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Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by jan6 »

jfim wrote: post #124
harshalizee wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks amazing. My concern is that it's around $500. That's about the price of an iPad and Apple pencil. Is it really worth the asking price?

It depends what you want to use it for. It's a distraction free device, which has no notifications, web browser, social media, etc. If you get easily distracted by that, then it's worth it as a note taking device IMO.

pretty sure iTablets have a do-not-disturb mode too, which should take care of most immediate distractions, but this thingy could help in the way that yeah, you CAN'T check social media etc...(for which there are apps too, at least on android, which can lock up certain apps with a timer)

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Post by Brakenshire »

jmiserez wrote: post #217
jasondclinton wrote: post #211

I'm very interested but am curious what the ebook consumption experience is like. Can any gen 1 owner comment?

It's rather basic (i.e. not great), and only supports DRM-less epub and pdf.

Have you tried the non-stock software? There’s a port of Plato in one of the repos listed above.

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Post by hinkley »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #186
Avery3R wrote: post #92

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Discussion re: if techcrunch should be banned from hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539255

I wonder if I say dang three times in a mirror, he will show up and take advice on HN policy changes. I really would like to see TC just gone. It didn't use to be this bad, but they've been going downhill since... forever, really.

Beetlejuice didn't so much show up and take advice as he showed up and tried stage a shotgun wedding with your underage daughter in order to exploit some sort of interdimensional green card loophole.

This is suddenly very reminiscent of John Mulaney describing Back to the Future...

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Post by jmiserez »

Brakenshire wrote: post #222
jmiserez wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's rather basic (i.e. not great), and only supports DRM-less epub and pdf.

Have you tried the non-stock software? There’s a port of Plato in one of the repos listed above.

No, sorry. But there's two Youtube videos of Plato in the original Reddit announcement:

https://youtu.be/JHdsqD4xxik https://youtu.be/a2mqXTGGTDE

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Post by fluidcruft »

mandliya wrote: post #31
scottwernervt wrote: post #11

> Hold it with your left hand and write with your right. Sorry, lefties. Well this sucks if it is not leftie friendly as the price and features had me sold.

From remarkable website: Does the reMarkable adapt to left-handed people? If you're left-handed, don't worry. A few of our colleagues are also left-handed. They want to make sure all lefties have an excellent experience with their reMarkable device. You'll be able to set up your reMarkable to left-handed mode when you first set up your device. We've also made it easy to switch between right-handed and left-handed mod…

I think that's talking about the first reMarkable. reMarkable 2 looks very optimized for right handed use.

But I'll be honest--I don't purchase "left-handed" notebooks or use them backwards or left-handed books or anything so maybe it doesn't actually matter as much as right-handed people think it does when righties writing articles imagine what lefties think.

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Post by davesque »

scottwernervt wrote: post #11

> Hold it with your left hand and write with your right. Sorry, lefties. Well this sucks if it is not leftie friendly as the price and features had me sold.

I think that was just misleading fluff. I'm left-handed and I have a current gen reMarkable. It has a good left-handed mode. It looks to me like the metal strip on the left side is meant more as a mount point for the cover. I don't think they neglected lefties in the design of this device. IMHO, the extra space on the left side from the metal strip makes it easier for a left-handed person to rest their palm while writing.

Re: ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery

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Post by jfim »

jan6 wrote: post #221
jfim wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It depends what you want to use it for. It's a distraction free device, which has no notifications, web browser, social media, etc. If you get easily distracted by that, then it's worth it as a note taking device IMO.

pretty sure iTablets have a do-not-disturb mode too, which should take care of most immediate distractions, but this thingy could help in the way that yeah, you CAN'T check social media etc...(for which there are apps too, at least on android, which can lock up certain apps with a timer)

The fact that there are no distractions is actually pretty nice. Just like having a home office puts one in "working mode" when sitting at it, using it puts one in "thinking/reading mode."

It's also pretty good IMO for taking meeting notes, because the only things one can do is listen to the meeting, take notes, and doodle (which has been shown to improve attention and detail recall [0]).

Of course, that also applies to a paper notebook and a nice pen.

[0] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-thinking-benefits-of...

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Post by ACS_Solver »

ScottFree wrote: post #213
ACS_Solver wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People often compare it to an iPad initially, which completely misses the point in my view. The rM has nothing in common with an iPad, and the word "tablet" in the name makes people think of the completely wrong thing. The rM is best thought of as a pen and paper notebook, except of effectively infinite size. There are no apps. The UI (the only user-facing program) has minimal features, most of which are there just t…

Does the "convert to text" feature work as nicely and smoothly as advertised in the Remarkable 2 launch video[0]? If yes, then that alone is worth the price for me. I've tried a number of solutions that have claimed to do this over the years and none of them really work. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWY_bwFMxro&feature=youtu.be...

There are, as you might expect, a few caveats.

The conversion relies on some kind of cloud service (possibly Google's Cloud Vision API). So you need to be connected and there are privacy/security implications. And, it's very dependent on your handwriting. I cannot get coherent results with that feature, but my handwriting is as readable as base64-encoded Perl. I've seen it produce impressively good results when other people try it.

The process itself is indeed smooth, select an item in the menu and a few seconds later you have the text, which can then be emailed.

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Post by pricci »

This seems great and the price is much more achievable now. I personally can't read PDF books from a normal screen. I need paper.

I own a Kindle DX but the screen is not big enough and the software is showing its age.

The fact that you can even use a pencil I this device is a big plus.

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