Does remarkable2 have Bluetooth though, that's really what I am looking for. I want to be able to pair this with a keyboard and stop staring at my laptop.
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
#602Been seeing a lot of FB adverts on RM 2.0 did a second take when I saw it at the top of HN! Feels like and advert but its not I guess yet the product is not live so a lot of speculation on how good or not it might be. Just strange to see this on top of HN.
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#603I'm glad is in the front page. I own the first version and I'm quite happy and use it massively. I use it to read and annotate papers and technical books. This is for me what keeps it from perfection:
- Bigger screen would be great for my use case
- Software. As have been said repeatedly here the tablet is open. This is true in the sense that in order to comply with the GPL3 it's very easy to SSH to the tablet which runs Linux. This is awesome. However I think a little more support to developers would be great in the form of documentation instead of reverse engineering. Lot's of people think of ways of improving the software and this would make it much easier and better for end users (for example better file transfer, more file formats... in a reliable way)
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#604Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Looks great - will check it out.
Noticed you have a typo on the homepage under the uni logos.
"Discovery why Polar [...]" should read "Discover why Polar [...]"
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You mean rsync via USB? Or can you rsync by WiFi without allowing it to send requests to their services?
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…
Sounds like the optimal approach would be to run some kind of server on your own hardware, and update the /etc/hosts on the device to point at it.
Shouldn't be too hard to figure out what it's communicating over the network, then put together a server to match that and do useful things with it.
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I don't own one of them, but I would surely be able to instruct my router to put it in jail like I can every other device. LAN-only.
Fine until you're elsewhere.
People have mentioned you can ssh into it, so it might be possible to make changes to the /etc/hosts file.
That's assuming the device doesn't use straight IP addresses for whatever it's communicating with. That's possible, but pretty unlikely.
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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...…
Yeah, I pre-ordered one because a friend has an rM1 and used a bunch of hacks and that was what made me interested. At the time (~18 months ago), I was uninterested in paying the money for one, but when the rM2 came out at pre-order for the lower price (the reMarkable 1 is now $100 less than the rM2) and with better battery/faster processor/USB-C, I pre-ordered. I'm in the second batch and because of delays, I won't…
> primarily an e-reader
It has no capability to be used as an e-reader? eg ePub's, etc.
Ouch. That outright kills the idea of this for me. :(
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#608Is anyone else excited purely on the basis that this isn't a hardware product from Apple, Google, Samsung, Amazon or some other large company? I know little about it, but it looks great too.
Scares me too - wouldn't wanna drop hundreds of dollars on a thing with limited functionality (esp I/O) that might go out of business.
It being a smaller company has its risks for sure. But having the product be their sole focus, rather than it being one among a hundred products of a large company that's ready to throw it away at any time, that too has its advantages - a lesson many of us have learnt the hard way.
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#609I recently bought the ReMarkable 1 (wasn't willing to wait for preorder on the 2, and the differences don't look that significant). I kinda love it: I'm a professor, and 99% of my use is in reading article PDFs---it's a vastly better experience than reading on an eyestrain-inducing glossy screens or printing off. One major annoyance, though, is that it's clunky to switch between documents---I like to take notes in a…
For a better PDF experience, you might want to try 'koreader'. The native PDF support on my Kobo Forma was so bad I was ready to return it, before finding this. It's an open source PDF/epub reader that you can install on Remarkable and other eInk readers. It's just an app - it doesn't replace or degrade any existing functionality. https://github.com/koreader/koreader
This is a relief to hear! The only downside with the RM1/2 for me is the lackluster epub/PDF functionality, but if it is possible to put koreader on it without interference with existing functionality, I might just sell my Kobo e-reader and use the RM2 for all my reading and writing needs!
I pre-ordered the RM2 a couple a months ago and just got an email notifying me about a slight COVID-related delay. I don't really mind, I am confident that the company can deliver without to much fuzz.
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#610I ordered a ReMarkable 2.0 on 7th of May 2020 and they emailed me:
"reMarkable 2 orders will be processed in batches. Your order is in batch 5, which is set to ship in Early September. You can follow the status of your batch at remarkable.com/delivery."
I opened the link again today (28th of August) and saw batch 5 is now postponed of 2 months to Early November :(