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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

#591
1. $399 is kinda expensive. They should get it down to 2. Offer a place for getting books as well - or partner with Amazon for books - if not there, this may be coming I guess. Then people don't need Kindle.

3. They do not talk about security in their demo video. Don't know how they save what I write. Encryption / password / backup etc.,

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

#592

I didn't know about this before I bought an iPad. I recently added a paper-textured screen protector (similar to Paperlike) and now I can't stop using it. I really recommend it for those who have an Apple Pencil - its great

Which screen protector do you recommend? Also, does using such paper-textured protector decrease the life of Apple pencil?

The best one I've tried is the Nilkin brand. As to the Apple pencil, I'm on ~9 months of use and the nib feels the same as the spare that came in the box when I got the pencil so I don't have reason to believe its damaging it

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

#593

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Their support page does imply if you want to avoid cloud sync you should keep it offline, but perhaps that is just because it is the most brief/user friendly way to describe the situation. There definitely isn't an explicit option to turn off the cloud sync in the device settings, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are workarounds to this once you ssh in. You could also maybe block internet access to the device via…

The cloud sync requires an account, which the device works fine without. So just don't sign up. I think I'm missing out on features I don't care about, like OCR and emailing docs to people, but it's well worth it.

But can you have it sync automatically in the same way with your own private cloud? That would be really awesome.

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

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It's better than any e-ink device for sure and it's competitive with the iPad Pro. I think the latter now has somewhere around 15-20ms of lag? So it's close. But honestly they're different devices. Similar in many ways of course but different too. I don't think it's really apples to apples.

IpadOS cut pencil latency to 9ms.

That number was calculated by taking a high-speed camera and watching how long it took the line to catch up with the pencil. They cheat on the metric by juicing up the prediction. You can see this by flicking the pencil and then picking it up -- the line will go farther than you intended. And if you change directions, the line will take more than 9ms to catch up with you.

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

#595
I got the reMarkable as a tool to make my writing process more natural, and less cumbersome. I have been editing a novel, which means carrying around a stack of 250 pages so I can add notes in the margins before I get back to the computer to write the next revision. It’s heavy, and I’m tired of printing the full book so that I can have that tactile experience of writing on the page. The reMarkable tablet gives me a way to continue my writing processes without paper. Going to try this new version!

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

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Is it an ARM Debian-based distro or Android or something else?

It's definitely an ARM linux distro, I'm not entirely sure which one to be honest.

It is a customised yocto Linux iirc.

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

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You should check out Rocksmith. Its guitar hero with real guitar, pretty cool stuff. I don't see how a scrolling format like guitar hero would fit the slow refresh rate of an e-ink display, but perhaps you imagine something different.

Absolutely love that toy, unfortunately they stopped producing DLCs for it some time ago to do something else... I wonder what that is.

They are working on RockSmith 2, you don't know this from me.

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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...…

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…

I think including such details in marketing would even detract from the "it's easy and intuitive for everybody" point they try to make.

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I'm in the middle of my PhD and switched from printing papers to reading them on my iPad roughly two years ago. There are some things I miss from paper but overall I found the pros to overweight the cons. I haven't found that flipping back and forth on iPad is that horrible, to be honest. Not sure how helpful this will be but I'll share what I've been doing for now. I use the following apps: * Mendeley (to organize p…

Let me know what you think about Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ We launched about a year ago and are REALLY close to a 2.0 release.

It would be nice if you did not initiate a download on my behalf when I merely visit the "download" page via the main navigation. I would expect at least prompt for confirmation before you push a 180 MB binary to me.
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