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ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by eugeniub »

selectodude wrote: post #211
eugeniub wrote: post #116

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This is true, but the paper-like screen protector market is a mess. I spent $40 on the official Paperlike 2, waited a month (preordered), applied it, and it was pretty bad. Not really like paper at all. Then I bought the knockoff-sounding "XIRON Paperfeel" for $15 and it was a vast improvement. Unfortunately they don't make one for the 12.9" iPad Pros with home button.

I've found they chew up the nib on the Apple Pencil as well.

I think that's unavoidable, even on ReMarkable. That's why they sell replacement tips: https://remarkable.com/store/marker-tips

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by lottin »

danShumway wrote: post #230
jbeard4 wrote: post #13

I have been very happy with my ReMarkable 1, and have ordered the ReMarkable 2.0. Hacker News might be interested in the active development community around the device: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable The device is open. It's just an embedded linux device. You can ssh into it, and run arbitrary code. The SDK is based on Qt. You can also connect a keyboard to it over a USB-on-the-go port. I have been…

The device is open -- does that extend to the notes and filesystem itself? I'm very interested in the ReMarkable 2, but I want to be able to write scripts to handle stuff like syncing. If this is something where I know I can get good integration with Emacs/Org-mode on my desktop (letting me insert diagrams on the fly into org-mode files, making one searchable interface between handwritten notes and typed notes, etc),…

In version 1 the converted text couldn't be saved on the device, it could only be sent by e-mail, and so because the text didn't exist on the filesystem it couldn't be accessed via ssh obviously.

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Post by pizza234 »

Karunamon wrote: post #269
jonahbenton wrote: post #201

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Removing DRM from kindle books and converting to PDF, and shipping them as PDFs to the remarkable cloud to sync to the device, are independently solved problems, available as OSS. To my knowledge there is no tool that does both. Nor, better, that also includes the purchase and download steps at Amazon. I personally have automation for all 3 individually but have not wired them together. I think there is a nice little…

Epub would be better than PDF for the use case. AFAIK, you can't reflow text in PDF, so if the page size isn't exactly matched to the device size, all you can do is pan&zoom. Yuck.

Not necessarily, as a significant part of a reading experience is the reader.

For example, I'm bound to a specific PDF reader that has a very powerful annotations system. The last time I checked Epub readers, there was nothing that satisfied my requirements.

A couple of additional notes:

- the downside of reflowing is that you may not be able to take annotations that require absolute positioning

- for almost all the PDF books I've read (books; magazines are a different story, but that won't work with Epub anyway), a 3:2 10" tablet is enough; if the text is not large enough, good PDF readers can mass-crop the pages. Of course, there are ugly exceptions - books that have a different text positioning on odd and even pages (I hate them).

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Post by jbeard4 »

krick wrote: post #273
jbeard4 wrote: post #265

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> But now maybe sounds like I could turn that off and just rsync the files to my Debian tower. Yes, I can confirm this. I have never connected my device to wifi. I backup my notes to my home server using rsync.

You mean rsync via USB? Or can you rsync by WiFi without allowing it to send requests to their services?

> You mean rsync via USB?

I mean rsync via USB (but over ssh protocol - the USB mounts as a network device, rather than as a disk drive).

> Or can you rsync by WiFi without allowing it to send requests to their services?

I have never connected the device to wifi, so I don't know about this.

Re: ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

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Post by krick »

paultopia wrote: post #60

I recently bought the ReMarkable 1 (wasn't willing to wait for preorder on the 2, and the differences don't look that significant). I kinda love it: I'm a professor, and 99% of my use is in reading article PDFs---it's a vastly better experience than reading on an eyestrain-inducing glossy screens or printing off. One major annoyance, though, is that it's clunky to switch between documents---I like to take notes in a…

Is note taking good? How good is OCR? Do you know if it works with other languages/alphabets (cyrillics)? Can it handle usual stuff used in formulas, subscripts/superscripts, fractions, integrals, f : S³ → G, H⊲G ≡ ∀g∈G gHg⁻¹ = H and other weird symbols we use? How about stuff that comes with several columns/rows, like matrices? How about tables?

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Post by boudewijnrempt »

Normille wrote: post #30
jboynyc wrote: post #3

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Did you look at this product? It has an e-ink display. That makes it very different from an Ipad.

How durable is the e-Ink display on these? Whilst I could see myself wanting to own one, I've so far managed to bust the screens on three e-Ink devices I've owned. And I'm not exactly treating them rough. They seem to break with the slightest of knocks. Bad enough when it's a sub £100 e-Reader. But, if I was paying 3 or 4 times that much, I'd expect something that was a bit less fragile.

Um... In my household we've gone through seven ereaders, used by four persons. Nobody has ever been able to bust the screen -- the reason people replaced their ereader was because the battery stopped being able to hold charge or the usb port to start wobbling. But the screens were fine, all the time. And e-ink screens are made by one manufacturer anyway.

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Post by mitjak »

RobertoG wrote: post #263
pottertheotter wrote: post #226

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I've always partially wanted something like this, but can't get away from paper. I recently completed a PhD and tried an iPad and my computer, but ended up always printing off articles. It's annoying having a lot of physical paper around, but I'm constantly flipping back and forth in papers and it's so inconvenient to do that digitally. I also find it's so much easier for me to recall information based on where it wa…

I think it's not only you. I have the same problem with e-readers and books, I miss the ease of moving backward and forward in a paper book. Also, I have observed that I remember better what I read in physical books. Maybe it's because the content is associated to something real out there in the world with a cover, a weight, and a position of the content in the book and a position of the book in my bookshelves. It's…

i have the same experience. there is less retention when the object isn't permanent. that's another reason why i think it's important to keep notes as handwritten visually and not convert/OCR into typed text.

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Post by millerm »

pier25 wrote: post #253
nomel wrote: post #166

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In terms of latency, I have trouble believing it's better than the newer iPad Pros (120Hz screen, 240Hz pencil scan).

I have an iPad Pro and the deal breaker is using the pencil over glass. I wouldn't mind a little latency if they get the paper feel right.

Couldn't the paper feel be solved by a simple screen overlay on an iPad? Something thin enough to give the texture? Almost like an anti-glare screen protector. I'll admit, the pencil on glass just doesn't feel right. I'd rather some perceptible drag/friction. It also helps me reduce errors as my drawing and writing styles are abysmal so I need something to keep some traction.

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Post by generalizations »

bgorman wrote: post #72

Would anyone here be interested in a eink phone running something like WebOS optimized for eink displays? I really feel WebOS was too early and PWAs make the barrier to entry much lower for a WebOS-like device.

Absolutely, as long as there was a maps app with traffic updates.
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