A display with >10ms response times for writing does not cut it for me. I love the product, but this is something I can't compromise on. I really hope this problem on e-ink screens gets solved!
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
#112This seems like a perfect device for the single use of note taking. But something like https://www.boox.com would probably make more sense for a lot of people since it can run other Android note taking and e-reader apps.
I have a Boox Note and its has tragically lousy software. Its stuck on Android Lollipop with an ancient, vulnerable kernel, SELinux disabled by the manufacturer and the device phones home to Chinese servers for just about everything. Handwriting recognition doesnt work without phoning home. Ony,x does not respect the GPL, the bootloader is locked on their devices, and the firmware is obfuscated.
I explain it all in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21041543
This received some attention in the re--it community last month--the company still does not care [0]. I preordered a remarkable 2. As said by other people: after being abused by all of these conpanies who intentionally lock down the devices that /we purchase/ from them, spying on us and making the devices intentionallu obselescent, remarkable, purism, pine64 have infinite goodwill from me for making devices that you have actual control over.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#113I 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…
Running Emacs on it would be cool. - Can‘t do it on my expensive iPad Pro.
You can! Check out the demo video at 13m30s. It demos the X version of Emacs, but Emacs runs faster in '-nw' mode from the console.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#114I'm hoping to wait for reviews for this. I've been watching this for months. While waiting I've been thinking about how I'm going to use a combination of RSS reads, web archiving tools, pandoc, and some custom daemons on the device to setup syncing of hackernews + articals + news sites to the device to read during my commute (assuming we still have commutes in 4 months from now). Very excited to see a polished device…
Looks like the embargo just lifted today. reMarkable just sent out an email with links to reviews:
https://mailchi.mp/remarkable.com/first-remarkable-2-reviews...
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#115For someone with the current ReMarkable or with the 2.0, is it possible to use it as a drawing pad for remote meetings? I pre-ordered mine, but I want to know if this is even feasible.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
It must be heaven for Math teachers and professors. No more mounds of discarded paper. I'm sure they use tablets already, but the look and feel of writing figures on an iPad isn't as nice as epaper.
An iPad with a paper-like screen protector is very close.
This is true, but the paper-like screen protector market is a mess. I spent $40 on the official Paperlike 2, waited a month (preordered), applied it, and it was pretty bad. Not really like paper at all. Then I bought the knockoff-sounding "XIRON Paperfeel" for $15 and it was a vast improvement. Unfortunately they don't make one for the 12.9" iPad Pros with home button.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#117Would anyone here be interested in a eink phone running something like WebOS optimized for eink displays? I really feel WebOS was too early and PWAs make the barrier to entry much lower for a WebOS-like device.
Yes, but would prefer PostmarketOS or other pure Linux smartphone OS and there are couple of e-Ink phones out there running android apart from the YotaPhone.
[1]https://www.gizmochina.com/2019/10/24/hisense-a5-with-an-e-i...
[2]https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kingrow-k1-the-healthy-ph...
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#118This looks so nice, and I've been desperate for years for a great, fast-refreshing e-ink device and/or monitor, but the closed ecosystem is so disappointing. Their 'avoid distractions' marketing is fine and good, but locking down the device makes it a non-starter for me. At the very least I'd need a feed reader I can use (without some workaround where I send stuff through the "remarkable cloud"). Am I reading things…
Yes you can log in and run code. There is a proprietary driver for the fast screen refresh but everything else is open.
But is it open by design, or by coincidence?
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#119Bullshit EULA. https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000028275... https://github.com/reMarkable
Care to explain what's bullshit about it?
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#120I 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…
Do you use the text OCR feature?
Is that component opensource?