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Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by shinycode »

fragmede wrote: post #23
shinycode wrote: post #2

Anything an iPad can’t do ?

In today's attention economy and digital distraction landscape, the appeal of this product is in what it can't do and doesn't have. There's no web browser to get distracted with Reddit/HN on, there's no Facebook/TikTok/Instagram/YouTube app to doomscroll and waste away time with. it's a digital piece of paper, without the distractions of candy crush. When you open a new tab in your browser, what do you get? This give…

It’s kind of sad that the only way to get control over our devices is to buy one with such limited functionalities. Personally I don’t have the budget for an iPad and a remarkable so I prefer cutting off all socials and wasted time on websites and enjoy the iPad with all its potential

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by dmitrygr »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #60
dmitrygr wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The issue is actually that your usb-c receptacle broke free from the PCB inside. Open and you'll see. I emailed them about it a while ago. They majorly fucked up the design. The connector is on the very edge of a very thin finger of a thin PCB. There is nothing holding it to the case, only the few solder points to a thin PCB. They did not care. I sent photos, explanation, and a rather long essay as to why this should…

> They majorly fucked up the design. > There is nothing holding it to the case, only the few solder points to a thin PCB. They did not care. Which is more plausible: that a company infamous for its shitty warranty/return policies accidentally/incompetently designed the USB connector to have weak physical support, or purposefully designed it to be weak so that people would be forced to keep buying replacements?

I am unprepared to claim malice here since I do not have enough information, and I would not levy an accusation like than without more evidence than I have. But it definitely is obvious to anyone who has ever made anything that real humans really use in the real world that this is a poor way to affix a USB-C connector if you intend for it to last

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by urbandw311er »

KennyBlanken wrote: post #48

It is positively bizarre that HN will scream blue bloody murder about "the apple tax", "apple spying", "poor repairability" and so on, and yet cannot shut up about a device that: * REQUIRES a cloud subscription and active data connection to do its most core functionality: OCRing text you write on it * costs more after a year or two than an iPad with Apple Pencil * is completely unrepairable; no parts availability, no…

They don’t make an iPad with an e-ink screen do they?

For me, that’s what I like about my Remarkable.

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by sylens »

I really want to buy one of these eInk tablets but the thing that holds me back is I want seamless sync of my notes and pdfs with something like OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox - whatever. I don’t want to be constantly emailing myself files

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by mdekkers »

cge wrote: post #59
calamari4065 wrote: post #20

The RM homebrew community has answers for some of the problems the author poses. I haven't tried it personally, but there is a VNC package that will let you use your tablet as an auxiliary screen. The hacking community is small but pretty dedicated. There's a few exciting projects in the works, like a complete desktop interface called Oxide. The RM tablets are kinda neat in that you get root access out of the box. Yo…

I think it's important to note the wider limitations of the homebrew community. I bought an rM2 relatively early on, enough to have lifetime free subscription access that I've never used, as I've always used homebrew arrangements instead. There is a definite sense that the community is tired and diminishing. I think most packages are only compatible with the at this point quite old v2 software version, including the…

I spent a lot of time looking for a digital notepad, and the RM2 was high up on my list. I ended up buying a Supernote recently for exactly the reasons you mention in your post. Remarkable just come across as a really shitty company with a really shitty (and inexplicable) approach to software for their platform.

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by mdekkers »

graypegg wrote: post #38

I got an RM2 last year, and it's been the only product I've ever used a satisfaction guarantee on to return. I was looking to replace paper, which is basically always around my desk in sticky note or free-relator-notepad form. The RM2 didn't have a great way to just give me a blank note right away. It had the quick notes journal, but that was still its own notepad you had to open up. Everything was slow to get to. A…

> The lack of a backlight was surprising

This is common across electronic notepads. The lighting adds a thickness to the screen that would mean the input device would hover over the “paper”, instead of writing directly on it, which would be offputting.

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by eternal_braid »

sylens wrote: post #66

I really want to buy one of these eInk tablets but the thing that holds me back is I want seamless sync of my notes and pdfs with something like OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox - whatever. I don’t want to be constantly emailing myself files

Remarkable has that built in. They offer their own cloud service that makes it trivial to sync your files.

My flow is: 1. (Optional) Upload something on Google drive. 2. Copy it on remarkable. It syncs automatically on cloud. 3. Edit as I wish. 4. Upload final copy to Google Drive

Re: Notes on my Remarkable tablet

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Post by turtlebits »

The RM2 is a great device, but it only does a few things, but does them very well. Notetaking/PDF annotation is excellent. They recently added a type cover and are continually adding text editing features.

Their desktop app and their whole cloud sync is absolute trash. Uploading documents is basic, but it works.

It's a perfect device for a grade schooler, I got one for my wife but my 7yo eventually took it over. It has just enough tech to be able draw, take notes, read e-books/PDFs, and recently, write documents/stories on.

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