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Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by thaumasiotes »

svat wrote: post #190
thaumasiotes wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Marginalia does not generally appear over the text on which it comments, because that would make both the text and the marginalia difficult to read. (Just look at the word - it's text that appears in the margins.) So for practically all purposes, treating each note as an image which should be rendered to the side of a particular part of the dynamically-flowed text will solve the problem. This isn't that hard to do. I…

> But I'm taking "notes" to mean commentary. In the context of the reMarkable / this conversation, “notes” means whatever the user draws on the device with the stylus: underlining or circling or crossing-out words or drawing lines between them, drawing pictures or hand-writing in the margin or between lines or on the words, etc: whatever you would or could do with a physical book and a pen/pencil. (A primary design g…

It's a small subset of possible notes, but it's a very large subset of notes that are likely to come into existence.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by svat »

idorosen wrote: post #15

My only regret about this device is that it seems to lack full disk encryption on the device or any meaningful privacy (encryption) for documents stored in reMarkable Cloud...which is all of them if you want to use features like Screen Share (f.k.a. LiveView). ReMarkable should not be able to access contents of docs backed up from my device without my password or recovery key, but AFAICT, there is no such protection…

I have a rM2 that I've never connected to their reMarkable Cloud and I'm pretty happy with it; you can get the screen-sharing via other software. (Bunch of options here: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable#screen-shar... )

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by thaumasiotes »

aeturnum wrote: post #185
thaumasiotes wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Marginalia does not generally appear over the text on which it comments, because that would make both the text and the marginalia difficult to read. (Just look at the word - it's text that appears in the margins.) So for practically all purposes, treating each note as an image which should be rendered to the side of a particular part of the dynamically-flowed text will solve the problem. This isn't that hard to do. I…

> So for practically all purposes, treating each note as an image which should be rendered to the side of a particular part of the dynamically-flowed text will solve the problem. I don't think this is true. Even without underlines, which are common in notes, people place their notes based on a combination of the layout of the page and their personal preferences. I don't think it's possible to know, given one layout a…

> It is also worth saying that many historic uses of marginalia (for example, commentary on the Tanakh) are also associated with particular parts of the text and could not be laid out as you are describing without losing intended meaning.

I don't understand this. What part of the intended meaning would be lost? I have a printing plate of part of a Chinese Buddhist text with traditional commentary attached, and it works almost identically to this modern HTML from Harvard Law Review ( https://harvardlawreview.org/2021/06/commonwealth-v-mccarthy... ) - there's an area on the page for the text, another area for the commentary, and symbols identify which comments apply to which parts of the text.

But the Harvard Law Review piece is exactly what I just described, except that the notes do not appear near the text to which they apply.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by andrei_says_ »

salamandersauce wrote: post #178
kayodelycaon wrote: post #91

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The reMarkable is surprisingly good for its primary purpose. Everything else it does... is limited. They things they did do are done well given how they are implemented. The epub/pdf experience sucks because it doesn't have a real pdf reader. It just renders the epub to pdf and then throw the pdf into the note-taking app. Arguably, none of the functionality is half-assed. It works very well as a writing tablet. It ab…

I find my Boox Note Air pretty good. It runs Android basically every app I've thrown at it works although the fact that's eInk means stuff like Netflix, games etc. is obviously not a good experience. Some apps take a little fiddling to get working well on eInk like filtering out page turn animations or page refresh settings but once that's done it works well. The stock reader is very good at PDFs and passable at ePub…

Have you been able to use a drawing app different from the stock one? I own the nova3 and nothing else refreshes the screen properly.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by salamandersauce »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #194
salamandersauce wrote: post #178

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I find my Boox Note Air pretty good. It runs Android basically every app I've thrown at it works although the fact that's eInk means stuff like Netflix, games etc. is obviously not a good experience. Some apps take a little fiddling to get working well on eInk like filtering out page turn animations or page refresh settings but once that's done it works well. The stock reader is very good at PDFs and passable at ePub…

Have you been able to use a drawing app different from the stock one? I own the nova3 and nothing else refreshes the screen properly.

