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Flicker?? Are you talking about CRT monitors still?
LCDs still flicker
One thing that's rarely mentioned about this device, but is the reason I sprung for it, is that the developers left an SSH interface into the device over USB, so you can program custom apps! People have made some neat stuff, and there's a Rust library for making apps: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
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I was a fairly early pre-order for RM1, early enough that I had forgotten about it in the 6 months or so it took after pre-order for me to get it. But as soon as I get the email for RM2 I pre-ordered again. To your point, it is the product the digital paper market has been waiting for. I am an avid hand-writer. I have been a Levenger Circa user for more than 20 years, and basically had a subscription to the Circa pap…
Your comment on the device being dev friendly and the fact that you wrote your own utilities is really making me consider to preorder RM2. I saw all these comments and wish I can somehow integrate my own workflow into it.
It hurts my heart how conflicted I am about this device. The hardware _is_ there. I love using the original reMarkable tablet _when it works_. But damn there are some stupid software decisions, alongside some absolutely genius ones. (Disclaimer: I've had the original reMarkable tablet for 3 months now) Here's a summary of my experience with it: - It's sometimes unstable, and crashes while I draw. Not super often but…
Heck, even the interface on the remarkable itself is written using Qt!
What is the main reason that make these devices so expensive? Is it low demand? complex technology? or something to do with patents?
Onyx also has one, it's a bit cheaper than the remarkable.
All of these devices have major flaws and upsides.
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I was a fairly early pre-order for RM1, early enough that I had forgotten about it in the 6 months or so it took after pre-order for me to get it. But as soon as I get the email for RM2 I pre-ordered again. To your point, it is the product the digital paper market has been waiting for. I am an avid hand-writer. I have been a Levenger Circa user for more than 20 years, and basically had a subscription to the Circa pap…
Your comment on the device being dev friendly and the fact that you wrote your own utilities is really making me consider to preorder RM2. I saw all these comments and wish I can somehow integrate my own workflow into it.
The software had improved dramatically- they seem to be doing a good to exceptional job at getting incremental features out on a regular tempo without breakage, no simple task- but I think a certain amount of "hammock-time" plus increased awareness of non-digital pain points was necessary for a new perspective to flip into place. (This is re: seemingly small things like using distinct per day notebooks and per week folders, rather than a single monolithic notebook with paper-like day headings etc)
And my workflow is still limited- I am not using the writing recognition at all as yet- and there are plenty of use cases I come up constantly that it doesn't address- smart task lists, various kinds of copy paste, maps (!!!). If one has any kind of paper-based or digital habits adopting the device will be a challenge and involve frustration until it clicks, and probably even after.
But I have confidence both in the device's trajectory and moreover in the ergonomics of a community developer's engagement with the org. There is a lot of open space for patient, flexible developers to build cool stuff in. Cheers.
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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...
The whole "say someone's name 3 times in a mirror" predates Beetlejuice by a long stretch. That said, I don't know of any of the those myths that ended in happy endings for those saying the name, so I think your main point still stands. ;)
I really love the ReMarkable and this was an easy preorder. The only thing I personally disliked was 1. No eraser on the pen and 2. No USB-C support. Both are resolved here
You only get an eraser if you pay an extra $50 for the Marker Plus, which is crazy to me.
Terrible link, the actual reMarkable website is much better. It's a very niche device but I've owned mine for nearly two years and am a big advocate. In some ways, the first model was proof of concept. Excellent hardware and writing experience, but the early versions of the software were horrible, and the device itself is very ugly. The software has improved dramatically in the time I've owned it, going from horrible…
Does it support ePub format ebooks or just PDFs?