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Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by janderland »

selykg wrote: post #394
zaphar wrote: post #342

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My review is complete opposite of yours. I also prefer the notepad style of note taking but the remarkable means that my notes are available on my phone or computer whenever I need it. It is the first note taking tablet I've used that actually feels like I'm writing on paper. It's writing and drawing latency is fantastic and the matte surface with the pen replicates the feel better than anything else I've tried. As a…

Shocking to hear because it can’t even do OCR so you can search your own notes. So, you flip through page by page to find your notes? I’d rather buy an iPad for GoodNotes which lets you search your hand written notes

Generally speaking, I only use notes for at most a week after I wrote them. Anything beyond that and I type up a document. So while I do wish it had search capabilities, it doesn’t really bother me.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by awill »

agentcoops wrote: post #383
zaphar wrote: post #342

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My review is complete opposite of yours. I also prefer the notepad style of note taking but the remarkable means that my notes are available on my phone or computer whenever I need it. It is the first note taking tablet I've used that actually feels like I'm writing on paper. It's writing and drawing latency is fantastic and the matte surface with the pen replicates the feel better than anything else I've tried. As a…

I share your review 1000x. I pretty much exclusively read PDFs, mostly OCRd but sometimes not. reMarkable is the only ereader I’ve ever found usable. I do agree that the subscription model feels tacked on, but there’s good tooling otherwise (I don’t use the cloud service myself). I highly recommend it as an ereader if you want one predominantly for research, actively taking notes on your documents at home and on-the-…

Subscription? No way I'm buying that. Why can't it just connect to an existing cloud storage (dropbox, Drive, iCloud). It's so ridiculous that every company wants to offer their own, highly targeted sync option.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by csdvrx »

solarkraft wrote: post #286
girvo wrote: post #246

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I have the best of both worlds: my Boox Note 2 is an android tablet but is a 10” e-ink Wacom note taking device too. It’s been brilliant, albeit less polished in some corners than the RM2 of course — but the note taking experience (and reading experience) is not one of them: it’s fantastically polished and performant. And got crazy good after sales support with firmware updates too to add new features to their notes…

> it’s fantastically polished and performant Except when you want to zoom, pan, not zoom/pan while writing or want an infinite canvas (I do). Or if you don't want your page's content to completely shift away from its background (irreversibly) when rotating the device. Those are just the most prominent bugs I remember, there were more. I love the writing feel of E-Ink; the software makes it unusable. You may be thinki…

> I love the writing feel of E-Ink; the software makes it unusable.

Agreed. It needs specially designed software.

> If anyone reading this is also interested in hacking around on Boox devices, let's talk, maybe: https://gitter.im/boox-users/community

I am.

I recently got a Nova Air C and I'd like to do a few things with it. I'm mostly interested in getting an optimized terminal to use with the rooting feature, to replace the termux frontend by something that'd be better optimized for eink while reusing termux packaged tools.

There seems to be private APIs to do great software, at least on the Sony DPT, Mooink and Fujitsu Quaderno devices from the Sony spinoff Linfiny.

For example, check how this gets faster rewrites on a more limited zone: https://github.com/DPT-RP1/dpt-canvas

A terminal often writes to a small portion of the screen, so everything else could remain static and without ghosting, while this portion of the screen getting new characters would get fast text rewrites, a bit like how you when you write on the notetaking app, it shows immediately yet a bit fuzzy, then it's redrawn later in high quality.

In would require talking to these APIs (so maybe with different modes for different brands like Linfiny/Boox/Remarkable/Kindle) + maintaining a simple map of the terminal screen to do invalidation/refresh as needed.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by csdvrx »

gamblor956 wrote: post #386
solarkraft wrote: post #286

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> it’s fantastically polished and performant Except when you want to zoom, pan, not zoom/pan while writing or want an infinite canvas (I do). Or if you don't want your page's content to completely shift away from its background (irreversibly) when rotating the device. Those are just the most prominent bugs I remember, there were more. I love the writing feel of E-Ink; the software makes it unusable. You may be thinki…

I had the same issues with my Nova 3, but many of them were fixed by the 3.2 firmware update. There are still some bugs, but they greatly improved the pen experience.

