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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

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Post by marcus_holmes »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #148
laksdjfkasljdf wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use the text OCR feature? Is that component opensource?

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)

This is the thing I'm wary of. That when it does get to mass-market appeal, it'll be targetted by bad people, and then locked down, and this is why we can't have nice things.

I don't want to buy an expensive hackable pad of paper that I then have to fight the manufacturer to keep hackable.

I'm fed up of tech that stops me owning it properly so that idiots can be saved from their ignorance.

I'm waiting for v3. Let's see what happens then.

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

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Post by krick »

jbeard4 wrote: post #265
pre wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed. "All your work is instantly synced to the cloud" Ugh. Nope nope nope. But now maybe sounds like I could turn that off and just rsync the files to my Debian tower. That is more win.

> But now maybe sounds like I could turn that off and just rsync the files to my Debian tower. Yes, I can confirm this. I have never connected my device to wifi. I backup my notes to my home server using rsync.

You mean rsync via USB? Or can you rsync by WiFi without allowing it to send requests to their services?

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

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Post by jbeard4 »

danShumway wrote: post #230
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…

The device is open -- does that extend to the notes and filesystem itself? I'm very interested in the ReMarkable 2, but I want to be able to write scripts to handle stuff like syncing. If this is something where I know I can get good integration with Emacs/Org-mode on my desktop (letting me insert diagrams on the fly into org-mode files, making one searchable interface between handwritten notes and typed notes, etc),…

> The device is open -- does that extend to the notes and filesystem itself? I'm very interested in the ReMarkable 2, but I want to be able to write scripts to handle stuff like syncing.

Yes, the notes just live on the filesystem. You can fetch them using scp or rsync. They are in a proprietary file format, but they are not encrypted, and I think there are some open source projects on github that let you view them on your desktop.

> Especially if the handwriting recognition stuff they have is something I could hook around.

I think the handwriting stuff lives on their cloud and is proprietary, so I have never tried it.

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

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Post by chx »

I am deeply disappointed in the general progress in this field. I had the CrossPad so long ago, you see. What the CrossPad could do was drawing on a piece of paper (any paper, this was not one of this magical dot things) and transfer the strokes in a vector format to the computer. What the ReMarkable can do is the ... same except the paper step is skipped and now you draw on a screen. But you still can't do anything remarkable ;) on the device with your strokes. It's clear from https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000266143... OCR is not on device because you need to be on wifi and logged in. Hurrah for twenty plus years of progress...?

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

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Post by codesternews »

Buy the Pen and Paper.

Nothing can feel like Pen and Paper without Pen and Paper. I stopped all this and bought $2 5 subject notebook and it relieved my anxiety and give me outlet to express.

Just buy Pen and Paper and stopped looking nostaliga and looking things in other things.

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

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Post by webkike »

efitz wrote: post #270

I love my remarkable 1 but don’t use it very much because I don’t want to be tethered to yet another company’s cloud, and I want document syncing not to require another app or website. I won’t buy a R2 until they add support for one of the big cloud storage providers like Dropbox or OneDrive or gDrive or something. The device itself is great; the OS is a little slow and takes a little getting used to navigate; recent…

As the top comment mentions the remarkable runs embedded Linux, it would be pretty simple to make your own syncing software and there’s likely alternative open source programs already made to do exactly what you want

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

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Post by generalizations »

Cyphase wrote: post #160
laksdjfkasljdf wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you use the text OCR feature? Is that component opensource?

It seems not, unless the server code is hiding somewhere publically. https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000266143... > Wi-Fi connection and log-in is required > You need to be connected to a Wi-Fi network and logged in to a reMarkable account (my.remarkable.com) in order to use the handwriting conversion feature.

I would be very surprised if a commercial-grade handwriting conversion tool could run on that device. It sounds to me like they're sending off the data somewhere else to get converted into text.

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

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Post by jbeard4 »

cominous wrote: post #225
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…

Reminds me of this digital typewriter project using a e-ink display: https://alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer The problem with this project was the lack of a affordable e-ink display with a decent refresh rate. Would love to see a real terminal on the ReMarkable. A terminal + vim + usb keyboard would be the perfect distaction-free writing tool.

> Reminds me of this digital typewriter project using a e-ink display: https://alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer

Related: https://github.com/dps/remarkable-keywriter

> Would love to see a real terminal on the ReMarkable. A terminal + vim + usb keyboard would be the perfect distaction-free writing tool.

I agree: e-ink display + terminal + vim + mechanical keyboard would make me very happy.

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

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Post by Karunamon »

andrewnc wrote: post #236
birdyrooster wrote: post #216

I highly suggest this Paperfeel screen protector for iPad Pro https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QMV54LY

I've heard these damage the pencil, is that not the case?

Some of the reviews call that out, eg: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RRKL2ML06BX89?ASI...
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