ReMarkable Paper Pro

#1

Post by buro9 » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:07 PM UTC

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

#2

Post by ABS » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:16 PM UTC

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 and basically makes indexing and full-text searching impossible (and off device)

And no, "labels" do not address this problem.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

#3

Post by rtpg » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:35 PM UTC

If you have an iPad already you can get screen covers that give your screen a paper feel. Elecom sells them

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

#4

Post by a1o » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:39 PM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #3

If you have an iPad already you can get screen covers that give your screen a paper feel. Elecom sells them

Uhm, like this one https://www.amazon.com/ELECOM-Pencil-Feel-Compatible-Scratch... ?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

#5

Post by ducktective » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:40 PM UTC

Is this suitable for reading technical pdf textbooks (math, programming, etc)? Last I checked the screen size was smaller than A4 and ReMarkable had a focus on writing and taking notes rather than displaying books...

So any suggestions here?

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by itomato » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:40 PM UTC

This video shows an interactive demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uyh6KSYVJ4

I'm particularly interested in refresh latency and color gamut. You can get a feel for these here.

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

#7

Post by heyflyguy » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:41 PM UTC

I love my Remarkable, it forces me to stay in creativity mode without jumping to the internet since it doesn't have a browser. That being said, the inability to simply put your own templates in the machine and have them persist through and update is so close to being a showstopper for me that I am not sure I would consider buying a new one. The RM2 template manager is great, but you have to update your templates after every firmware update and I hate that with a passion!

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by j-pb » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:41 PM UTC

ducktective wrote: post #5

Is this suitable for reading technical pdf textbooks (math, programming, etc)? Last I checked the screen size was smaller than A4 and ReMarkable had a focus on writing and taking notes rather than displaying books... So any suggestions here?

Remarkable is very open source friendly and you can ssh into it from the get go.

I'm really looking forward to installing Zed on this thing!

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

#9

Post by krastanov » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:41 PM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #3

If you have an iPad already you can get screen covers that give your screen a paper feel. Elecom sells them

That is frequently enough, but for a lot of folks who are fans of Remarkable, the preference is based on one or more of these three:

(1) e-ink for both paper-like visual texture (the pixels are not square) and eye comfort (impossible with traditional screens)

(2) single-purpose note-taking without distractions (although some hate that)

(3) paperlike haptic feel (the only thing that can be addressed by screen cover on an ipad)

Re: ReMarkable Paper Pro

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Post by mouse_ » Wed, Sep 04, 2024, 12:41 PM UTC

Not that trash Kaleido faux-color e-ink, very nice.

This may be the first legitimate color e-ink tablet with good (EMR; see: S-Pen, Wacom, old style Thinkpad) pen input.