I have the first version, and I really like it. The experience of writing on a textured e-Ink display is completely different than trying to do the same thing on smooth glass. (iPad Pro/Apple Pencil)
ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
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Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#12Any reason why should i buy it instead of iPad Pro 2020 or recently announced Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 plus ?
Did you look at this product? It has an e-ink display. That makes it very different from an Ipad.
Yeah, the correct question is probably how it competes with something like Kindle.
The presentation made me fairly intrigued.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#13I have been very happy with my ReMarkable 1, and have ordered the ReMarkable 2.0.
Hacker News might be interested in the active development community around the device: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
The device is open. It's just an embedded linux device. You can ssh into it, and run arbitrary code. The SDK is based on Qt. You can also connect a keyboard to it over a USB-on-the-go port.
I have been imagining porting a lightweight Qt-based virtual terminal to the device and using it as an e-ink unix terminal. Alas, I have not yet had the cycles to complete this project.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#14Has anyone had an experience with this? It looks pretty cool, although I'm probably never going to use it since I write mostly with my keyboard.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you look at this product? It has an e-ink display. That makes it very different from an Ipad.
Yeah, the correct question is probably how it competes with something like Kindle. The presentation made me fairly intrigued.
It's not an e-reader but a tablet computer. The founder of ReMarkable is (or was?) a KDE developer, so they supposedly do a lot of things right when it comes to developer experience, openness, and documentation.
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#16How good is a ReMarkable as an ebook reader? I don't care that much about the writing, but having a large size ebook reader that can display A4 pdfs in acceptable quality would be a game changer for me...
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#17For me a big problem is that a lot of the things I want to save, mark up, and revisit (archive or search or share) are articles from webpages or PDFs - neither of which this eInk display is practical for.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#18Beyond the obvious differences to a tablet like the iPad, an interesting fact about the reMarkable is, that you can just ssh into the device to do your data exchange. Syncing documents should be as easy as writing some scripts on your PC. Which should appeal especially to Linux users.
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#19For me a big problem is that a lot of the things I want to save, mark up, and revisit (archive or search or share) are articles from webpages or PDFs - neither of which this eInk display is practical for.
It claims to support PDFs, does that not work well for some reason?
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#20When this device has an e-ink colour display then I would purchase it.
Until then: No Thanks and No deal.
EDIT: Not only that, Remarkable 2.0 and 1.0 are not even 64 bit and still use 32 bit processors in 2020. Completely pointless to use beyond 2038.
Like I said, wait for e-ink colour and 64 bit or don't bother.