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The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by neilv »

krastanov wrote: post #264
flatiron wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can fix the ip changing on reboot by pegging the MAC to an IP in your router. if you are also running something like pi-hole you can give it a local dns entry too, which makes it even easier to remember.

On my OS at least (ubuntu and probably many others) it can resolve by hostname (after all that is the whole point of having hostnames). So I just do `ssh remarkable` without even having an `.ssh` entry for it.

That can work, if your LAN router's DHCP and DNS are set up to respect the hostname suggested by the client, to update it in the DNS for the LAN domain, and tell DHCP clients to use the router for DNS.

For LAN devices you want to access as a server, I think it's usually easiest and most reliable to just designate a permanent IPv4 address for them with your router's DHCP server, like what OP suggested.

Your SSH client will probably prefer static IP addresses, too, for the record-keeping it probably does about which servers it knows and at what addresses.

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Post by tomComb »

yitchelle wrote: post #215
bjornjajayaja wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it phones home to China count me out. I’ll go for the reMarkable tyvm I can just see me working on a brilliant invention (one can dream , right?) and putting my notes into the note boox, only to realize it gets patented before me by a Chinese company.

I know that this is obvious, but worth noting. This anxiety is not just China as a destination, but it just as relevant if it phones home to any company in any _country_.

I don't agree. Remarkable is based in Norway and I have more confidence in a Norwegian companies handling of my data.

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Post by colordrops »

There is some 3rd party software for remarkable, but mostly to enhance the standard operation of the tablet, i.e. reading, drawing and writing. I really wish a better open source launcher and more apps were written. I would prefer to check a checkbox and sync my todos off the tablet rather than write them out then erase or cross them out them when done. Or use an app for habit tracking, etc. There's a big underserved market here. I am going to give a go at building something if I can find the time.

Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by gonehome »

codethief wrote: post #9

> Later this month I'll take a look at Supernote which already has a enthusiastic community and promises to have a rich API for 3rd parties to explore and expand. I tried the Remarkable 2 for a month but ended up returning it and ordering the Supernote A5X instead – I couldn't be happier! Its main advantages (IMO): - The Supernote acts as a regular USB mass storage device, so syncing files (w/o resorting to the cloud…

Interesting - thanks for writing up the differences.

For me, lack of android is more of a feature for this kind of device.

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Post by pomatic »

gpm wrote: post #130
markroseman wrote: post #125

Has anything improved recently for RM2 around secure sync to a LAN? Would like to experiment with one for my psychiatrist wife to replace her paper chart notes, but anything hitting an external cloud service is out of the question for patient information. Sync via cable would be too obtrusive. And I gather handwriting recognition etc. is done via cloud.

There's no official solution, but, It's just linux. It has ssh installed (it tells you the password in the "copyright and licenses" menu, and you can private keys on the device like normal). It connects to wifi. You can write a script that runs on the device and periodically syncs notes somewhere (I have this setup with restic for backups). Handwriting recognition is done by cloud, and, I mean, unless you want to set…

DIY handwriting recognition is actually really easy using Microsofts SaaS offerings. The results are astonishingly good too - it makes mincemeat of my awful handwriting.

Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by pomatic »

I have an RM1 and it's pretty good, it's a one trick pony and does that trick (paper notebook replacement) well. The only issue I have is discovery/searching of old notes. If ReMarkable would add wiki or roam style linking, it could readily become a second brain. I really think they are missing a trick there...

Re: The rise of E Ink Tablets and Note Takers: reMarkable 2 vs Onyx Boox Note Air

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Post by gpm »

pomatic wrote: post #315
gpm wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no official solution, but, It's just linux. It has ssh installed (it tells you the password in the "copyright and licenses" menu, and you can private keys on the device like normal). It connects to wifi. You can write a script that runs on the device and periodically syncs notes somewhere (I have this setup with restic for backups). Handwriting recognition is done by cloud, and, I mean, unless you want to set…

DIY handwriting recognition is actually really easy using Microsofts SaaS offerings. The results are astonishingly good too - it makes mincemeat of my awful handwriting.

That's really interesting actually, thanks for letting me know!

Not sure trading out remarkables cloud for microsoft's cloud is exactly what OP wants though ;)

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Post by xsmasher »

CosmicShadow wrote: post #260

I'm always super intrigued by the reMarkable 2, but I think it's because it paints an image of the type of person I think it'd be cool to be, someone who can just write down notes and draw stuff with a really cool, slim device. Someone who carries around moleskines and uses them, instead of just buying so many of them in different shapes and leaving them in a drawer packed to the brim with notebooks. The problem keep…

Voice commands like "Hey Siri, add X to my [grocery/hardware/project] list" and "Hey Siri, remind me [tomorrow at 10] to do X" have made me more effective at pretty much everything.

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Post by georgeecollins »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #303
nemosaltat wrote: post #292

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was in the Navy I carried a little memoranda pad in my left breast pocket. I’d take notes each day, at the beginning of each new day, I’d carry any necessary information from the previous day to the next page and then fold the previous page along the diagonal, alternating the folds right and left each day. The effects of pulling out a notepad and jotting notes are markedly different than pulling out a phone or…

I've noticed that early on; 15 years ago, I was keeping notes on a "feature phone with sliding keyboard". I was pulled by my manager for being disrespectful after the meeting; I showed him the notes and demonstrated that I was by far the most attention / had the best retention / was most involved in the meeting, but still... the message was - it looks unprofessional, stop it. Thing is: * My handwriting sucks (I liter…

That's so funny- that makes me think: 2007 (or so) a manager asked me not to use a Windows Pen Tablet in a meeting because it wasn't respectful.

2011 Every senior manager brings an iPad to meetings and seem to get distracted.

2015 (Tech co) Everybody brings an MacBook Air or a MacBook pro to every meeting

2018 (Entertainment Co) Any electronic device is considered disrespectful in a meeting, especially phones.

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Post by noobly »

Opportunities to ask about these devices don't come up very often, so please help me decide what I want here:

I want something that allows me to do math problems while laying down horizontally, mostly before bed. With a book and paper, it's a mess trying to do this, and I require e-ink. So I need good support for reading PDFs _and_ writing on screen, which is a niche apparently. I need split screen functionality or something like it, so I can have half my screen be scratch paper, and in the other half I can flip through the text (and I need a reasonably sized screen to accommodate all this). If I cannot do this, the device is not usable enough to purchase imo. I have no desire to take notes, draw or convert my writing to text. It would be a big plus if it could also read epubs as then I wouldn't need my current ereader.

I'm leaning toward the Remarkable 2, mostly due to it shaping up to be 'hacker friendly' (so I can lean on the community to write some features) and the writing supposedly feeling real, but I don't like how expensive the little pencil nubs are and having to replace them is kind of a drag. I tend to binge research my options a couple times per year but haven't pulled the trigger yet. I get frustrated because I feel like I want something so basic that it should already exist - just a book and scratch paper in one device, with a screen that doesn't keep me awake at night or distract me with a web browser. Anyway, last I checked the Remarkable 2 didn't quite have a splitscreen feature or anything close enough, so I opted to wait.

Would appreciate any input, I'm probably going to break down and buy one this month.

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