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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by jamespo »

aithrowaway1987 wrote: post #176
gizmo wrote: post #54

What does the ReMarkable really excel at? You can make notes, but the software is not that great from what I've seen. It doesn't have end-to-end encryption so I wouldn't use it for anything important. You can read PDFs but typing notes is much faster on a desktop/laptop, and for nontechnical books a kindle is much better form factor. You can use it to draw, but e-ink is inferior to a wacom tablet or iPad pro. e-ink i…

I learn best via writing things out by hand in my own words, and almost never read the notes afterwards. I am also profoundly disorganized :) Before I got a reMarkable I had accumulated (and thrown out) dozens of bulky paper notebooks. Now those are all digital. Despite reMarkable's marketing around high-quality hand-drawn professional notes, I suspect crappy "transient" notes to aid memory and mental organization ar…

This is spot on, and my main use case as well.

However it would be good if it OCR'ed in the background and created a searchable index.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-ha...

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by gadders »

I'd love to use one of these at work (or a similar product) but they've been banned because they ship the data off to some other cloud somewhere so they've been deemed a security risk.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by adastra22 »

ilynd wrote: post #331
adastra22 wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For someone with ADHD, “do not disturb” is not a reliable solution to the distraction problem.

Why don't you just not install any apps besides work apps on the ipad?

Mere internet access (which you can’t really remove) and shiny UI elements are the problem.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by _benj »

freilanzer wrote: post #332
_benj wrote: post #290

I had an iPad Air, which I changed for a reMarkable 2 and I couldn't be happier! I see a lot of people here commenting about the limitations of it, and I get it. For me personally those limitations are features. My needs are mostly note taking and reading technical PDFs, and for that the reMarkable is fantastic. I used it extensively while taking Calculus, which, it was great to use as many pages as I needed and to w…

> My needs are mostly note taking and reading technical PDFs, and for that the reMarkable is fantastic. I do both of those and I dislike the RM2. There's little space for notes above and below the PDF page, no infinite canvas. I have more space on the back of a printed PDF (to the left of the current text page) than in the RM2. So, all note taking in a PDF for me is just keywords, while I would much prefer to put tex…

Makes sense… my note taking is more like highlighting and such, since I later get those out into my project documentation

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by winter_blue »

I don't get why the Canadian price is CA$929 when the US price is $579.

That's an "exchange rate" of 1 USD = 1.6045 CAD. That is a far cry from the actual exchange rate (which is 1 USD = ~1.35 CAD).

And ReMarkable isn't the only company selling products at rip-off pricing to Canadians.

This absolutely sucks.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by vessenes »

nerdjon wrote: post #325

Every time I see this device pop up, I really struggle to find out what exactly this has over something like an iPad with an Apple Pencil? With this one being $579 including the basic marker. The iPad Air with an 11" screen with the cheaper pencil is $678. iPad with an 11" screen and the cheaper pencil is $428. If it is the screen feel, how does that compare to the paperlike screen protectors for iPad? Some say a lac…

Writing this on an iPad - have bought like 5 RM2s for myself, employees and kids. It’s a great device. I just ordered the Pro. It comes very close to replacing a pad of paper, and has a bunch of quality of life benefits over paper. I’m not saying it’s better than a pad of paper, but it’s the first eink device I had used that offered a principled alternative.

I mainly use it for my journal/planner, using like a 1200 page PDF. Could I have that PDF on my iPad? Yep. Do I? No, the experience of the ultra high quality iPad color, pixels, brightness, interface, UI, all that just puts your (my) brain in a different space.

Anyway, it’s not for everyone, but I think most people who give it a try for note writing prefer it to the iPad.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by eightysixfour »

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.

Every time I look at it I get turned off by Android 11 being so old. I don’t know the Google ecosystem as well, how much longer will that API version be supported? Does it get security updates? Can I unlock it and install something less Googled?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by nasmorn »

goosedragons wrote: post #334
ilynd wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't you just not install any apps besides work apps on the ipad?

I don't think Apple let's you completely remove Safari. That in itself is a giant distraction.

You can have a different person set up parental mode with an unknown pin

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by geraldwhen »

winter_blue wrote: post #346

I don't get why the Canadian price is CA$929 when the US price is $579. That's an "exchange rate" of 1 USD = 1.6045 CAD. That is a far cry from the actual exchange rate (which is 1 USD = ~1.35 CAD). And ReMarkable isn't the only company selling products at rip-off pricing to Canadians. This absolutely sucks.

Looks like 20% VAT
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