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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 pbhjpbhj »

jmull wrote: post #6
truth_seeker wrote: post #2

Any reason why should i buy it instead of iPad Pro 2020 or recently announced Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 plus ?

Well, it’s $399, which is very different price point than an iPad Pro with Apple pencil. They detail some other advantages, like the texture of the surface, though we can’t evaluate that without getting one in hand. It’s a much more focused device, which is a pro and a con. Personally, I’ll stick with my iPad Pro, but I hope this is actually good and successful.

Just to add some figures from UK:

With the pen that has an eraser, and the flip cover, is £479. Normal price ~£600 (~$800) in UK.

iPad Pro 11" with pencil comes to £890. Surface Pro 7 £870.

But a Surface Go 2 with pen is £500 and chapter iPad options are around too.

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Post by codesternews »

aeturnum wrote: post #286
codesternews wrote: post #276

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.

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.

I tried some of solutions. But I could not replace. My needs are less. I use for journaling and some study.

I like the feel of paper and pen and I just think it can't be replaced.

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

amirhirsch wrote: post #227
capableweb wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here last time ReMarkable came up. Saw the marketing page and really liked the hardware and expected it to be locked down, so moved on to reading the comments. Bunch of comments describing how it's open, runs linux and you can basically just ssh into it and run stuff. Made a pre-order right there and then and now waiting for it. I think we're simply such a small user-base that they don't think to include it on t…

Same boat lol. Saw the open-source comments and decided to buy one so I could make a sheet-music reader that changes pages automatically using facial cues from an ESP32-CAM

I'm slightly astonished (have been for a while) at the fact that no-one (as far as I know) have developed a Guitar Hero style e-ink sheet-music reader. Imagine how much easier you'd make life for kids learning how to play music! Software and hardware wise, it's got to be well within the realm of feasibility.

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Post by yuchi »

amelius wrote: post #118
justincormack wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Absolutely by design. The founder is a prominent Linux community member.

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Post by grishka »

eugeniub wrote: post #126
bgorman wrote: post #72

Would 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.

There's a company called Yota that made YotaPhone, an Android phone with a normal screen on the front and an e-ink screen on the back. Very cool concept, but it was poorly executed. The last version was released in 2017, and the company went bankrupt in 2019.

Yota the carrier is still going strong though. I would've noticed if it went bankrupt because that would've left me with no service. You meant Yota Devices.

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Post by jinnko »

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…

Boox devices are also very accessible as the run Android and you can install anything on them either from the Play store (requires manual setup at first) or F-droid, along with the usual adb access. I have the Nova Pro which I absolutely love. It has configurable screen refresh rates so it's possible to use a web browser with scrolling. You can install your favourite file sync app. Lately I've been using KDE connect to send/receive files. Writing on it is good and the notes app supports OCR that I found can make reasonable sense of my chicken scratches.

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Post by sixothree »

Twirrim wrote: post #210
ASalazarMX wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

You are very much not alone here. Especially on portable devices.

People are very much attracted (I would say addicted) to bright shiny colors. Device manufacturers know this and thus glossy screens are the norm.

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Post by driverdan »

cordite wrote: post #24
roel_v wrote: post #16

How 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...

Not sure about normal ebooks, but it's been a fantastic tool for getting through IETF RFCs. No distractions, easy on the eyes. Would be nice if the contrast were even better for low light environments. Maybe this 2.0 would do it. I seem to have lost my pen though, so I'm not sure what I'll do for any annotation now.

They sell replacement pens.

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Post by Infinitesimus »

birdyrooster wrote: post #218
salimmadjd wrote: post #214

I love hand writing and note taking and been eyeing ReMarkable for a while. However, each time I think about buying it, I have a hard time justifying it over an iPad Pro with a pencil. It feels like an iPad will give me more bang for a buck though with heftier weight.

And with this protector you can get the same feel as paper https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QMV54LY

Have you tried this one for a while? Reviews suggest it's very harsh on the pencil tip.
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