Does anyone know if this tablet is programmable? If so I would probably want one!
ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
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#92Terrible link, the actual reMarkable website is much better. It's a very niche device but I've owned mine for nearly two years and am a big advocate. In some ways, the first model was proof of concept. Excellent hardware and writing experience, but the early versions of the software were horrible, and the device itself is very ugly. The software has improved dramatically in the time I've owned it, going from horrible…
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#93the only thing i want is a device i can write on that has a refresh rate (or whatever) that's near realtime (so that I don't get the cognitive dissonance from the lag in the line appearing). does such a device exist? i've tried surface and ipad and etc. all of them still have quite noticeable lag when writing.
> does such a device exist? That is the goal of this device. The original Remarkable was superior to the surface and the iPad, and according to their marketing the next one will be twice as fast.
you can see very clearly in the demo video that there is still a very noticeable lag
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#94I'd wish they did a hackable A4 version
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#95What's their portability story? I don't want my personal knowledge store to be locked into a platform, particularly one that's not guaranteed to last. PDF exports don't cut it, my notes are living documents.
I'm really sad that nobody has adequately addressed interoperability in the digital inking space; I'd gladly switch to an iPad or reMarkable, but so far I'm still the neckbeard inking in Xournal on an old Thinkpad.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still hate the idea of not being allowed to buy/sell used books, and the potential to spy on you, which everyone from kindle to Wacom has decided to do. Paper and paper books are just the way to go for now
FWIW you can basically leave a Kindle in airplane mode all the time and copy books over USB. Plus it extends the already great battery life.
Yup, this is what I do. Battery lasts forever. Since I get most of the books off Project Gutenberg, there wouldn't be any slick wifi transfers for me anyway.
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#97Does anyone know if this tablet is programmable? If so I would probably want one!
For the original one at least, yes. The official stuff is at https://remarkable.engineering/ and there are a few Rust projects built around libremarkable https://github.com/canselcik/libremarkable
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#98I've had a Remarkable1 for about three months. It's one of the best investments I've made in a long time. Going to preorder this. Only caveats - I like aftermarket cases more than Remarkable's. I bought one one from Amazon for about 30$. Also I've been using staedtler's digital pencils, works great!
What's the writing resolution like? My problem has always been that I write really small, so most tablets feel pudgy.
I've long thought about getting one of these, but don't want to shell out $500 if I can't comfortably write on it.
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#99Terrible link, the actual reMarkable website is much better. It's a very niche device but I've owned mine for nearly two years and am a big advocate. In some ways, the first model was proof of concept. Excellent hardware and writing experience, but the early versions of the software were horrible, and the device itself is very ugly. The software has improved dramatically in the time I've owned it, going from horrible…
It looks amazing. My concern is that it's around $500. That's about the price of an iPad and Apple pencil. Is it really worth the asking price?
That's up to you, but the drawing experience feels wayyyy better on the remarkable than on the smooth glass of the iPad, from my own experience. It's also far lighter and really does feel paper-y.
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#100I bought the original version but found that some PDF files absolutely destroyed it. Not massive files where each page is a scanned picture, just regular PDFs from academic journals. I'd open one, it would spend 20+ seconds displaying the "working" spinner, then often as not it would reboot . Had to return it. I was also pretty shocked that there was no way to get a list of all annotations you've added to a given PDF…
I have a remarkable and use it for reading academic paper PDFs all the time. The software has gotten far better over time.