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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by breck »

zehaeva wrote: post #220
breck wrote: post #212

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No I get it and loved the RM open source community. I was involved with that a few years ago. At the time the SaaS stuff was new and I personally thought they should have gone the other way and doubled down on a fully open stack, but then I kind of moved on to other things and haven't kept up with what has happened since, and whether they were doubling down on closed source/SaaS or the opposite.

I do agree them pressing the SaaS angle feels bad. Once I found out about the stack that the RM is built on I was blown away, I definitely had a moment of "why are they hiding this?". I told a few others in my office (we're software engineers) and everyone was completely unaware that this was an option. They really do bury the capabilities of the hardware. It feels like a tax on the less technical/informed.

> Once I found out about the stack that the RM is built on I was blown away, I definitely had a moment of "why are they hiding this?"

Right?? I mean, their tech is amazing. They are clearly cream of the crop, passionate, engineer craftspeople. They should be the anti-Apple and be extremely open. RaspberryPi style.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by fph »

How do e-ink devices work for teaching? My use case is teaching mathematics: streaming my notes to a class using a projector, and recording them. I am reasonably satisfied with a Surface tablet, apart from the lack of Linux; do you think this would be an improvement?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by conradludgate »

I bought the rM1 but using it for notes was pretty poor experience :/ Writing was AMAZING. Reading back my notes on other pages was awful. I just want to quickly flip between pages. Apparently the rM2 was no better. I don't expect this to have significantly improved the refresh rate

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

SSLy wrote: post #163
Rinzler89 wrote: post #103

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It comes from the fact that I'm tired of subscriptions, and some SW being "tailored made" is not always synonymous with very high quality. Community developed FOSS SW can sometimes be better quality and more functional than commercial SW. For example I see KDE as being far superior than whatever Microsoft is doing now on the Windows desktop side, where one is free developed by the community and the other costs money…

Ah yeah, that gobshite pdf reader shipped with kobos is adobe's digital editions. Incredible ass jank with bad concept (it's for their DRM). OTOH Kobo's Epub reader is very nice, if you convert your books to kepub – use callibre.

It's deeply fascinating to me that the company who invented PDF can suck so hard at making PDF readers.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by nfriedly »

beoberha wrote: post #231

My RM2 is sitting in a drawer. I really wanted to like it and build it into my daily workflow, but the software never made me feel I was being productive. Scrolling through notes is incredibly slow, so any attempt to reference a past note was just met with frustration and yearning for a paper notebook.

Pass it on to someone else then. It looks like you can get ~$300 for it on ebay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=remarkable+2&rt=nc&LH_S...

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by tecleandor »

ABS wrote: post #196
tecleandor wrote: post #113

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Well, you can do OCR while using the device but... it's not on device. The device has to be connected to the Internet for OCR to work. I've never checked where does it connect to do it, as I never use it...

but the result is not subsequently used for full text indexing and searching (on device or on desktop) therefore it's useless

Yep, totally.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by JeremyNT »

laserbeam wrote: post #123

I love my remarkable 2. Bought it before "Connect" was a thing, so I don't have a subscription. But I cannot recommend it to anyone. There are better alternatives out there and MyDeepGuide (youtube) has reviewed them all better than I ever could. The software is moving too slowly and often in a wrong direction. Especially since they released the keyboard folio most updates were around typing (which is supar on any ei…

I believe what you say is true for the average HN reader. I also believe the subscription is kind of ridiculous.

However, I also believe there is a market out there for a device like this that is 1) extremely limited and 2) very focused on a few specific tasks (handwriting and document review workflow)

Sometimes the other stuff is a distraction. My wife owns the remarkable 2 and it is really good for what she wants ("just" a replacement for paper).

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by Tieje »

I chose Supernote because the battery is replaceable. Like a real notebook, I don't care about accessing the internet. I care about reading, writing, cloud storage, and product life-time. If I wanted to access the internet, I'd just use a real computer.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by lynndotpy »

donatj wrote: post #184
Terretta wrote: post #119

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> Remarkable 2 and gave up it almost solely because it didn't support USB mass storage, making it really annoying to transfer files We had hoped to buy these for all our paperless office employees, and gave it up almost solely because it was far too easy to transfer files. If they deliver a device with on-device encryption (as this claims) and sync or manual transfer tied (and locked) to company-owned storage, we'd b…

Let me ask you this in all seriousness and with minimal snark - do you confiscate employees paper notebooks when they leave the company?

This isn't unreasonable or unheard of in some contexts, especially anywhere requiring a security clearance.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by layer8 »

dylan604 wrote: post #166
layer8 wrote: post #74

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My reference point is physical paper.

what's the contrast of physical paper in the dark?

We are talking about e-ink without added edge lighting. I found that if I have to crank up the internal lighting of an e-reader to get adequate contrast, then I may as well use a tablet, because it isn’t reflective illumination anymore to the eye.
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