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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 solarkraft »

krick wrote: post #191
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…

It's funny how your comment immediately makes me want to buy it, because the description on the site with all these silly photos and such for some reason got me thinking like "looks kinda nice, but since it's obviously something very Apple-like, it will be as restrictive as it gets, I won't be able to use it without some obligatory shitty web-account and I probably even won't be able to read *.cbz comics on it, so...…

> So I've got a feeling all these marketing people do advertising wrong somehow.

I have a feeling the HN crowd is a rather unusual one :)

High-quality normal user experience and a good power-user experience luckily aren't mutually exclusive at all (just appear together much too rarely).

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

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Post by dharma1 »

shard wrote: post #407
PatrolX wrote: post #243

Here you go, save yourself $590 https://www.amazon.com/Cimetech-Electronic-Scribble-Erasable... You're welcome.

If only you can download the image, it would be perfect for my use. Does anyone have a suggestion for such a device? All I want is an inexpensive device that can digitize what I write to replace my pile of notebooks. Doesn't need to erase, or display PDFs, or browse the web, or perform OCR.

you could just take a photo with your phone?

there are some smart pens that do what you're asking for - https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/best-smart-pens/

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

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Post by solarkraft »

jbeard4 wrote: post #294
krick wrote: post #273

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

> You mean rsync via USB? I mean rsync via USB (but over ssh protocol - the USB mounts as a network device, rather than as a disk drive). > Or can you rsync by WiFi without allowing it to send requests to their services? I have never connected the device to wifi, so I don't know about this.

While I haven't used this device, because it's just a standard Linux system, certainly.

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

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Post by daguar »

I love my reMarkable — got the 1.0 once the price dropped due to 2.0.

e-Ink is a blessing after so much time on screens, and the rudiments make it quite hackable. So I get a device that pretty much CAN'T try to grab my attention, a calm device, and I can modify it to do more if I want.

(For example, since it can OCR and send notes, I've prototyped a little "message queue" on the other end to receive my notes, parse them ["TEXT Jake this is a text"], and do actions.)

I've even produced some custom e-ink maps which look great for no-phone navigation. (Feel free to let me know if that's interesting to you, happy to share an example and how.)

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

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

criddell wrote: post #381
redisman wrote: post #312

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They do? My 7 year old kindle still seems to work just fine

Right, because the Kindle refreshes when you turn the page or use the menus. That would be a refresh every 30 seconds or so while you are using it. If you are using it as a primary display on a phone showing dynamic content, you are going to be refreshing it as quickly as you can the entire time you are using it. I think modern low end panels can maintain about 7 fps or a refresh every 0.15 seconds. That's a two orde…

I have never seen or heard of an epaper display wearing out but I don't know of anyone who has tested. I'm tempted to grab one of my spare screens and just hook it up to an arduino to constantly refresh it.

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

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Post by filmgirlcw »

Kudos wrote: post #434
jinnko wrote: post #336

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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…

Boox are GPL violators though.

Yeah, that's one of my main concerns with the Boox. A good friend of mine loves hers [1], but the unclear point of origin, the GPL violations (and I don't even like the GPL that much as a license -- but if you're going to build off of a GPL base, you better follow the damn license!), and the fact that Android -- while flexible -- is not ideal for note taking stuff (my friend said all the Android note taking apps are unusable so you're stuck with the built-in app -- and I'm less confident about the upkeep of that app when the company won't respect the GPL for the base OS/firmware of the device) is why I went with a reMarkable instead.

But Onyx definitely has a much wider variety of E Ink devices that's for sure.

[1]: https://gizmodo.com/i-unabashedly-love-this-android-e-ink-ta...

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

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Post by Polylactic_acid »

webkike wrote: post #277
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

Most people don't want to have to ssh in and hack some solution together that probably doesn't work well or would take a load of your time. They just want a setting screen with a list of cloud services so they can log in to the one they want.

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

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Post by cordite »

packetlost wrote: post #212
cordite wrote: post #24

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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.

I'm curious, what format do you consume IETF RFCs in?

I personally get the PDFs, sometimes links work.

PDFs are also a bit friendly for annotation, at least in my experience with GoodReader on the ipad.

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

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Post by jldugger »

haddr wrote: post #36

Remarkable 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.

Definitely one of those 'cool product, and I'll be happy to buy it when it ships, but am declining to preorder' scenarios.

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

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Post by dredmorbius »

crooked-v wrote: post #420
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…

This reminds me that what I'd really like in an ebook reader is something that will sync a local library down from 'the cloud' in some automated way over wifi, without having to manually go in and update or import or whatever with books like everything else I've seen. ReMarkable seems like it wouldn't be practical for that for lack of enough storage for my Calibre library, though.

Remarkable's onboard storage paucity is incomprehensible.
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