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Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by bobmichael »

trentnix wrote: post #183

I was considering one of these last year but one of the reviews I watched suggested the experience wasn’t as good if you are a lefty. The UI, according to them, was tuned for a right-handed writer’s experience and they frequently triggered buttons and menus accidentally. I would love to hear from any left-handed RM2 owners about their experiences and whether they experienced similar issues.

I'm a lefty with a Remarkable 2 that I've use almost daily for a year and a half, and I haven't had trouble with accidental button presses as long as I close the context menu when I'm writing. The toggle for the context menu is a dot on the top right corner of the page, so not easy to accidentally press as a lefty. I guess if you're using it for complex drawings where you need the context menu open to constantly erase, cut, and change thickness then it might be annoying, but for my use cases of journaling, note-taking, and the occasional diagram, I'm extremely satisfied.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by donohoe »

It lost me at the subscription level. I’m already moving my company off 1Password because of the subscription nature of it.

I’m so very tired of this model.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by goosedragons »

Aeolun wrote: post #90
grepLeigh wrote: post #36

I loved my Remarkable 1/2, used both of them daily. For awhile, Remarkable felt like the best in class e-ink tablet. The writing experience is lovely. I ended up giving them away after 1-2 years of use though. Currently prefer Onyx Box Nova Air C for the backlight, color e-ink, and split screen capabilities. Since Onyx runs an Android variant, I can use Libby/Overdrive to check out audio/ebooks from my local library.…

> Onyx Box Nova Air C Call me old fashioned, but I just cannot take a product with a name like this seriously. Is it a knockoff sold by OODREEFT on Amazon? Does it come pre-installed with Chinese spyware? That’s the signal a name like that gives me. Same for the fact that it runs an android variant. Even if the remarkable software is sometimes suboptimal at least they took the time to build their own.

No it's not a knockoff (although it should be Boox not Box). And Oynx built their own software too? Just on top of Android instead of Linux. It's pretty customized and their apps are well designed to work on eInk screens. Android just adds a boat load of functionality because you get access to a ton of apps that work well on a touch screen.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by ilikerashers »

Lots of hate but I really like mine:

  - Drag and drop PDFs from the browser to upload
  - Read a ton of books I wouldn't normally read (yes can do this on a kindle but it has a much bigger display)
  - Journaling with my own templates
  - Kids can scribble and play hangman etc on planes
  - Gets rid of the stacks of notebooks in my house
  - Has that wow factor when people/clients see it
  - Natural writing feel
  - Pretty robust (knocks around in my backpack)
Really nice tech purchase. I got it before the subscription but paid more for it as a result.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by olav »

I fell in love with it when I first saw it, but had to return it after discovering that it was barely usable for my eyesight without backlight.

On the other hand, I love my Kindle, not for the closed ecosystem, but for the rather slick (compared with eg. the German Tolino) UX.

I am afraid that the new Kindle with pen will be a killer for the ReMarkable 2, as much as I would have preferred a small company making the race.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by keyle »

I bought one a few months ago and I definitely use it most days.

Except I don't use it for note taking, I use it to think about what I'm doing tool: doodling essentially.

Boxes, arrows, circles, words... Then the code virtually writes itself. It's like a code extractor or glasses for my mind.

I'd say that honestly, a pen a paper would do the same. I just got into the marketing and bought one. It's nice to have erasing that leaves no traces, and undo/redo.

As for the cons, I'd say the contrast isn't as good as I'd like it to be in low light. I don't work in a very bright environment, and the ceiling splashing reflection of light makes it sometimes hard to read PDFs/ePubs.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by marcus_holmes »

wakeupcall wrote: post #181
marcus_holmes wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mine has "remarkable is sleeping" shown when it's sleeping, and I need to unlock it to get it to show anything.

I was referring to the "press button to use your remarkable" that you can see inbetween before it goes to sleep.

fair enough :)

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by afandian »

goosedragons wrote: post #170
afandian wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like it or not, they're pitching it as an appliance to replace a notepad. I think the marketing is quite clever, and I applaud their focus. But it does mean that they deliberately exclude bells and whistles that you would expect from a general-purpose software device. Though IMHO with every added feature, they are scope-creeping away from the spartan value prop. FWIW the USB exposes it over a virtual network which le…

Is it? I think this will doom the device and the company. They exclude a lot while not being cheaper than competitors and they shove basic functionality into a subscription. And yet this notebook replacement doesn't even come with the pen in the box either. Why would anyone spend $300+$80 for a Remarkable 2 when a Kobo Elipsa or Kindle Scribe is less and they are better at book reading, have features like a screen li…

These promotional videos show their deliberate positioning as an anti-"mobile device".

(warning- jump scare!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcdxW2XF0v8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUZ9QEbJ5sc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEw6N9Xd6uE

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by jimktrains2 »

davidroetzel wrote: post #168
eps wrote: post #162

Nice. Lost me at subscription. (Edit, to clarify - not because of what it offers, but because the very existence of a subscription tends to create wrong incentives for the company so to try and push people onto them. Maybe not now, but this will happen. Guaranteed.) Also, I don't see a properly supported way to actually get docs to/from the device without a cloud service, theirs or someone else's. For example, [1] sa…

FWIW, there is a tiny webapp on the device that you access when you follow the instructions above. You do not need to install anything and it worked perfectly fine for me so far. Also, you can ssh into the device and even get root access. I have not tried it yet but I guess scp would work as well. Last but not least: They recently changed their subscription service in a big way, opening up a lot of features that were…

scp doesn't work as their default reader renames the file and keeps a database. (That's probably why it doesn't present a usb disk.) Getting files to my remarkable (1) is honestly my only complaint with it.

You can run koreader or others, and then scp would be usable.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by jimktrains2 »

dotancohen wrote: post #173
makach wrote: post #34

I am one of the original kickstarter backers and got mine at a very favorable price compared to what they are selling it for now. As a original kickstarter backer they also provided me with a free tier for their subscription service so I am not paying anything extra to have full functionality, this is very important to me because I am not very excited of subscription based software features - remarkable please take n…

> The software that is installed on your PC/Mac has very basic functionality. Is there Linux software? What do you need the software for anyway?

It works with wine. It syncs books and notes to/from the cloud account to your local device.
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