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ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
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Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
> ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, I have been contemplating buying a ReMarkable 2 as I prefer to handwrite everything/annotate/. The price tag is a bit hefty given the cost of an iPad and pencil and the zillion other things it does. I'm curious if you are indeed going to buy one?
I bought one, I love it so far. I wouldn’t compare it to an iPad. This is much more tuned to helping you think - no notifications whatsoever, no web browser to offer opportunities to do something else. Or, put another way, the fact that it doesn’t do a zillion things is a good thing if your goal is to be able to think deeply. Kind of like how some writers use ancient equipment that doesn’t connect to the internet to…
Thanks. I’m headed to medical school soon. Fingers crossed. My goal is zero distractions and a process for deep thought.
Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#93I've been looking for an e-ink tablet that I can bend to my will, but the Kindle hacking scene seems to have peaked around 2012 and it's a desolate wasteland of dead links now. That's a shame, because the hardware is really cheap. ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, but that would be justified if these "hacks" were officially supported or at least acknowledged enough that some future firmware update wouldn…
> ReMarkable is sort of astonishingly expensive, I have been contemplating buying a ReMarkable 2 as I prefer to handwrite everything/annotate/. The price tag is a bit hefty given the cost of an iPad and pencil and the zillion other things it does. I'm curious if you are indeed going to buy one?
I've had mine for 4-6 weeks now. I'm not returning it, but I can't particularly recommend it - both the annotation and eReading experiences are significantly inferior to what you'd get with Onenote, Notability, or Drawboard on iPad/Surface.
The reMarkable hardware is nice, but its stock software is frankly disappointing. The hackability is a "plus", but I don't want to have to resort to unsupported firmware tweaks to fix a $500 device.
Specific feedback:
* Zooming is incredibly coarse. There is no pinch zoom, only a button in the UI that jumps in intervals of 100% or more. On many of my documents it goes from slightly too small to WAY too big with no level in between
* Speaking of zooming, the pen controls overlay the document, often blocking parts of the text. There is no way to scale the document to fit in the remaining space. There's not even a way to have the button backgrounds be transparent so you could still read most of the text.
* It doesn't support in-document hyperlinks in PDF or ePub, so your table of contents and index are worthless.
* If you somehow know what page you want to jump to, that's buried two menus deep and frustrating to get to
* Search is very slow in large (100+ page) documents, and results trickle in gradually so you can never be quite sure when you're looking at the whole list. Given that one of my desired uses for the device is to carry around some PDF textbook-style references, this hurts.
* You can't change the default writing utensil, so if you don't like the grainy mid-width pencil you have to change it every single time you open a new document
* There's no pressure sensitivity in the pen
* The eraser works like a pencil eraser, not a digital one. There is no way to erase a stroke, so you'll inevitably erase more than you want to and have to redraw some of it
Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#94Does anyone know if syncing with cloud can be disabled?
Yes, it can be disabled. At least on my rM1 I've managed to disable all cloud syncing. For me it's very strange idea to put any personal notes in some cloud.
The other thing to disable is sending some stats info to their server enabled by default to my surprise. It can be disabled with terminal through ssh and I did. Can't find though the article with detailed instructions.
Re: ReMarkable tablet open source tools and hacks
#95Does anyone know if syncing with cloud can be disabled?
You have to enable it explicitly. There are also several third party tools for offline syncing, and there is always the option to SSH into the device and do whatever you want.
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#96I'm going to get my R2 soon. Does anyone know if it can open (read+write) basic Excel documents? I have a "Weekly Todo" XLS (it's just blank grids) that I always print for writing down notes in the grids, and by end of week, put those back to computer. Would be great if I can skip the print-transcribe loop.
Nope. It's best to think of the rM just as a slightly digital notebook instead of as a computer. It handles PDFs, EPUBs, and its own notebook format wonderfully, but that's it.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW, the battery life is surprisingly short. I guess it's the Wacom digitiser broadcasting RF all the time.
> I guess it's the Wacom digitiser broadcasting RF all the time. Great, it has expensive royalties and it betrays the user.
> Great, it has expensive royalties and it betrays the user.
Your cell phone also sends out photons that can be spied on. Worse yet they're multicast so multiple parties can receive them at the same time.
Seriously though, this is an absurd concern, and I say that as someone who is very privacy minded if not actually paranoid.
I still don't trust that cell phones aren't sending back keywords picked up on the microphone, but I guarantee you that right now no one is listening to your digitizer's rf output, much less that the device itself is somehow "betraying the user" by exfiltrating anything over it.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I guess it's the Wacom digitiser broadcasting RF all the time. Great, it has expensive royalties and it betrays the user.
Short range analog RF signal to detect where the pen is, not something containing digital information. Your toothbrush motor and charger probably has comparable level of RF radiation come out.
They do, but it should be noted that there have been reports of toothbrushes exfiltrating accelerometer data so toothbrushes are no longer a good example of an innocuous device.
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#99Is there any move to get a Kindle app on this? I suspect the market is not big enough for Amazon to care but maybe they'd be open to some partnership where someone else does the work? I mean they ship readers on Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, and Web so it's not like they care that you buy a Kindle.
There's KOReader on the RM1 (with some progress happening on the RM2) but no official kindle client...
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
The handwriting recognition seems OK for print, but not great when I write in cursive. The pen-tablet interface is very responsive --- I'd really like to know how they managed to get the refresh so quick with an e-ink display, actually. Apart from the texture, it's just as quick as writing on paper: I can't detect any latency.
Do you have the RM1 or the new RM2? apparently the input lag on the RM2 is very low.
It's quite low on both, the RM2 is better though.
Even on the RM1 I can't notice any myself.