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Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by jonahbenton »

dheera wrote: post #106
jbeard4 wrote: post #13

I 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…

- What is the latest word (as of 2020) on reading Kindle books on the ReMarkable? Is there a tool that makes it easy to buy Kindle books and strip them of their DRM? - Is the ReMarkable capable of running an open source OS behind the hood? Is it a hacker-friendly piece of hardware in case ReMarkable runs out of business in the future? I was thinking about getting the ReMarkable 2 if only because my Kindle's display i…

Removing DRM from kindle books and converting to PDF, and shipping them as PDFs to the remarkable cloud to sync to the device, are independently solved problems, available as OSS.

To my knowledge there is no tool that does both. Nor, better, that also includes the purchase and download steps at Amazon.

I personally have automation for all 3 individually but have not wired them together. I think there is a nice little business awaiting someone who does that.

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by tyre »

jbeard4 wrote: post #13

I 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…

Fantastic. I didn’t see anything about this on their site (admittedly a small percent of users would know/care what this means.)

Do you know of any RSS or saved articles sync? I use Feedly right now. Would love to save Reader Mode versions of long form to read/annotate. Right now I print them but…a lot of paper.

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by jbeard4 »

owenversteeg wrote: post #169
AshamedCaptain wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Note they mean open as in "it runs a random old Linux kernel and you can have the root password", not as in "open source". Nothing whasoever from their software is actually open source, and nothing indicates they may not decide to simply close down the platform in the future (e.g. for "security" reasons)

Sure, but that's miles ahead of almost any other consumer device you can buy today. I'll take it.

Yes, I meant "open" in the sense that you do not need to jailbreak it to run software that has not been approved by the manufacturer, not "open" in the sense that the operating system is open source.

Although, I think a lot of their operating system is open source and on their github page (linux kernel and uboot configuration): https://github.com/reMarkable

Their Qt-based shell software, xochitl, is not open source.

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by harrylepotter »

I've got mine on pre-order, scheduled for delivery in October. One of the things i'm most looking forward to experimenting with is reStream - https://github.com/rien/reStream . It'd be amazing to be on meetings and be able to share diagrams and drawings in real-time! Certainly better than the webcam i've got pointing down at my desk at the moment!

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by the_pwner224 »

zaksoup wrote: post #132
jm_l wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You would definitely notice a 21ms lag while writing. Ideally you want to get below 10ms, but for physical-object-like responsiveness 1ms is the standard. See this old video from Microsoft research which demonstrates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4

I just watched the video and maybe I missed it but doesn't that mean that in order to have 1ms latency you'd have to have a screen refresh rate of 1000 frames per second? That seems like it would cause serious cost increases for displays, controllers, and graphics cards.

The 10ms demo is almost as good and much easier to accomplish, requiring only 100 fps instead of 1000. Actually you would need more than 1k fps - suppose it takes 0.5 ms for the touch sensors and CPU processing and graphics updates; then half the time after a touch you would miss the frame and have to wait 1 ms for the next display update.

To me 1ms doesn't seem worth it given the diminishing returns. Something like 5-10 would be way easier to do.

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by jbeard4 »

tyre wrote: post #202
jbeard4 wrote: post #13

I 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…

Fantastic. I didn’t see anything about this on their site (admittedly a small percent of users would know/care what this means.) Do you know of any RSS or saved articles sync? I use Feedly right now. Would love to save Reader Mode versions of long form to read/annotate. Right now I print them but…a lot of paper.

I use Mozilla Pocket for saved articles, and I have been meaning to try this:

https://github.com/glidergeek/pocket2rm

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by setr »

zaroth wrote: post #159
zaksoup wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just watched the video and maybe I missed it but doesn't that mean that in order to have 1ms latency you'd have to have a screen refresh rate of 1000 frames per second? That seems like it would cause serious cost increases for displays, controllers, and graphics cards.

If it helps, you just have to refresh the (very small number of) pixels under pressure, and only at such a high right for a brief moment while they are being pressed. I wonder if you could have a separate layer which physically (chemically) responded to the pressure to make it look like the screen was drawing your line, but which only lasted for about 50ms after the pressure is removed. This chemical layer would be v…

You'd be stuck with essentially one "material" though -- eg color or brush or whatever -- but I could see its utility as a dedicated single-purpose device (like only intended for sketching/notes -- which I guess is mostly true of remarkable anyways)

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by matsemann »

jordache wrote: post #146

the marketing video intrigued me.. then I found real world reviews.. It's gonna be a nope for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJF_HmMsGRE

Everyone I know that has it uses it for note taking, pdf reading and drawing simple diagrams. Unless you're buying it do draw art I wouldn't buy it based on it's merit of drawing art.

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by Twirrim »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #110
marvindanig wrote: post #71

> …on an eyestrain-inducing glossy screens. Are you sure about that? [1] [1] https://bubblin.io/blog/daylight-energy-fatigue

Paper scatters light, smooth glass will reflect perfectly any window, light or glare. We usually don't notice it because we have trained ourselves to tilt our devices to minimize reflections. Glossy glass is 21st century sexy, though. It looks premium compared to clear plastic.

> Glossy glass is 21st century sexy, though. It looks premium compared to clear plastic.

I really hate the glossy screen thing. I have this strange idea where I want to see what is actually on the screen, instead of a detailed reflection of stuff behind me. Crazy, right?

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