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Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by trentnix »

1123581321 wrote: post #419
trentnix wrote: post #183

I was considering one of these last year but one of the reviews I watched suggested the experience wasn’t as good if you are a lefty. The UI, according to them, was tuned for a right-handed writer’s experience and they frequently triggered buttons and menus accidentally. I would love to hear from any left-handed RM2 owners about their experiences and whether they experienced similar issues.

I'm a lefty. I suppose I am used to backwards interfaces but I'm not bothered by it not being optimized for me. What I really like is not smearing my hand on ink or graphite as I write a line.

The struggle is real!

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by thaumasiotes »

Mezzie wrote: post #360
thaumasiotes wrote: post #159

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> i can't stop marveling at paper as a medium -- it got so many things right. it certainly wasn't the first try by humans. we tried clay plates and sheep skin and bamboo chips, until we hit upon paper. but nonetheless it's amazing that paper is still not surpassed after more than a thousand years. Does paper have any advantage over vellum ("sheep skin") other than being cheaper? Most of the media you mention are supe…

> Does paper have any advantage over vellum ("sheep skin") other than being cheaper? Ink takes far less time to dry on paper as opposed to vellum from my understanding. It's also thinner and easier to use in printing presses. Paper also can be produced in various thicknesses/with various textures to allow for different kind of work. (Think newspaper paper vs. watercolor paper). Paper is also recyclable - you can brea…

> Paper is also recyclable - you can break down paper and use it to create new paper.

You say this like it wasn't completely routine to do it with vellum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palimpsest

> Paper also can be produced in various thicknesses/with various textures to allow for different kind of work. (Think newspaper paper vs. watercolor paper

Again, this sounds like it's purely driven by cost concerns. Newspapers aren't printed on paper that's better suited to being a newspaper than the normal stuff. They're printed on awful, kleenex-like paper that will tear in a light breeze and that smudges ink all over you if you touch it at all. But I assume newspaper paper is even cheaper than other paper.

(And indeed, newspapers with a high opinion of themselves produce separate "archival quality" editions on non-awful paper!)

Clay and vellum can also easily be produced in "various thicknesses" (see: palimpsests!), though admittedly it's tough to get clay to be as thin as you'd like.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by jonwest »

pdntspa wrote: post #364
boesboes wrote: post #329

Not sure why this pops up now, nothing new afaik, but I'll take this as a chance to leave a quick review ;) I bought one during the kickstarter, mostly for note taking; but also as a ereader & perhaps drawing tool. - For note taking: I prefer a simple paper notebook, as my notes are more procedural. I don't really look back often. It's fine. Just not better then paper for note taking imo. - As a e-reader, it is absol…

The e-reader is alright, they have been adding features to it on a regular basis and now it's decent. But it has one big advantage in that you can drop PDFs onto it with no changes and then you can scribble all over them with the pen. (I am not a big fan of MOBI/EPUB and most of my content is in PDF.) My amazon ereader couldn't do that. I love mine! It's a fantastic device and I am glad I got on the bleeding edge of…

It still doesn’t have bookmarks. Still. This isn’t even just missing reader functionality but would be really helpful in notes as well. Yes, you can get around this with hacks… that are wiped out along with your custom templates as soon as you update.

The web interface fails to upload for me about 80% of the time.

The hardware works brilliantly. Aesthetically, it is an objectively beautifully designed device.

Connect subscription is useless to me, and I’ve never used it.

I’m still torn on the purchase, about a year later. It’s… ok, and I like having it around as it scratches the “want to write but I don’t like having 40 notebooks” itch. It would be nice to have a backlight as well, but most of the time I’m alright without.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by akamaka »

funksta wrote: post #305
akamaka wrote: post #223

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Is it easy to use for reading daily news, or would that require some hacking to get my news content to transfer to it automatically?

There's nothing in the main ecosystem for getting news content on the device (besides manually sending individual articles to the rM via the chrome extension). I'm working on a project that pulls from RSS/Twitter/Reddit, formats all your subscriptions into a single pdf, and syncs to Google Drive (which the rM can sync with). It's working great for me so far but is the closest to "automatic" I think you can achieve wi…

That’s great to hear, thanks for your response. I think I’ll buy it and try to hack together something similar for my news sources.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by necovek »

Aeolun wrote: post #418
necovek wrote: post #217

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How about that LG OLED C2 Evo 55" TV? Do you prefer that over LG OLED C1 or maybe LG NanoCell 80 Series or Nanocell 90 Series? Or maybe those Apple iPhone XS Max phones? Or iPhone 14 Plus or iPhone 13 Pro Max? Are these knock-offs sold by a reseller on Amazon? What I am saying is that there are (universally accepted as) good products that have silly names. Naming is done by marketing departments trying to be clever,…

Yes, they do, actually. The difference is that I know the Apple/LG brand. I’m not even sure what the brand name (if any) is in the OP.

