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Re: reMarkable 2

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It’s got 6.41 GB of onboard storage. I’ve been using mine heavily for note taking, reading articles, and some pdf markup and still use less than 2 GB. I guess if you needed to work with a large number of media rich pdf, it could become a problem. But there are solutions. Either officially supported - dropbox et al. integration, or you can just ssh into the device and set up a syncing scheme of your liking. So I reall…

It seems reasonable to ask on a $500+ device they could have slashed out $5 for a 32GB SD card.

Yea, the lack of expandability and locked down OS are totally anti consumer. Unfortunately, nowadays, that’s the norm and not a “scam.”

Re: reMarkable 2

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Not sure why this pops up now, nothing new afaik, but I'll take this as a chance to leave a quick review ;) I bought one during the kickstarter, mostly for note taking; but also as a ereader & perhaps drawing tool. - For note taking: I prefer a simple paper notebook, as my notes are more procedural. I don't really look back often. It's fine. Just not better then paper for note taking imo. - As a e-reader, it is absol…

My review is complete opposite of yours. I also prefer the notepad style of note taking but the remarkable means that my notes are available on my phone or computer whenever I need it. It is the first note taking tablet I've used that actually feels like I'm writing on paper. It's writing and drawing latency is fantastic and the matte surface with the pen replicates the feel better than anything else I've tried.

As an e-reader for general reading it may not shine but when I'm reading a PDF for research and need to underline/mark it up as a part of my study it's fantastic. I find the battery life to be excellent and I don't mind occasionally starting it back up.

It sounds like the remarkable doesn't really fit your way of working but it absolutely fits mine.

Re: reMarkable 2

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I had reviewed this before, but went for ONYX instead and never looked back. Having a general purpose machine has served me really well on countless occasions including various unforeseen use cases. I think reMarkable is branding away their lack of good software integration as "distraction free" but the reality is it is very easy to use ONYX without distraction.

Re: reMarkable 2

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post #336

would this be a good device to read tabletop RPG rulebook/scenario PDFs on? I'm in the market for such a device and this looks interesting

Yes, but I would recommend one of the Android based ereaders (e.g. Onyx Boox) so you can have apps. You might not use DnD Beyond, but it's still really good to have the option for other things.

appreciate the advice, and I'm sure Beyond is much better than it was back in the 4E days but I'm actually playing Call of Cthulhu now, so I might give this thing a shot

EDIT: nevermind, I now see that the "$279" price tag is not at all what you're actually going to be paying for this product. going to have to think about it a bit more.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Before buying remarkable, compare remarkable to a BOOX device. I did just that and my conclusion was that remarkable is an overpriced piece of tech at risk of being abandoned. For example, just the reading software on BOOX is leaps and bounds ahead of Remarkable. Similarly, on BOOX, you've got Android, which opens up a number of possibilities, while remarkable uses Linux (which sounds awesome until you realize that n…

The Remarkable is intended to primarily be a digital notebook and their advertising is very clear on that. It's not intended to run apps, it's not intended as e-book reader (though it has some limited capabilities), it doesn't have a browser, etc., nor do they intend to add such things. The parent is correct that people who are looking for those things should not be considering the Remarkable, but that is not a demer…

Essentially, what I'm claiming is that the only thing RM2 does better than a device like BOOX is that the writing feels better. It's not even better organized, the note app is not better in any way AFAICT, it just feels slightly more like paper.

In other words, the RM2 marketing can dress this up as whatever it wants. In the current market, the only person who's better served by RM2 than by its competitors is a person that loves the feeling of writing on a paper and is willing to trade it for a number of features.

You can have a BOOX full-on digital notebook as well.

Re: reMarkable 2

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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…

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Re: reMarkable 2

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I got one. I never use it. I have an expensive tablet and I rarely use it either (a phone works better for most web browsing because the tablet is too clunky to carry around, but I do use it to watch udemy videos when I'm using my laptop to take notes or work through examples). You see, it turns out, I love keyboards and track pads and mice! I imagined that I'd find it far easier to do diagrams and mind maps in the Rm2. And it's true that it's much easier to draw on a device designed for drawing. But it also turns out, I rarely have to do that, and this thing is shit for basically everything else.

If I remember that I've got one of these sitting in a drawer, it's nearly always dead. And if I remembered to charge it and I can actually draw something, the drawing is hard to use. Like, I can't just pick up the rm2, do a sketch and have it quickly embedded in a document. It's clunky as fuck, even if you root the thing, get ssh and all sorts of other sync stuff set up. The rm2 let's you make pointless sketches and hand drawn notes that can't be used easily outside the device. It's good for nothing else. And I'm willing to bet that that's not enough for most people. If you want pencil and paper, save yourself a shitload of money and just buy a pencil and some paper.

Edit: one thing I was kinda interested in was using it as a terminal - there's an app for this but it's too much hassle to set up for the novelty of a paper-like terminal (with no colours!)

Re: reMarkable 2

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Not sure why this pops up now, nothing new afaik, but I'll take this as a chance to leave a quick review ;) I bought one during the kickstarter, mostly for note taking; but also as a ereader & perhaps drawing tool. - For note taking: I prefer a simple paper notebook, as my notes are more procedural. I don't really look back often. It's fine. Just not better then paper for note taking imo. - As a e-reader, it is absol…

I've had a different experience with the reMarkable. I love this thing. It's a notepad of course, but I read a lot of books on it. Battery life has worked fine for me.

I use it daily.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Not sure why this pops up now, nothing new afaik, but I'll take this as a chance to leave a quick review ;) I bought one during the kickstarter, mostly for note taking; but also as a ereader & perhaps drawing tool. - For note taking: I prefer a simple paper notebook, as my notes are more procedural. I don't really look back often. It's fine. Just not better then paper for note taking imo. - As a e-reader, it is absol…

Why is it 'dog shit' as an e-reader? I mean, how badly can you fuck that up? I feel like that should be a pretty simple feature.
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