Moto -> I see a subscription, I rush to the exit door (c)
reMarkable 2
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#212Nice. 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…
I'd generally agree with you on subscriptions but not sure in this case. I think the subscription actually creates an incentive for them to keep the machine updated and working well and its set at a low level. I've seen too much hardware where once they make the profit on the sale they lose interest.
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#213A lot of people understandably have gripes about the subscription. But it is optional, right?
The old one you could (after some trickery I suppose) ssh tp the device and sync via rsync etc. For me that fits way better into my workflow even if their cloud solution was perfect and free for life.
I will not consider an eink device of this type that I cannot ssh into.
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#214I personally don't think writing text is useful now that we have keyboards. It's probably useful for math equations, diagrams/sketches (excalidraw), but I'm tempted to practice typing math equations (e.g. mathjax) and drawing with excalidraw. But reMarkable is black and white, so it doesn't suit this either. For a few years I used OneNote + Surface Pro to take handwritten notes, equations and drawings. It was a great…
I find handwriting a lot better than keyboards. The physical act of writing helps me remember stuff better than typing it, so it's especially useful during notetaking sessions. I also like reading pdfs on my Quaderno (another eink reader, A4 size so bigger than a remarkable), and it also allows me to easily annotate them as well. It's much better than an ereader for pdf due to size, and much less harsh on the eyes than, say, an iPad. And everything can be transferred via usb with their app.
But, I just disagree with the first premise and that's why I find mine useful, though still not as useful as actual paper which is easier to flip through, etc.
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#215I really wanted to like the Remarkable. I saw people using them at a couple of conferences the idea seems so great.
So I tried it. Twice, for a couple weeks each. Had a couple of other people borrow in between and try it.
We all reached the same conclusion:
Solid implementation of a great idea!
... but ...
An additional object to carry? Nope. Get an iPad or a Surface Pro, if you need to both write/sketch and do other computing work. Carrying both a digital writing tablet and a separate general purpose device is very unappealing.
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#216I honestly cannot see the value in ReMarkable after the Kindle Scribe announcement. The kindle has a newer faster, 300dpi display vs 226dpi on the ReMarkable. I am waiting on reviews before ordering one for myself, but I can already see that Kindle Scribe is going to be disruptive for this segment.
I bought a Remarkable 2 - the UI design wasn’t there for me yet and I only persisted with it for a few days, but I am a big believer in the product category and would certainly give the next one a try. However, I think it will be forever niche. Not many people have any interest in writing by hand, and of those that do, only an few are so keen on digital organisation that they would buy one of these. It seems like a p…
> Anyone got any thoughts on this? Does Amazon have some big strategy that I’m missing here? How do they plan to persuade large numbers of people to buy into digital handwriting?
Have you use office 365 or onenote? An iPad with the Apple pen recently? Any digital notes are organized by default, the latency and poor refresh rate makes eink impossible for replacing notebooks to me, but an LCD works great. Handwriting is already mainstream, as is using it on computer.
If you’re asking about Amazon most buyers of kindle fall between either upgrading every cycle and never using it, never upgrading their kindle keyboard, or more commonly never used it more than 3hr in total. Kindle sales are going to be good either way since type 1 buyers love tech for tech.
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#217I 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.
How about that LG OLED C2 Evo 55" TV? Do you prefer that over LG OLED C1 or maybe LG NanoCell 80 Series or Nanocell 90 Series?
Or maybe those Apple iPhone XS Max phones? Or iPhone 14 Plus or iPhone 13 Pro Max? Are these knock-offs sold by a reseller on Amazon?
What I am saying is that there are (universally accepted as) good products that have silly names. Naming is done by marketing departments trying to be clever, products are designed by design/engineering departments trying to be clever.
Call me old fashioned, but I know which I care about more.
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#218I honestly cannot see the value in ReMarkable after the Kindle Scribe announcement. The kindle has a newer faster, 300dpi display vs 226dpi on the ReMarkable. I am waiting on reviews before ordering one for myself, but I can already see that Kindle Scribe is going to be disruptive for this segment.
I think ReMarkable's resolution is perfectly fine, and a higher DPI wouldn't make a significant difference.
However, it needs a better contrast. I can't tell if Scribe beats it on that, because in Scribe product videos their screen seems similarly dull, but other product shots have contrast so high it looks photoshopped.
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#219There's no mention anywhere on that page of whether your drawings on the device are vector or not. Anyone know?
It exports as a high-res PNG. During editing it does behave like vectors a bit (e.g. if you select part of an object, it extends selection to the whole object instead of cutting it).
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
I keep mine in airplane mode unless/until I want to transfer stuff or update it. I don't even use the PIN at all. It's a replacement for my notebook - it's at least as secure as a physical notebook, and several times lighter (I'd need about 5 notebooks for everything I've got on it).
I keep it in front of my keyboard in landscape mode, like a large trackpad. I've scribbled over 2000 pages since I bought it. Meeting notes, planning, algorithm design, mind maps... I usually never read again what I doodle on it, only sometimes it helps me refresh some data. So it's like unlimited paper.
I kept a paper notebook for years, using a page a day to scribble to-do's on it and replacing it each year. I have an archive box with years of notebooks in it that I should probably get rid of.
I now have a year's worth on notes in the remarkable, with no need to archive it. I look forward to being able to astound people with my instant recall of meeting notes from years ago ;)
I have actually used mine for sketching, too. It works - and the ability to zoom in for details is cool :)