While I do know what the brand is (it's "Onyx Boox"), I would certainly not vouch for them. But I wouldn't vouch for either Apple or LG: they make some crappy products as well.

But just like with product names, I prefer to judge products not on the brand, but on their qualities. Non-sponsored reviews and a fit for my needs is what I care about.

Anyway, even recognized brand names were once only starting in fields they ended up dominating. Onyx Boox is a recognizable name in the e-reader space for anyone looking for a non-Kindle e-reader (and probably quite comparable to reMarkable in how "famous" they are).

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by zaphar »

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

I don't do my all of my notes in a single document. I create new documents that are specific to whatever I'm taking notes on. That plus the new tagging capabilities make it pretty easy to find whatever I'm looking for.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by L0stLink »

wiseowise wrote: post #55
L0stLink wrote: post #51

I honestly cannot see the value in ReMarkable after the Kindle Scribe announcement. The kindle has a newer faster, 300dpi display vs 226dpi on the ReMarkable. I am waiting on reviews before ordering one for myself, but I can already see that Kindle Scribe is going to be disruptive for this segment.

Supposedly higher latency and worse experience when writing(also supposedly). I own Remarkable 2, and unless they can replicate same paper feeling, it won’t a replacement for Remarkable. But it is a nice eBook reader, yes.

I am hoping the carta 1200/1250 display which ever it ends up shipping with will help to reduce latency, but for my use case which is more reading and less note taking it is seemingly perfect.

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by tuffacton »

Operyl wrote: post #303
tuffacton wrote: post #290

I bought one hoping to try it with the expectation I could return it using their 100-day guarantee. Ultimately decided the experience was too painful for my usual workflows in terms of reading and annotating my PDFs for grad school and work. Their return process was the most PAINFUL return experience I've ever had to go through. You have to specify exactly what you're returning from their online menus and they use a…

I had the same calculus, I bought it expecting to see if it would improve workflows, determined it didn't, and did the return. Didn't have this problem, remember the process being particularly easy honestly. Perhaps they revamped it since you or I did it? I returned mine in September of this year (before they announced the Connect changes, go figure).

Just went through my emails. This was all early 2021 so perhaps they’ve fixed the return process since then!

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by AnyTimeTraveler »

jan_g wrote: post #271
nathell wrote: post #47

I’ve bought myself a reMarkable 2 with the approach that „I’m just getting an expensive toy” (ie not an everyday work tool, just a nice gizmo). And it’s been great, if a bit pricey. (On the flip side, I have a free subscription.) Some things I’ve used it for, so far: - To write handwritten.blog. - As a notebook. Nothing much to mention here. Being able to pick a page template (plain/dotted/lined/squared) is nice. - R…

Hey there, does sharing the screen to Mac require some kind of cloud sync? If so, is there any noticeable delay from sketching on the device to appearing on Mac?

I wrote pipes-and-paper[1] which sort of shares your screen without any cloud. Getting to what the display puts out is difficult, but recording the pen strokes isn't. So what I wrote is a small webserver that runs on the reMarkable (1 and 2) that sends the penstrokes to the webbrowser via Websockets. It draws all penstrokes on a camvas in the browser and also deletes strokes when the eraser is used.

[1] https://github.com/AnyTimeTraveler/pipes-and-rust

Re: reMarkable 2

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Post by solarkraft »

csdvrx wrote: post #404
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 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 rep…

> I am

Feel free to join - I find there to be no good community for this so far (there was one on Discord, but the owner nuked it).

> There seems to be private APIs to do great software

Boox has an SDK that is a little bit documented here: https://github.com/onyx-intl/OnyxAndroidDemo

It's a bit hard to understand what component to use for what, if my motivation allows and you're interested I can look for my notes about it. I've personally used the third-party PNGNote as a nice reference: https://github.com/karino2/PngNote

> A terminal often writes to a small portion of the screen, so everything else could remain static and without ghosting

The tablet already handles partial updates pretty well for me, including for Termux.

> 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.

On a technical level you may be looking for something to automatically switch between one of the fast modes and normal mode/manually refresh the screen. However: Even in X mode the response is definitely not instant. I think the SDK allows directly painting pixels which should be a lot faster and very powerful, but I haven't seen anyone doing so in the wild so far. Let's definitely stay in contact if you're interested in that!

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