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?
i guess more friction will wear the nub down more but it's not a big effect
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
#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
- 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…
> 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? You go to amazon.com/myk, switch to the Content tab, three dots next to the book, Download & transfer via USB. You then drag-and-drop them into Calibre with this add-on set up: https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools There's some initial setup re…
> You'll have to convert them to epub or PDF to be able to read them on ReMarkable, but that's as easy as right-clicking a book within Calibre and choosing "convert".
There is a significant omission here. Converting Epub to PDF doesn't necessarily yield a good quality.
As a matter of fact, at some point I was so annoyed by the relatively nondeterministially poor quality (I stress "relatively"), that now, every time I purchase something from the Kindle store, I download and use the pirated PDF version, which is never worse than the Calibre output (I guess pirates actually use Calibre and tweak the process per-book).
It's very annoying to highlight a converted ebook, and find 80 pages into it, that the conversion cut text lines/diagrams in half.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#283Earlier 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…
re: setr
> 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)
I'd be curious about human perception of color matching/etc at the <50ms level - I'd suspect if you had _something_ that then became the actual color/brush, our visual system would probably just backfill to say it'd always been that color/texture.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#284A honest question, who really need this ? A pen and a notebook is a couple of euros ..
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#285Texture matters. I bought this screen cover for my iPad for the explicit use of adding texture since 99% of my iPad usage is with Apple Pencil. I had read it has a paper texture unlike other slick covers: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00G4SA1FG/ref=ppx_yo_mob_b_i...
Curious what others have tried!
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#286Buy 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.
I kick started the first Remarkable and found it indispensable for grad school. It's just not practical to carry around a printout of every paper you've ever read for any of your classes, but a nice eink tablet meant I could read without eye strain and have older sources if I needed them.
I agree it's a poor replacement for writing notes on paper and I paired it with traditional notebooks for notes in class.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#287Remarkable haven't yet delivered the 2.0 device. Let's first see when it appears on the market. I has been delayed twice so far. So far it's in "pre-order" mode.
Ohh, ok that explains why my March order has not shipped. I sort of expected that... but given that they did ship RM1 I was hoping for quicker delivery.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#288I 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's it like for drawing?
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#289Buy 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.
I'm a big fan of pen-and-paper.
But years ago, on a Windows 8 Tablet, I copy/pasted my first handwritten note. That's when I knew that there's a huge future in the UI design of "paper-like" digital written notes.
Copy/paste. "Insert". Zoom. The digital landscape can make superior paper for thinking. It's still not as good as paper, but every year new devices come out and push the limits of UI / paper-like feel.
Eventually, someone will figure it out. Until then, tech-nerds will play with the toy and try to figure out how to make it better.
Artists have largely moved to digital ink / digital drawing styles. Its a bit odd that "thinkers" haven't found a computerized tool for "writing & thinking" yet.
Clearly, Remarkable (I never used this tablet before) is aiming at this niche. I'd probably give it a try, with a cautious degree of pessimism. I still haven't found anything as good as a $20 paper-notebook (Leuchtturm1917) and a $10 pencil (Pentel Kerry). But I await the day when some technology can replicate the experience.
Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
I put a textured surface on my iPad Pro to great effect. It's one of those stick-on "screen protector" affairs. I find it much nicer if you predominantly use the Apple pencil (Procreate, etc.). I haven't yet tried it with the new handwriting recognition in iOS.
I frequently hear that screen protectors which mimic paper surface lead to a much faster abrasion of the tip of the Apple pencil. Is this the same in your case?
I also added a screen cover to my iPad to get texture with Pencil.
I haven't seen fast abrasion with this cover. Pencil tips seem to last a really long time.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00G4SA1FG/ref=ppx_yo_mob_b_i...