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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by throwuxiytayq »

funksta wrote: post #439
throwuxiytayq wrote: post #250

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If you do it this way, can you move pages around within the notebook, across different notebooks, add additional pages, delete pages, change the template for a specific page, etc? Seems like a rather crude workaround

On the reMarkable at least, you can: * move pages around in the pdf * add or duplicate pages * delete pages You can't: * move a page to another notebook * change the template for a page (though you can duplicate a page with that template, and then move it to where the first page was)

Nice, I didn’t know about most of these features. Thanks for clearing that up.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by visarga »

ABS wrote: post #2

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 was hoping rM3 will be about improved OCR, and ideally a GPT chat app with integrated pen - just use GPT4v or something. Their AI integrations are shit.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by kchr »

qiqitori wrote: post #454
destraynor wrote: post #403

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100 times this. The hardware is great. The software sucks. I literally can't believe in 2024 it's still not straight forward to "send a blog post from my phone to my remarkable" without some mangling happening along the way. It was genuinely jawdropping for me, I ended up contacting an employee on LinkedIn to confirm that this wasn't a well supported workflow

Other people in this thread are saying that you can run your own software on it. If that is the case, it should be easy to integrate whatever you want, or am I mistaken?

I believe adding extra components (i.e. custom software) would classify as the "mangling" GP wanted to avoid.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by sam29681749 »

skydhash wrote: post #229
Fraterkes wrote: post #218

Question for hn people: does e-ink vs (blue-filtered) lcd actually matter? As in, is there much indication that lcds have worse effects on eye-strain, sleep and focus, as long as you the light is mostly warm.

LCD screens project light on your face (and in your eyes). E-ink does not. And there's the whole sun thing (altough I rarely use my Kobo outside). I don't know about sleep and focus (I sleep easily and like a rock) but I can use my kobo without glasses, which I can only do for a short time with LCD.

Dumb question, but isn't light being project in our face the only way we can see things? Does it have something to do with the brightness of that light or the fact that it's direct that is bad?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by kstrauser »

loongloong wrote: post #470

Can anyone share their experiences with the new Kobo colour devices with pen support (like the Libra Colour)? Been itching to upgrade my beloved Libra H20. Thanks in advance.

Not color, but I got an Elipsa 2E to augment my Libra 2 (different sizes, different use cases). It works really, really well. The notebook software is nearly as advertised.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by faaarmer »

vaughnegut wrote: post #465
m463 wrote: post #459

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I have a remarkable 2 but don't use it much anymore, mainly because it doesn't have a backlight. Oh, and page turning swipes were hit or miss. that was annoying. I bought it for the same reasons you allude to - open, not locked down, cannot enshittify something you don't have to update. I didn't really buy it for the pen. I tried a 6" kobo klara 2E for a while. You can mount it as a USB device, but you have to hack i…

What did you find hard about sideloading on the Kobo? I've had a Clara and now a Libra, sideloading books is as easy as plugging in a USB cable and clicking and dragging files onto it like it's a usb stick. It's optional, but you can use Calibre with an extension to convert epub to kepub as well.

Or use https://send.djazz.se, I use it a lot It has kepub conversion built in

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by tomjen3 »

dotancohen wrote: post #234
gokaygurcan wrote: post #210

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…

I have a cheap foldable split Bluetooth keyboard that I connect to my e-ink Boox often enough. Why not? The device has a large enough screen to be a laptop and it's very easy on the eyes. I really don't care what the typing latency is, I don't look at the keyboard nor the screen while typing.

Which did you get? I have been looking for a good foldable bluetooth keyboard for a while to pair with my iPads.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by anitil »

croes wrote: post #360
BadHumans wrote: post #277

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I worked at company that required all paper notebooks to be handed in and destroyed. There are entire companies based on destroying sensitive paper documents.

They know that smartphone have cameras?

I hope you don't mind this bit of feedback - your comment comes off as snarky, which may not be what you intended.

People are talking about their experience in sensitive areas, and so restrictions on devices you can bring in/out is fairly typical.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by mook »

dotancohen wrote: post #373
eightysixfour wrote: post #348

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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?

I don't believe that there are third-party Android builds for the Boox devices, simply because they've modified it to better fit E-Ink screens.

Yeah, for me a Boox would have been way more tempting if there were third-party builds available.
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