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Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by freilanzer »

throwaway9524 wrote: post #435
beoberha wrote: post #231

My RM2 is sitting in a drawer. I really wanted to like it and build it into my daily workflow, but the software never made me feel I was being productive. Scrolling through notes is incredibly slow, so any attempt to reference a past note was just met with frustration and yearning for a paper notebook.

Same story with my reMarkable 2. It's one purchase I still regret years later. I take a lot of handwritten notes and bought the reMarkable to keep them organized and indexed for full-text search. Well, the writing recognition turned out to be too imprecise and clunky to use, with many manual steps required and nothing even close to transparent background indexing that lets you search handwritten notes (okay, expectin…

> I'm sure there are use cases where the reMarkable works better, maybe PDF annotation

I can tell you right now that taking handwritten notes and annotating PDFs are my primary use cases and my RM2 has not been in use for several months now. It's just not as good as even pen and paper, let alone a Supernote, for example. Few features, imprecise screen, no search, etc. It took them one a half years after I bought it to introduce drawing of straight lines, and besides that they're apparently focusing on their keyboard - for an expensive device that should primarily be used for handwritten notes, instead of trying to be a laptop.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by alexpetralia »

sam29681749 wrote: post #450
alexpetralia wrote: post #241

I use the Fujitsu Quaderno A4 as my daily reader and notetaker (PDFs only).. it is absolutely fantastic. Simple but extremely thoughtful design. Extraordinarily light, durable, long battery. "It just works".

Most reviews I have seen say the battery life is terrible (which is the reason I haven't bought one). Can you share a little more on your experience and the 'long battery'.

I use it "off and on" (say 1-2 hours each day) for several days.. I probably charge it once every 3 to 4 days (and by then maybe it's 30-40%)? I haven't noticed a battery issue at all. My intuition is it lasts a week with normal usage. I always make sure to keep Wifi/NFC off of course (as it is not an Internet device).

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by alexpetralia »

criddell wrote: post #296
alexpetralia wrote: post #241

I use the Fujitsu Quaderno A4 as my daily reader and notetaker (PDFs only).. it is absolutely fantastic. Simple but extremely thoughtful design. Extraordinarily light, durable, long battery. "It just works".

Does it OCR handwritten notes? Can you export the PDFs that have been annotated? How do you get documents onto and off of the device?

1. It may (as I do know it has OCR) but I am not sure for handwritten notes

2. Yes

3. I download all PDFs onto my phone, then NFC "tap" them onto my device. Similar vice versa

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by laserbeam »

CapeTheory wrote: post #490
adastra22 wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every single update has made my reMarkable tablet worse. I’ve stopped using it as a result. I have absolutely no idea why they went all in on keyboard input, when the whole freaking point of the tablet was that you could write on it like paper.

I've been using a reMarkable since the first release and have never experienced what you describe. Yes, the updated focus on typing more recently - but what else can they really do for the writing experience without new hardware? Lots of updates I don't care about, but none that make it "worse".

I really hate accidentally hitting the text input button when reaching out to change my pen/tool. All other tools I can easily just spam and click through, but the text one is slow and messes up the display with the virtual keyboard. I get the physical keyboard, but the virtual one has so far only annoyed me.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by skydhash »

sam29681749 wrote: post #475
skydhash wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I (non-expert) think that it’s the fact that it’s more about the brightness. And screens are really bright. And there’s the contrast with the surrounding environment. I’ve read that the brightness of the screen should be roughly equal to the amount of light reflected by a piece of white paper for ergonomics. E-ink is a surface illuminated by light while lcd are just light filtered and usually brighter.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by paulcole »

adastra22 wrote: post #327
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…

Every single update has made my reMarkable tablet worse. I’ve stopped using it as a result. I have absolutely no idea why they went all in on keyboard input, when the whole freaking point of the tablet was that you could write on it like paper.

> I have absolutely no idea why they went all in on keyboard input

Yeah it sucked how they bricked every Remarkable without a keyboard attached and made everybody mail their markers back in.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by paulcole »

CapeTheory wrote: post #490
adastra22 wrote: post #327

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every single update has made my reMarkable tablet worse. I’ve stopped using it as a result. I have absolutely no idea why they went all in on keyboard input, when the whole freaking point of the tablet was that you could write on it like paper.

I've been using a reMarkable since the first release and have never experienced what you describe. Yes, the updated focus on typing more recently - but what else can they really do for the writing experience without new hardware? Lots of updates I don't care about, but none that make it "worse".

The Remarkable “community” is full of people like this — especially on Reddit.

99% of the time they have some comically unique workflow that Remarkable “needs” to support or they want to read ebooks on the thing and have it be better than a Kindle (which they also hate) or something else that if they did any research before buying would have (hopefully) dissuaded them.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by paulcole »

destraynor wrote: post #403
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…

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

It’s 2024, like 6 people read blog posts lol. Not surprising they don’t support this. Sending a PDF from phone to Remarkable is dead simple.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by whereistimbo »

cubefox wrote: post #323

So according to the "deep guide" video review, this uses E Ink's "Gallery 3" e-paper screen. Which, unlike conventional displays, doesn't use additive subpixel color mixing. Instead it uses subtractive color mixing inside each pixel: It layers transparent cyan, magenta and yellow, and opaque white pigments, over each other. Which creates cyan, magenta, yellow and white as primary colors, and red, green, blue and blac…

Japan Display Inc showcased e-paper like LCD 11 years ago. It even has e-paper features like retained pixel at low power consumption. With further work notetaking will be possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mdXu9jmTI2A

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by eythian »

beAbU wrote: post #421

I'm in the market for something like this, but for sheet music. Something where I can upload PDF copies of music to a reader, annotate them with the stylus, and easily page through the music as part of a performance. I sing choir, so weight is a factor. My Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra is just a tad too heavy. I read lots of discussions on comparable devices on this post, can anyone recommend something suitable for music? On a…

the reMarkable lets you upload PDFs and then you can write on them, so perhaps it can do what you need.

I was using mine a little while ago for a PDF-based RPG-type thing which involves a lot of writing on the PDF and it worked quite well (the main downside was the PDF took a while to render as it's very image-heavy but that might work better in your case.)

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