experience immeasurably. I don't know how appropriate that would be for you, but they're apparently relatively cheap, so maybe you could give that a shot if you still have an iPad sitting around?

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