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Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by bioemerl »

blindseer wrote: post #225
davidroetzel wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

These features were free to begin with! Then they got greedy (imo a marketing / sales background product manager thought they should price more aggressively) and started charging for basic features! Honestly the device was completely unusable at that point. And now they are reverting ONLY because Kindle Scribe is going to be out soon, and they need to look like they are a similar product. I can guarantee that unless…

I think they just started to run out of money because nobody was buying and their competition annihilates them in terms of features.

Do you know one of the things people really want from the tablet?

The ability to draw shapes. They don't add it on the basis of idealism "it must be like paper".

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

The ReMarkable 2 tablet has been out of awhile and is a well known device, this post just links to the main homepage as far as I can see, what am I missing?

Something new announced?

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by Operyl »

tuffacton wrote: post #290

I bought one hoping to try it with the expectation I could return it using their 100-day guarantee. Ultimately decided the experience was too painful for my usual workflows in terms of reading and annotating my PDFs for grad school and work. Their return process was the most PAINFUL return experience I've ever had to go through. You have to specify exactly what you're returning from their online menus and they use a…

I had the same calculus, I bought it expecting to see if it would improve workflows, determined it didn't, and did the return. Didn't have this problem, remember the process being particularly easy honestly. Perhaps they revamped it since you or I did it? I returned mine in September of this year (before they announced the Connect changes, go figure).

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by fra »

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…

Repeat after me: "Traditional hardware purchases do not support software investments", as Zach Supalla so decisively put it (https://www.atomsandbits.io/p/hardware-software-business-mod...).

You can not ask for cloud-enabled conveniences, as well as bug fixes, security updates, and product improvements for years to come for a one time fee.

Increasingly, devices are a delivery mechanism for software, and one way or another you have to pay for the software.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by funksta »

akamaka wrote: post #223
nathell wrote: post #47

I’ve bought myself a reMarkable 2 with the approach that „I’m just getting an expensive toy” (ie not an everyday work tool, just a nice gizmo). And it’s been great, if a bit pricey. (On the flip side, I have a free subscription.) Some things I’ve used it for, so far: - To write handwritten.blog. - As a notebook. Nothing much to mention here. Being able to pick a page template (plain/dotted/lined/squared) is nice. - R…

Is it easy to use for reading daily news, or would that require some hacking to get my news content to transfer to it automatically?

There's nothing in the main ecosystem for getting news content on the device (besides manually sending individual articles to the rM via the chrome extension).

I'm working on a project that pulls from RSS/Twitter/Reddit, formats all your subscriptions into a single pdf, and syncs to Google Drive (which the rM can sync with). It's working great for me so far but is the closest to "automatic" I think you can achieve with the device right now.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by _hudj »

This device is great....once it's hacked.

If you just take the device on its own functions it is less powerful than it's competitors the supernote and the onyx tablets. It's had pretty bad customer relations due to paywalling a bunch of their features and then walking that back but the build quality is great.

One thing that they did right by pure accident though is give users a root shell into a mostly standard Linux and the community has built tooling that turns this into the most functional of the tablets...but keep in mind this is at the lament of the remarkable team who would rather you use the device as intended.

Supernote is the clear winner among the eink tablets if you use them as intended but many attempts to beg the supernote team to put shell access in have resulted in responses that are at best cautious and at worse condisending.

Until supernote releases the a5x2 (and even then it remains to be seen) this is the best eink tablet

...once hacked that is

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by ibdf »

It would have been remarkable if this was out while I was in school.... carrying this around instead of a laptop and notebooks would have been much easier. I would imagine they would have ads targeting students... yes you can also accomplish the same with a tablet, but the limitations of this device seem be a pro and not a con... less distractions.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by integricho »

what a bs, a subscription, seriously!? for a device to take notes!? it should just be sold as-is, a device, that you can use if you own it, what utter BS is this subscription model!?

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by m4lvin »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #199
davidroetzel wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I just type "pdf2remarkable.sh whatever.pdf" in my terminal and it's done. Using a variant of this script:

https://github.com/adaerr/reMarkableScripts/blob/master/pdf2...

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by caddemon »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #269
blindseer wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These features were free to begin with! Then they got greedy (imo a marketing / sales background product manager thought they should price more aggressively) and started charging for basic features! Honestly the device was completely unusable at that point. And now they are reverting ONLY because Kindle Scribe is going to be out soon, and they need to look like they are a similar product. I can guarantee that unless…

It's not just fiscal greed, either. Their services are all hosted in Hong Kong, which means that they're subject to China's domestic spying apparatus and rules on encryption. You'd have to be a moron to trust a device which uses Chinese-territory-hosted servers to store and OCR your documents. The remarkable2 is a more expensive (if you count subscription fees for 2-3 years), far less capable, far less private device…

The use case for the ReMarkable is not the same as the use case for an iPad. There are other e-ink writing tablets out there besides ReMarkable obviously, but iPad did not at all satisfy what I was looking for in a note taking/paper reading tablet. It was like a glorified second phone with a shit writing interface. Very glad I switched to e-ink.
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