Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet • Hacker News Board

Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by funksta » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:08 PM UTC

linsomniac wrote: post #196

youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

Does the Remarkable 2 have "templates" for pages? A couple years ago I went from a largely "paperless" life to using a daily planner, largely for my daily work and personal TODO lists, and have found the process very valuable. I toyed around with making a custom template for my daily notes/lists, and using the RocketBook ecosystem (maybe with just my own printed templates and using their app for scanning), but in the…

Out of curiousity, which planner do you use and which feature(s)/layouts are the most useful for you?

I've started building custom pdf planners for these eInk devices (I'm an rM2 owner myself) and am always looking for insight on how people use them. Have a little website setup for this at https://hyperpaper.me

Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by dang » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

yesbut wrote: post #86

As an American, I'd rather have a foreign actor spying on me than my own government. The foreign actor has no jurisdiction over me.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30513500.

Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by shagie » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:30 PM UTC

asiachick wrote: post #198

youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

No Kindle app = Not useful to me. Do either of these support kindle?

There is no kindle app directly. You can go through a conversion process to convert from .kfx to .epub and then read those on (at least) the remarkable.

https://www.isummersoft.com/transfer-kindle-to-remarkable-ta...

Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by yumraj » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

> No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

Also, no spyware..

Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

linsomniac wrote: post #196

youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

Does the Remarkable 2 have "templates" for pages? A couple years ago I went from a largely "paperless" life to using a daily planner, largely for my daily work and personal TODO lists, and have found the process very valuable. I toyed around with making a custom template for my daily notes/lists, and using the RocketBook ecosystem (maybe with just my own printed templates and using their app for scanning), but in the…

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Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by teucris » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:42 PM UTC

ABCLAW wrote: post #188

emsy wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody said the Remarkable shouldn't exist. The question was whether the lack of a feature that can be disabled is a feature, which it isn't. You know what else doesn't send notifications and doesn't even need a battery? Paper.

>The question was whether the lack of a feature that can be disabled is a feature, which it isn't. It is, though, and examples have been provided of VERY successful platforms built upon this negative space. Consider the lack of a feature as a feature itself; it lowers the amount of cognitive brainpower required to use the system, and that is VERY valuable.

I’m of two minds on this one. Starting without notifications as an option in my devices would help me tremendously in my day to day life. But that’s just me. There are so many different brains out there. How does a company make a product that sells to a sufficiently wide market to make it worthwhile? The only option I see is… options. User-specific customization.

Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by mNovak » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:43 PM UTC

linsomniac wrote: post #196

youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

Does the Remarkable 2 have "templates" for pages? A couple years ago I went from a largely "paperless" life to using a daily planner, largely for my daily work and personal TODO lists, and have found the process very valuable. I toyed around with making a custom template for my daily notes/lists, and using the RocketBook ecosystem (maybe with just my own printed templates and using their app for scanning), but in the…

Yeah it does, pretty certain you upload custom ones too though I've never tried it

Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by funksta » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:54 PM UTC

mNovak wrote: post #207

linsomniac wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the Remarkable 2 have "templates" for pages? A couple years ago I went from a largely "paperless" life to using a daily planner, largely for my daily work and personal TODO lists, and have found the process very valuable. I toyed around with making a custom template for my daily notes/lists, and using the RocketBook ecosystem (maybe with just my own printed templates and using their app for scanning), but in the…

Yeah it does, pretty certain you upload custom ones too though I've never tried it

Yes you can, in fact you can ssh/scp into the device since it runs Linux and transfer over any .png files to use as templates. It's pretty neat and unusual to be able to do that on a consumer devices these days.

Check out https://remarkablewiki.com/tips/templates

Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by ct0 » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

yumraj wrote: post #204

youhavetosayit wrote: post #130

Remarkable 2 is better, because of the features it doesn't have. The best feature of Remarkable 2 is how quiet it is, it doesn't do anything except for Book reading and note taking. No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech.

> No notifications, no messaging, no email, quiet tech. Also, no spyware..

thinking the same thing. how damaging to the brand that once I hear Huawei, I think of spyware.

Re: Huawei MatePad Paper – eInk Tablet

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Post by StopDarkPattern » Tue, Mar 01, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

Demcox wrote: post #77

murat124 wrote: post #53

Looks great but I have trust issues. I would consider if it didn't have microphone (it has 4) and if it supported working offline.

> it has 4 A freaking eInk tablet with microphones what the hell lol edit formatting...

tldr; china