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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by mmikeff »

ABS wrote: post #71
crazygringo wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's funny, I would have thought that OCR on handwriting on a tablet would be great, because they can capture each individual stroke, rather than just the final pixelated product. In other words, because you're witnessing it being written, there's a lot more information. In fact I wouldn't even call it OCR because it's not "optical", but rather "stroke" -- SCR? Is that something that exists? Is that what the tablet t…

there is no OCR on device fullstop, which in itself would be fine if it happened async in the background. You can use the OCR feature only in the companion desktop app, explicitly selecting pages you want to run the process on. The result is better than it used to be but still not great and, importantly, it does NOT seem they make any difference if you later on do a search on the device

This is the biggest issue for me as well. Seems that the OCR has to be triggered manually, for each page of each notebook. Which of course I don't remember to do and now there are too many.

The search doesn't appear to search across notebooks either.

The experience that I would want (expect) is that OCR happens in the background, all the time, no need to trigger and that I can then search for a word/string and find all the notes on that topic.

I've fallen back to tags and dates in filenames to have any chance of tracking down old meeting notes.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by WillAdams »

vimsee wrote: post #97

I want to challenge the idea that drawing/writing on what feels like paper is subpar compared to a surface that have the pencil glide a bit more. I always thought writing on paper is something we have to deal with because paper is.. well, the physical medium we always used because it is cheap to manufacture.

This can be adjusted for based on different nibs (and/or screen protector) --- a number of different ones are available and they are easily changed.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by fumar »

It has 229 pixels per inch based on the E in Gallery 3 display. On E ink’s site, the Gallery 3 product specs says support is up to 300 ppi. Remarkable should’ve gone with the higher resolution.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by LegitShady »

ducktective wrote: post #5

Is this suitable for reading technical pdf textbooks (math, programming, etc)? Last I checked the screen size was smaller than A4 and ReMarkable had a focus on writing and taking notes rather than displaying books... So any suggestions here?

It honestly depends on you. I used a Google Nexus 7 as a textbook and paper display during university back in the day and while in some cases you needed to zoom in overall it was fine. I don't have any experience with this remarkable but purely from a screen size perspective, if your eyes are healthy and you're willing it should be fine.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by ericd »

mchicken wrote: post #121
paxys wrote: post #33

Looks neat, but not being able to do something as simple as backup and sync without a monthly subscription makes this whole ecosystem a no go for me. Especially for a device that already costs $600-800.

Yeah, the subscription and the fact that it can’t handle simple tasks pushed me away from buying the reMarkable 2. I opted for a more convenient tablet instead. Without those features, it’s just a fancy toy that can easily be replaced by a sheet of paper. Plus, it’s heavier and needs more care. Why spend almost a grand on a device when paper does the same job for free?

It’s amazing for reading technical papers, and I can store reams of them on there. Useful to be able to mark them up as I go. Also textbooks. So for me, it ends up being much lighter than what it replaces.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by loughnane »

breck wrote: post #150
loughnane wrote: post #80

I've been a remarkable user for several years and have spent hundreds of hours I'm sure in front of the RM1 and RM2. I love the increased storage (8GB goes fast with a bunch of scanned PDFs) and the addition of color (so long as it's as readable in sunlight). However I'm stuck on the old 2.x fw versions because I don't like the infinite page thing they added, so I won't be upgrading. Also it'd be cool if they offered…

I haven't looked at the software stack in a while. Has RM gone more open source yet? I didn't like how they were pivoting to toward the SaaS subscription thing. I'd much rather pay a little more up front for a fully open device then cheaper upfront but with an annoying subscription plus closed source.

I think they’re the same as ever…not as good as I’d like but miles ahead of anyone else.

It’ll be neat to see if this device is more or less locked down. I hope less.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by WillAdams »

surfingdino wrote: post #120

I did try to like e-ink tablets, but I'm afraid they just can't match an iPad or a decent Android tablet.

Horses for courses.

Use an e-ink tablet if you want:

- long battery life

- paper-like writing experience

- high resolution (for b/w)

- an alternative to paper for books and notes

That said, there are devices which are essentially Android tablets w/ e-ink screens, which aside from refresh rates work much as one would expect.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by pjerem »

diggan wrote: post #95
bluGill wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean like the pine note? https://pine64.org/devices/pinenote/ The hardware is easy for China, but there is a lot of software that doesn't exist yet, or it exists but is too slow to be usable. If you want to work on that software, then the pinenote is a great deal, order one and get busing writing/optimizing code. If you want a tablet that works the ReMarkable has been around for years.

To be honest (and as a reMarkable 2 owner), the software side of reMarkable isn't a "out of this world" experience, it's basically "just enough" to do it's job but not more than that.

For me, it’s not even enough. My remarkable is sleeping in a drawer.

I totally understand the "it’s just a notebook and nothing else" limitation. Like : ok, you can’t do anything else than using it as a notebook. Why not. It’s how it’s marketed and I bought it for that. My issues comes from the fact that it’s actually a really dumb notebook where it could have been a "better" notebook.

I mean, it’s 2024 and they still don’t allow you to create links between pages.

And the global ergonomics are pretty barebones too. Navigation is slow. Ok, it’s e-ink, e-ink is slow at rendering full pages. So maybe at least don’t make your UX be a succession of screens ? It’s like designers forgot that you can create interfaces that don’t require to redraw the entire screen between each action.

This thing is both a really beautiful and enjoyable object (the writing feeling is truly incredible) and a daily frustration of intentional limitations and laziness.

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