No that is one other caveat I forgot to mention. Apps need to use Boox's API to refresh the screen properly but as far as I am aware no 3rd party apps do. I think the API is available on their github page. I find the built in one is at least decent.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by revolvingocelot »

aidenn0 wrote: post #187
revolvingocelot wrote: post #17

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This. "Bricked" is a word that signifies that the speaker doesn't know how to make the device go. It's not exactly meaningless, but I certainly take it differently coming from a grognard as opposed to a Pakled.

Mixing up Wargaming and Star Trek terminology there?

If there ever were an audience that would get both references, it's surely this one.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by jlkuester7 »

mariusor wrote: post #112
zhdc1 wrote: post #105

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The Onyx Boox series is really good. The writing experience is almost as good as a Remarkable. The reading experience is excellent, and it's runs Android.

> and it's runs Android I apologize for the snark, but I refuse to see how this is a plus over "it runs vanilla linux".

Have you used Linux on a mobile device? It is getting better, but it is not an enviable experience yet for your average user.

Take something like Spotify, for example. There is a desktop Linux client and an Android app. Guess which one works better on a small touch screen with only a bit of power?

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by valzam »

Matthias1 wrote: post #88
Andrex wrote: post #4

Not trying to shill too hard, but it's rare I fall in love with a device the way I've fallen in love with my Remarkable 2. I can't say it was 100% worth the price (half was paid as a gift), but everything about it is refreshingly elegant and simple. Great to know recovering from a brick is possible too.

I had one for a couple weeks right about a year ago. I was very impressed by its ability to mimic paper. Unfortunately, it didn't do much more than mimic paper, so I sold it and bought some nice notebooks. However, I think that was before the software projects mentioned in this post. I never tried to SSH into it, so maybe it's possible to use it for things that you can't replace with paper.

I mean, this is like saying a Kindle isn't worth it because you can only read books on it. Sure, if you don't value the fact that it is digital (almost inifite capacity, delete without making a mess, backup to computer, send PDFs of the notes that you created, etc.) it's "not more than a notebook" but then you really missed the point of the device...

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by valzam »

jakeva wrote: post #69
pklausler wrote: post #56

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I'm glad that you enjoy yours. Mine has been sitting in my dead technology drawer since about two weeks after it arrived. The pen is too laggy, the contrast is too low for me to read PDFs comfortably, and the note-taking experience doesn't come close to what I get from a good pen and good paper. Nice try, but meh from me.

I spent the money only to find out I don't actually take notes in any form other than with a keyboard. I have used it to do some sketching though, but I don't really do that much either.

That was my experience after getting an ipad pro. I imagined all the great architecture drawings and design notes I will take on it but in reality typing in Notion is faster and more organised + tools like PlantUML are just plain better for creating diagrams because you don't have to worry about arranging your boxes and arrows in space.

Re: I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

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Post by aeturnum »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #193
aeturnum wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So for practically all purposes, treating each note as an image which should be rendered to the side of a particular part of the dynamically-flowed text will solve the problem. I don't think this is true. Even without underlines, which are common in notes, people place their notes based on a combination of the layout of the page and their personal preferences. I don't think it's possible to know, given one layout a…

> It is also worth saying that many historic uses of marginalia (for example, commentary on the Tanakh) are also associated with particular parts of the text and could not be laid out as you are describing without losing intended meaning. I don't understand this. What part of the intended meaning would be lost? I have a printing plate of part of a Chinese Buddhist text with traditional commentary attached, and it wor…

There are different traditions of how to annotate text and not all of them follow the conventions you're describing. Here's an example from a hebrew bible from the 16th century: http://www.sothebys.com/content/dam/stb/lots/N09/N09589/550N....
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