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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by widowlark »

funksta wrote: post #222
xrd wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I excitedly went to that channel. I'm overwhelmed! Can you tell me the top three devices he recommends so I can review those videos? Man, he makes a lot of stuff!

I believe he has said the Supernote A5X is his favourite. There's a newer A5X2 coming out later this year to update it (though it has repeatedly been delayed)

The A6X2 is great as well, and fits a surprisingly small niche for smaller writing devices.

I would also love a device that is the size of a pocket notepad someday

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by agentultra »

pjmlp wrote: post #244
bee_rider wrote: post #237

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I just worry about using Android… this sort of e-ink device seems somehow even more personal than a laptop or cellphone (which are already quite personal); like a journal or something. I’d love one that had a community developed OS, like Linux or BSD.

By now it is more than proven that devices with community developed OSes never take off to the amount to keep a sustainable business, and then there is the whole FOSS OS distribution politics on top.

ReMarkable2 is running on Gentoo iirc.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by oniony »

Tieje wrote: post #268

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.

How does cloud storage work without the internet?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by Solstinox »

AlanYx wrote: post #215
packetlost wrote: post #195

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This is pretty much all of my concerns as well. The top like 2/3rds of mine is pretty accurate on the tip of the pencil when writing, but on the bottom 1/3rd it's off by about 2mm and it's freaking obnoxious . It makes me hate writing on it to the point where I've gone back to real paper. I do occasionally use it for reading papers and other page-sized PDFs, but it's really not worth the cost for writing .

Pen accuracy uniformity has always been one of the bigger issues with the RM2 in comparison to its e-ink competitors. It's beyond annoying to pick up the pen to dot an "i" and see the dot appear a mm away from the rest of the letter, especially if you're writing along the right edge of the device. This is probably one of the motivations why they're ditching EMR pens in this new device.

Use the pen that comes with it, magnet side facing the screen and sweep across the areas that are misaligned or the whole screen.

This fixes things for me.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by jchoksi »

I considered getting a ReMarkable a couple of years ago. My primary needs were note taking and PDF reading for studies. The ReMarkable's low powered hardware and limited app ecosystem put me off. Also, I didn't want multiple devices i.e. a tablet and a seperate note taking device.

So, I settled on getting a Samsung Tablet with a S-Pen and using the "Flexcil Notes & PDF Reader" app. The tablet was not cheaper than ReMarkable but I had access to all the apps in the Android ecosystem. The note taking app was not free and its premium features make it cost between £4.59 - £10.49 if billed through Google Play store. The app was well worth it and you can search for reviews of it on Youtube.

If you are planning on getting a ReMarkable for studying, I'd suggest to instead consider using an iPad or Android tablet with pen support instead.

- https://www.flexcil.com/ - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flexcil.fl... - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flexcil-note-good-pdf-reader/i... - https://www.youtube.com/@flexcil5010/videos

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by diffeomorphism »

sofixa wrote: post #39
vermaat wrote: post #23

Wish I could also use this as external MacBook usb-c monitor so I can code during the day.

There are two options for that: * Onyx Boox Mira and Mira Pro: https://shop.boox.com/products/mira * Dasung Paperlike Monitors: https://shop.dasung.com/ Between them you can pick between multiple sizes and specs. I haven't tried either, but I have a number of Onyx Boox devices (a Palma phone sized one, and Nova Air small tablet sized one) and I'm very happy with their quality.

The devices seem nice, but their piracy makes me hesitant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_Boox#GPL_compliance

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by BadHumans »

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?

I worked at company that required all paper notebooks to be handed in and destroyed. There are entire companies based on destroying sensitive paper documents.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by staticman2 »

crazygringo wrote: post #25
ABS wrote: post #2

looks great and, at the same time, it seems they didn't address the single biggest problem I (and many, many, many other people) reported over the years :-( I even wrote about it here on HN in 2021 and nothing has really changed on that front. I have a Remarkable 2 and the device is great, software is improving as well and taking notes is a joy BUT finding those notes later on is next to impossible. OCR is very bad a…

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…

In the old Palm Pilot days the way the OCR worked is you had to do the strokes in a special software approved manner, your natural stroke motion wasn't acceptable, you were expected to learn to write in a special shorthand system called Graffiti.

I'd imagine going by stroke order would be a bit tricky since a lot of people don't write the way their teachers taught them to write. (Think anybody with bad handwriting).

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by tecleandor »

_ph_ wrote: post #111
lidavidm wrote: post #47

I had a reMarkable 2 and gave up it almost solely because it didn't support USB mass storage (like Kobo devices do), making it really annoying to transfer files. Also, their software update made the reader worse, since I went from being able to manually crop the page to fit the viewport to having to carefully pinch-zoom with a bunch of latency and really weird sensitivity. And they seem oddly insistent they're not a…

You can ssh into the remarkable and copy files via scp.

But, afaik, they keep an index and some extra files in their own format to track them [0], so you can't "just" upload the files. You need a tool to do that additional work.

I use RCU [1] for that.

  0: https://remarkable.jms1.info/info/filesystem.html
  1: https://www.davisr.me/projects/rcu/

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by whycome »

chickenimprint wrote: post #197
lidavidm wrote: post #164

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Yeah. Still way more effort than Kobo: plug it in, drag and drop.

I've switched to exclusively using SSH on my Kobo, because I find it less effortful. The connection procedure consists of enabling wifi on the Kobo and clicking on the sftp bookmark in my file browser.

Wait is this an official method?
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