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Post by samatman »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

There are jobs where producing a paper notebook is the primary deliverable. Fewer than there were, due to y'know, computers. But it still happens.

It's odd to describe that as confiscation. A lab notebook belongs to the lab, not the researcher, this is understood by both parties. They may or may not have permission to leave the lab with it, but making personal copies of the pages would be espionage.

It's perfectly reasonable to want comparable properties in a paper-replacing device. I can see where you might find that jarring if you haven't been exposed to work conditions where it's normal and expected.

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Post by wslh »

jval43 wrote: post #299

I'm done with ReMarkable, the company. I have the original reMarkable and was enthusiastic at first, but it's been downhill since. It's clear the company is now run mostly by marketing and business people. At some point they didn't do any software development at all, and soon after they actually removed features. None of the original hacker spirit has remained. Most of your money is going to marketing. The device and…

I agree with the comment. Owner of the reMarkable 2. I also think that in this case making an open source ecosystem gives more business benefit for reMarkable because very soon they will disappear with the growing number of competitors (and new tech) arising.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by ajot »

dotancohen wrote: post #219
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'm typing this on my Boox Note Air 2 Plus. I absolutely love this device. I usually use it without the backlight, but sometimes at night I'll use the backlight and the adjustable blue light filter is an absolute must. This is my fifth or sixth E-Ink device, and probably my favorite. It's an Android device, so everything that I was already using works on it. Notably Firefox when properly configured, and Ankidroid.

As I don't have an Android eink device (I do have an Android phone and a Kobo with KOReader, for the record), I would like to know: have you tried (and what are your opinions on) any apps designed specifically for eink screens?

Thinking about EInkBro [0] as the browser or ReLaunchX [1] as the launcher, even KOReader as document reader.

[0] https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro

[1] https://github.com/Leszek111/ReLaunchX

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Post by [deleted] »

jval43 wrote: post #299

I'm done with ReMarkable, the company. I have the original reMarkable and was enthusiastic at first, but it's been downhill since. It's clear the company is now run mostly by marketing and business people. At some point they didn't do any software development at all, and soon after they actually removed features. None of the original hacker spirit has remained. Most of your money is going to marketing. The device and…

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Post by SSLy »

whycome wrote: post #280
chickenimprint wrote: post #197

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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?

No, it's KFmon stuff.

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Post by vimsee »

diggan wrote: post #104
vimsee wrote: post #97

I want to challenge the idea that drawing/writing on what feels like paper is subpar compared to a surface that have the pencil glide a bit more. I always thought writing on paper is something we have to deal with because paper is.. well, the physical medium we always used because it is cheap to manufacture.

I guess it's a bit like putting lemon on fish, in the beginning we did so for a purpose but after a while people just got used to it and now it's a established thing. Similarly, we're so used to feeling at least a tiny bit of resistance when writing that when it isn't there, things feels "greasy" or unnatural. I personally agree with that it feels nicer with a bit of contrast compared to sliding around. Drawing on a…

Yeah, the fish analogy makes sense.

I have a Wacom tablet myself and I do think it is nice to draw on, but I wonder if the surface can be improved. Would love to try possible alternatives.

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Post by freilanzer »

jval43 wrote: post #299

I'm done with ReMarkable, the company. I have the original reMarkable and was enthusiastic at first, but it's been downhill since. It's clear the company is now run mostly by marketing and business people. At some point they didn't do any software development at all, and soon after they actually removed features. None of the original hacker spirit has remained. Most of your money is going to marketing. The device and…

I have the RM2 and it took them one and a half years of me owning it until I could draw straight lines. I still can't search in notes, even after converting them to text. If I don't annotate everything I write with tags, then I'll have a hard time finding it again.

The screen is imprecise, sometimes the line appears 1mm away from the tip of the pen.

Their synchronisation service costs monthly, I think 3€?

I'm simply underwhelmed, especially for this price. The Supernote would have been a much better choice for me - now I'm looking at the Samsung Tab S9 series for real note taking.

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