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Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by topcat31 »

chrisweekly wrote: post #4

Hi Tom, I'm a big fan of my rm2, too -- and am writing to respond to this: > "I’d also love a more formal diary / daily entry system. Kind of like Obsidian’s daily notes. Some kind of date-based notebook inside the Remarkable would be rad (even if it doesn’t sync with your actual calendar!). A daily journaling / diary / planning format would be great. (Yes, right now you can select a day-planner template, but you can…

Oh so this is just a pdf with links embedded so you can jump around? That's pretty neat (and a very slick UI for creating and buying them!)

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by geor9e »

Soon after Remarkable 2 was released, a hacked version of Remarkable 1 was released that added pretty much all the feature upgrades. You needed to buy a new stylus (to use the new eraser end), but you could choose from dozens of brands since it's a widely used standard. The hardware looks slightly different and might have clock speed differences, but is essentially identical. And you don't have to deal with the silly subscription model of the 2. I use it to jot my thoughts down on PDFs in direct sunlight at the park. My macbook/ipad is pretty unusable in sunlight, unless you like squinting and straining. I also bought a smaller Mobiscribe (same thing but small), but I prefer the Remarkable still.

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by hecanjog »

dmitrygr wrote: post #17
hecanjog wrote: post #12

I really liked my remarkable2, but I eventually got the issue where it just stops charging and now it's effectively a brick. Tried all the known workarounds I could find with trickle-charging etc. Someone had tracked the issue down to a malfunctioning temperature sensor preventing charging but I have no idea if that's the problem with mine. Remarkable support would like me to create videos showing every workaround I…

The issue is actually that your usb-c receptacle broke free from the PCB inside. Open and you'll see. I emailed them about it a while ago. They majorly fucked up the design. The connector is on the very edge of a very thin finger of a thin PCB. There is nothing holding it to the case, only the few solder points to a thin PCB. They did not care. I sent photos, explanation, and a rather long essay as to why this should…

Thanks for sharing that. It's disappointing to hear, but that makes sense. (Edit: your analysis makes sense, not remarkable's response to it...) I'm hopeful it can be repaired. (But not by me!)

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by paulcole »

Skywalker13 wrote: post #30
janice1999 wrote: post #27

I would love something like the Remarkable tablet. However I'm not buying a niche hardware product to have my data held hostage by monthly cloud sync fees. Let me use Nextcloud or a service I've already paid for.

The cloud is optional and you have a root SSH access to the tablet. It's possible to impl. your own service for syncing or just sync via SSH with scripts.

They don’t want a solution. They want to hate on a corporation.

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by terminus »

calamari4065 wrote: post #20

The RM homebrew community has answers for some of the problems the author poses. I haven't tried it personally, but there is a VNC package that will let you use your tablet as an auxiliary screen. The hacking community is small but pretty dedicated. There's a few exciting projects in the works, like a complete desktop interface called Oxide. The RM tablets are kinda neat in that you get root access out of the box. Yo…

> That said, Remarkable the company has been fairly shitty. They removed the links to the dev tools, and don't really respond to requests for source that they are obligated to release under the GPL in any reasonable time.

Which project did they not release GPL'd code for? They do have the kernel source available: https://github.com/reMarkable/linux/tree/zero-sugar

The top level github page also lists their trees for other projects.

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by graypegg »

I got an RM2 last year, and it's been the only product I've ever used a satisfaction guarantee on to return. I was looking to replace paper, which is basically always around my desk in sticky note or free-relator-notepad form.

The RM2 didn't have a great way to just give me a blank note right away. It had the quick notes journal, but that was still its own notepad you had to open up. Everything was slow to get to. A physical button, screen clear, start writing. That's what I was hoping for.

The lack of a backlight was surprising, it's easy enough to turn on a light, but when everything else seems to have one, it was a little annoying to have to turn it towards a window to read a note because it's a little later towards dusk.

The note parsing was unforgivable, literally writing a whole new page rather than indexing your own handwriting. Search was abysmal, since it only seems to search these notes that have been transcribed, and turned into a new page of just text.

It's a lot closer to an e-ink typewriter. I think they should market it like that. Had a lot of trouble using it as a notebook. (YMMV, I know a lot of people love it, though they tend to replace the software on it.)

Everything was clunky. Back to my notepads!

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by jadbox »

novalistener wrote: post #19
porcoda wrote: post #9

I was a big fan of my RM2, but found the move to the subscription service a couple years ago to be off putting. Sure, I can turn off WiFi, or just use the network to ssh into it, but it felt less than great. I recently got a Supernote to replace it and so far love it. The company seems a bit more open and less likely to try to push me to some kind of subscription/cloud thing. They promote the “works great offline, no…

I’m really excited for the upcoming Supernote A5X2. So many smart and community-friendly decisions in the design and software. My reMarkable 2 is still holding up, but I’ll be giving it a close look when the time comes for a replacement.

When is the A5x2 coming and what exactly are you excited about it?

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by squarefoot »

porcoda wrote: post #9

I was a big fan of my RM2, but found the move to the subscription service a couple years ago to be off putting. Sure, I can turn off WiFi, or just use the network to ssh into it, but it felt less than great. I recently got a Supernote to replace it and so far love it. The company seems a bit more open and less likely to try to push me to some kind of subscription/cloud thing. They promote the “works great offline, no…

>... but found the move to the subscription service a couple years ago to be off putting

This is so common these days. I'm still waiting for the PineNote to become stable enough to be usable by non developers. It's FOSS, so it would be immune from the subscription service plague, but they're progressing really slowly.

https://pine64.com/product/pinenote-developer-edition/

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