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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…
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Ah, if I'm on the go I think I'd hotspot on my phone and sync via termux, but that is great to hear!
IME IP addresses handed out by my phone’s tethering mode aren’t stable, so it’s sorta more of a hassle than just fishing out the little cable and letting my script run. (The device assigns itself a stable IP address on the USB interface.) Although I haven’t looked at those addresses in some time; perhaps they are more stable now than they used to be.
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 watched the linked video and got kind of excited about buying one, and I was wondering about whether they'd pull the move of making me pay them a subscription to even use the thing I already paid them to own. That would basically make the whole device a non-starter for me.
Somewhere in the midst of this, I realized the actual reason I won't buy it is that I have no real use case for it, even though I think the technology is cool. Your mileage may vary.
[1] https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Using-reMarkable-wi...
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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/ReLaunc…
EInkBro is terrific. I filed a bug last year, the dev fixed it in less than a week. I use the stock launcher, but on an old Nook I used ReLaunchX, it was fine. On that device I only had two applications that I used anyway. I have not tried KOReader, but I can test it for you. What features do you use?
I've had a lot of interactions with the developer and the GitHub repo, and he's been quite responsive. Hasn't addressed everything, but several features added and bugs get smashed fast.
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DC has even worse contrast than e-ink.
Since when does e-ink have bad contrast?
I find myself reading with the frontlight on under most indoors circumstances, unless I'm in direct sunlight. With the frontlight, it's fine. Text may be somewhat more washed out, but that bothers me less than a darkish background.
Under sunlight the contrast is actually about perfect, as white paper tends to be too blindingly bright.
My tablet has several layers: capacitive touch, Wacom, and frontlight, all of which probably contribute to the lower contrast.
Mind: I'm addressing your "bad contrast" question. I find the trade-offs reasonable, and for reading ebooks (as opposed to Web browsing or other app use), the frontlight battery consumption is quite reasonable.
If I'm just using the device casually (e.g., listening to podcasts or checking something quickly) it's fine to use w/o the frontlight, but for immersive reading I'll either have a strong reading light, frontlight, or head for a convenient sunbeam.
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> 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?
(a) employees aren't allowed to have/use their own paper notebooks in the first place
(b) if they do, then, yes, the notebooks don't leave unless Security reviews (if removal is even allowed)
However, any number of such traditional approaches stop working when remote work is a thing.
Technologies are needed if a firm wishes to retain the same level of awareness of what's happening to its IP while allowing employee flexibility (which, hopefully, firms are learning they should strive to allow).
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I check the Reddit post (iykyk) every month for updates on the Supernote A4. It still says this year!! :fingers-crossed:
There's no way they'll make it to this year. It took them a year to get A5X2 from prototype design to "shipping in September". For those not in the know, here's the post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Supernote/comments/rxddxj/some_info...
PS Thanks, I was on mobile, I wouldn’t be able to have found the link
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The main issue I had with my Remarkable 1 was that I couldn't quickly scroll through pages of e-books. If I was looking for something specific in the pages, an ipad allows me to swipe across rapidly. Remarkable was this tedious repeated button press, waiting each time for the screen to refresh. Had to go back to ipad although I loved the device.
Which e-ink devices have had fast enough page scrolling for you?
NeoReader (Onyx's book reader app) also has a lightbox / page preview mode where you can see 4, 9, or 16 pages at once. Obviously too small to read at 16 pages up, but good enough to spot figures, diagrams, chapter breaks, and the like. That renders pretty quickly on ePub or generated PDFs, but can be slow on scanned-in books where you're looking at images of text rather than rendered text.
My wife has reMarkable 2, pre-ordered it before the release. If you are writing a lot or working on a text file to take notes etc. it's a great product. If you're connecting a keyboard to an e-ink device, you're doing something wrong. That's my take after seeing her using it for the last few years. I also agree with other comments here regarding the software being too slow to develop and some dark patterns (such as s…
Which tip/configuration is appropriate for the RM2? Having trouble finding that information on the Lamy site!
looks great and, at the same time, it seems they didn't address the single biggest problem I (and many, many, many other people) reported over the years :-( I even wrote about it here on HN in 2021 and nothing has really changed on that front. I have a Remarkable 2 and the device is great, software is improving as well and taking notes is a joy BUT finding those notes later on is next to impossible. OCR is very bad a…
I'm absolutely fine without OCR and searching if they can give us working links. All I want to do is to be able to doodle a star on a page, or a word, and have that work as a link off to another page in another notebook. That's all you need for a zettelkasten-style system to hold your notes in but I've not seen anyone do it.
I’d’ve shelled out $800 first thing this morning for an RM Pro if they added linking across the system.