Now waiting for 3.3.1 as 3.3 seems very buggy!

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by csdvrx »

AlanYx wrote: post #399
csdvrx wrote: post #388

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> My review is complete opposite of yours Have you tried other devices? The remarkable is about bottom of the barrel, with its only good point being a low latency. For everything else, you'd be better served by a Sony Digital Paper or a Fujitsu Quaderno, and their latency is low enough to not bother me > I don't mind occasionally starting it back up Something that's not stable/trustworthy can't be my notetaking devic…

>For everything else, you'd be better served by a Sony Digital Paper or a Fujitsu Quaderno I strongly agree with this, if your application is academic paper review or document review.

No, I do such reviews, but I also take notes, interact with a terminal, read books, hack etc.

The boox and the previous gen of Sony are easy to root: there're even guides available. I may write such a guide for the new gen eventually.

Also, they are cheaper, with better customer support, there's no need for special software or subscription.

So I insist: the remarkable has only one small feature where it's ahead. I got one and promptly returned it, as it would have been a downgrade for just everything else.

I've got a collection of eink devices (Moaan/Xiomi inkpalm and inkpalm plus, Sony, Fujitsu, Boox...), and I have very low standards: anything that I can somehow use makes the cut.

The remarkable didn't, which is telling.

It's just bad, sorry. It's marketed to the linux/free software community so it's good if you want some geek cred, but personally I don't care: I root as needed, and write my own tools if required.

Maybe that's why I didn't like the remarkable: I don't need their inferior offering as I can just take something better and make it dance the way I want lol

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by cableshaft »

sulam wrote: post #251
cableshaft wrote: post #227

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I know a board game illustrator currently using a reMarkable 2 for drawing his illustrations. Those illustrations are being used in final versions of games. They look extremely detailed. Not sure if he'd get the same level of detail on an iPad or Surface Pro. He thinks it was worth the purchase for him. Also I think part of the appeal for this is you're not staring at a backlit screen like you would be with those dev…

Sorry, but have you looked at Procreate? There is absolutely no comparison to what you can do on an iPad. It’s basically a Wacom plus one of the high end art apps. Anything that you can do on a Remarkable can be done better on an iPad with respect to drawing, once you add a Paperlike to replicate the texture. I guess if you only did pencil sketches outside, the Remarkable would win.

I'm not the board game illustrator. My art skills aren't that great. I just see what he posts on Facebook in board game design/art groups.

I suspect eye strain was a consideration he had in making his purchase, though. He did all-digital illustration before this point (and I'm sure he still does, this is just a tool in his toolchain. He can't add color to his drawings on the reMarkable, for example). This guy had at least one game sold in Wal-mart and quite a few successful Kickstarters with his artwork (looks like he's done art for about 40 games in the past three years, he's been busy), so it can be used professionally.

This game in particular I know he did all the black-and-white versions using reMarkable, as he posted his in-progress pictures of it, on his device, on Facebook. You can see those versions in the video even, near the end of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4LOX55h-8Y

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by Aachen »

n-i-m-a wrote: post #298
Aachen wrote: post #254

Since when do things cost 50% more in euros than in dollars? I've always treated it as 1:1 in my head for convenience, but 280 USD or 350 EUR is a major difference. (Edit: Internet says it should be €280.) Not sure if I'd use this device but it seems nice, and for 250 it's worth thinking about. For 350 it's not even a question.

Did you consider VAT in that €280?

You don't pay VAT in the USA? I don't remember specific examples but usually prices of phones or such were just 1:1 even if the exchange rate was like .95

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by bakoo »

chrisweekly wrote: post #267

Love my rm2, use it for hours every day. But their stylus is overpriced and fragile. LAMY All-Star is a way better choice, 100% compatible, and has a programmable multifn button (hold to access eraser tool, doubletap to undo).

Thanks for the tip!

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by roflyear »

harryvederci wrote: post #122
abofh wrote: post #110

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33352967

Not a fan of this whole "HN is being gamed" thread, but dammit this made me laugh out loud.

You don't believe people try to get stuff to the front page of HN and Reddit?

I'm not saying there is a foolproof way to do it, but this is what marketing and PR firms do every day.

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